Fauvist Painting Rough Drafts w/ Drawcast

By introducing my students to Fauvism, they were able to create a simple piece of art that showcased Complementary Colors and Contour Line

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My Media Arts students get to make too much traditional art, so it was fun getting back into artistic concepts such as color and line. You can see some of my previous posts that utilized Color in the Classroom

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7th graders took a photo of their hand with Drawcast. See some of my other posts that we used Drawcast to make art. They then did a contour sketch of their hand using the foreground layer. Once they had a good outline, they painted the midground with the appropiate color scheme with complementary colors

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I look forward to their final project where hopefully they incorporate monochromatic or analogous color schemes as well

 

Pointillism works 8th grade'12

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My 8th graders recently got done doing a Pointillism project. I at first introduced them to this concept of art and science through Georges Seurat paintings and this awesome Khan Academy video

Post-Impressionism Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884: Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - 1884, 1884-86, oil on canvas, 81-3/4 x 121-1/4 inches / 207.5 x 308.1 cm (The Art Institute of Chicago). In the Google Art project: http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-art-institute-of-chicago/artwo...

After the students got to know a little something about the art style and Impressionism, I had them research a piece of art from that time period and re-create it in a Contour Drawing style

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After they developed a good outline, they started to fill in those shapes in a Pointillism style. By repeatedly tapping with the tip of their marker and/or crayon, they could blend colors together. What I also enjoyed with this was the fact that they had to frequently step away from their work to see how it would look like 10-15 feet away

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