Monday, May 29, 2017

Gesture drawings take Form

How do artists use traditional processes to invent a new and expressive style of art?  6th grade students studied movement, form, color, value, and positive and negative space to transform gesture drawings into 3D wire and plaster sculptures.


















Sunday, May 21, 2017

Expressive Portraits: Grade 6

How do artists use color and color scheme to emphasize emotions? Grade 6 students studied complementary, analogous, and monochromatic color schemes to emphasize contrasting emotions and expressions in portraits. The final works are composite two-view portraits.

The Individual Portraits



The portraits cut and combined




The Final works folded for a different-angle-different-expression effect