7th grade portraits emphasizing value mixing

Students looked at the hope poster by Shepard Fairey. Students were photographed and the photos were posterized using photoshop touch for the iPad. Students gridded their photo and their watercolor paper. They gridded their photo by using post it notes to block off one square at a time and shading in the values as they go. They then paint their portrait by mixing their greys and painting them on their already shaded drawings.

Upside down fairy tales

8th grade students first practiced upside down drawing with the horse from Betty Edwards right side of the brain. Students then we're asked to select their favorite fairytale. We did a google search for "fairy tale coloring sheets" these cannot be used in competition. They drew their fairytale upside down. We then reviewed colored pencil technique. 

2 point perspective shapes

Hello!

School is about to start up again next week so I wanted to do a little bit of blogging. I wanted to share a lesson that had successful results but was very difficult for my 8th graders.

My students created abstract perspective designs.

The Criteria
-Must contain 15 shapes
must contain 5 shapes with cut outs
Must have one set of repeating shapes

Making a basic cube or rectangle was easy for them. But it took several class periods of teacher lead practice to grasp all of the cut outs.

We used Crayola Neon Colored Pencils.