Architectural House Drawings

Every quarter in 7th grade art, we attempt an architecture drawing project. Last quarter, it was castle design. This quarter we went back to the old favorite of ornate, Victorian style homes. Using Deep Space Sparkle's Architecture Made Easy template drawing directions, we cruised through the beginning part of this work (I was gone the day the students started this and I came back to amazing results!).

Color was added with a pastel chalk graded background, and a water-based marker bleeding technique was used for inside the house. Colored Sharpies added a punch in areas too small for the bleeding technique.

Glue and Pastel Landscapes

Landscapes are one of our favorite projects in 7th grade, especially when we use take a more abstract approach when creating them. 

This project was based off a popular method we've used here. However, this time we used both oil pastel and chalk pastel and the results were dramatic. Before the pastel goes on, we outline our landscape drawings with glue to create a fluid and bold outline. The glue dries black (since we use black construction paper) and very bold.

A couple of students discovered a new method of striping the oil pastel and then pulling the pastel down to create chevron like pattern.

Project updates- Zentangle Still Life

Zentangle Still Lifes

What a successful project! We used Sharpie for our Zentangle backgrounds and chalk pastel for our still lifes. Focus was on variety of pattern as well as varied line thickness and value blending. At the beginning of the lesson, the still life image was projected on screen to allow for large classes to view it in detail. We also saved the image on our Edmodo class page for easy access anytime!

Cubist Still Life

Broken mirrors? No, Cubist art!

We divided our paper with 5-6 lines to create a spilt background. By looking at a still life projected onto the screen, we were able to create a series of objects that "shift" when they overlap a line. Crayon and pastels add explosive color. Well done 8th graders!