Friday, February 25, 2011

A review of 8th grade projects

Better late than never! We made some pretty sweet projects 2nd quarter in 8th grade but I never got them up on the blog.

Below are our Paper Mache Animal Trophies, Pen Doodles and our Ceramic Shoes.

The Animal Trophies were a blast! Each student create their own armature out of newspaper and masking tape (we spent some time looking at this site of amazing paper mache animals . Two layers of paper mache later, we had some funky animal trophies. Our final coat of paper was either sheet music, scrapbook paper or tissue paper. We applied an acrylic glaze on top to seal all the paper layers. 

BMS Shoes- Designers shoes at not-so designer prices!
These shoes were made with red clay and some creativity. Students used their own feet as patterns to create a clay sole first and then used a slab method to build the sides and deatils.

Pen Doodles- Every quarter, as an on-going project, students are expected to create a doodle drawing using the entire amount of ink in one ball-point ink pen. This quarter's results were fantastic!









Monday, February 14, 2011

Sumi-e kites and Animal molas

Here is a look at our first projects displayed in the school. Great job 7th grade! Landscapes coming soon!








Wednesday, February 2, 2011

What we have been working on...

Here is the run down of our first two projects this quarter. Photos of the finished work will be coming soon!

Sumi-e Ink Painting



Animal Molas and Color Schemes