GMS 2015-2016 Art Show!

This year's art show was held during our testing week this year! The LRC was closed down which gave me time for set up, as well as time for the work to remain up for students to walk through if they could not attend on opening night.  There was a selfie station set-up which allowed visitors to get goofy, as well as get us on to social media with #GMSartshow. Enjoy the pics below!

What is going on in the art room????

We are wrapping up our 3rd quarter of the year; I can't believe it! Here are some photos of two of the 6th grade projects! Other grades to follow.

6th grade students working on color theory

The beginning of the color wheels with hues of the primary, secondary, tertiary colors plus the tint, tone and shade of each.

A final with the complimentary colors added plus the color wheel itself being transformed into another object at the discretion of the student artist.

6th grade working on stop motion animations (clay characters)

A scene from one of the stop motion films

Photos for the stop motion film being taken with the chromebooks (we use the iPads sometimes as well)

Starting our classroom blog

This is the first post of this year (I know, where have we been!) but so much pressure comes with hosting a blog!  I have decided to just go for it and stop worrying about it...something is better than nothing right? I am going to do some quick summaries of the projects we have accomplished so far this first half of the year in each grade level.  With that stated, I will blog about a different grade level every few days.  Today I will begin with 6th grade!  Let me start by stating that we are currently a one-to-one school in regards to technology.  Our students each have a chromebook and we as teachers have a mac.  This has been amazing but comes with a learning curve as most software we have used in the past are not loaded onto the chromebooks and/or macs....such as moviemaker.  I was not a huge fan of moviemaker but it did work for our stop motion films and we could add sound (most of the time...ha ha!)  This year I had to research and try many apps to see if they would do what I needed them to do for this stop motion animation we would be creating; in the end I settled on the stop motion animator app and iMovie for the sound and editing (more on this later.) Below are some pics of the students working on their stop motions, as well as some of the stop motion animation films themselves!

As you can see, each group had to write the storyline, create the characters out of air-dry clay, draw a background then take the photos in the stop motion app.  We have been (sadly) unsuccessful in getting the videos into iMovie since our school iPads must have something blocked not allowing us to add a prerecorded saved video into iMovie itself which is why the video samples below have no sound:(

8th Grade: Pop Art paper mache large scale sculptures

8th grade has been diligently working on their pop art sculptures! The students worked in table groups and came up with images/objects from popular culture to recreate on a grand scale.  Each sculpture had to also include a mechanical part of sorts. This group created a bottle of Purell and the pump piece actually goes up and down like an actual pump mechanism. Many students chose to go with toys from their early childhood such as the claw machine, xbox one, jack-in-the-box and so on!