First full week of school and we are super busy! My first hour Ceramics class has finished and dried out their Zentangle slabs and they were firing in the kiln when I left Friday. I loaded that baby Thursday night, got in early Friday, started it at 8 and when I left at 6:30 it was 1580 degrees! I found our Custodian and let him know, he wasn't leaving until later and said he would keep an eye on it for me. So super nice! Fingers crossed that we don't have any blow-outs! So this week, we get to glaze our Zentangle tiles, finish our Coil pots and Intro pinch pots. We had discussed the history of Ceramics and I let the class vote on which culture/time period they would like to explore further for some Art History. Surprisingly, they picked Mesopotamia, Modern and Native American! (I think they just wanted to see if they could spell Mesopotamia!) I can't wait to get in there and open the kiln in the morning!
6th grade students are learning about Linear Perspective this week. We practiced 1-point and 2-point and then I let the students pick which one they liked the best and complete an artwork using our process of horizon line and vanishing points. Here's one in progress.
7th and 8th grade students learned about Still Lifes, skulls and Stippling. (I really want a skull now for my classroom, so ya know, if you have one laying around...) Here is a still life in progress.
I am also working on a painting for our lovely Ms. Janda in the front office. I feel really bad because it's totally overdue but I do appreciate that students get to see their Artist-Teacher working on her art as well! I think it gives me Art Cred with my kiddos.
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