September Artsonia Newsletter

Expressions Charter Chat: September 2018 from Jenell Novello

8th Grade Identity Mastery Project

After an intensive Identity Art Unit, students synthesized their thoughts about identity into mural designs that were applied on ceiling tiles. These are display in the classroom. Nice work, class of 2023!

7th grade Interactive Gesture Drawings

7th grade worked with a calendar landscape to create a gesture drawing to interact with the scenery. After drawing the figures, they applied shading techniques using ink to create a visual contrast.

8th Grade Hidden Identity Cube

Identity can be an illusion. The face we wear on a day-to-day basis may be covering up our true identity. Students created 6 optical illusions to symbolize things they hide about their identity and or misconceptions others may have of their identity.

8th Grade Eye-Dentity Projects

8th Grade worked through an eye study and medium practice to create an eye project. The eye design is supposed to represent something that influences them. I love how serious the students took this projects and think they captured influential symbolism quite well!

7th Grade Paperboyo Art Challenge

I stumbled across a Facebook post about a street artist name Paperboyo this summer and fell in love with his work. It wasn't until we were in the beginning stages of figure drawing in class that I decided to incorporate his art into the classroom. I decided to create a Paperboyo Challenge to utilize a block period of 85 minutes.

Each student selected a landscape themed calendar image (Thanks Dollar Tree) and then created a figure silhouette to interact with it. I think the silhouette aspect of the project made drawing gestures a little less intimidating for the kids. I feel like the challenge was a success and it was a great way to gauge skills while inspiring ideas. Check out the results!