Illuminated Letter

This year we focused our Illuminated Letter project around calligraphy fonts and flourish. The students really ran with these design concepts and the detailing turned out fantastic. So to highlight their detailing we finished the project by adding black glue to outline the border, letter and designed. Black glue leave a raised, glossy finish and it really made the student work pop!

Micrography

The 8th grade class studied pen and ink techniques focusing on texture and value created by ink. For History Day students collaborated on Micrographys which emphasized historical people that made and impact on society.

Chuck Close Portraits

The 7th grade students tackled a scale and proportion unit that included building a scaled model, a scaled Looney Tune project using oil pastel and a self portrait in the style of chuck Close. These pictures show the process by which students are applying line patterns and value to match their original picture to create a portrait.  

Grease Distraction

Mrs. Novello can get distracted easily when teaching dance in Expressions. Too many good endorphins go to my head and I end up getting really silly. Here is an example of my recent dance distraction during an after school dance workshop.

Dream Weavers

 

 

The Collaborative Knitting Unit was a HUGE success and involved not only students, but community members as well to weave each strip together. We contributed 20 stadium sized blankets to Project Linus last week. We are very proud of everyone involved!