Mehndi Hand Messages

The 8th grade pen and Ink unit culminated into a sculpture of a hand filled with Mehndi Designs. Students used radials designs and symbols to fill the space on the front and back of a non latex glove, then stuffed with poly and secured onto a base.

When the sculptures were finished they grouped up with  their hands to create inspirational messages using American Sign Language. They created videos of these messages that were sent to Ms. Hanson who is battling breast cancer.

This project was really meaningful for all and something we will definitely incorporate next year!

Aluminum Tooled Bestiary Ornaments

After visiting a local museum earlier this fall, Ms. Shane and I gleaned the idea of making aluminum tooled ornaments. Since we were teaching the kids about medieval Bestiary, we figured we would use some of the most intriguing beasts as subjects for the students to design their relief sculpture. Students could choose a griffin, dragon, unicorn or gargoyle. Once students finished their sculpture, the applied and antiqued stain around the negative space. They are hanging across our ceiling now and are very cool to look at!

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.