Junior High Art Projects

EXPRESSIVE TREES

After a discussion of art aesthetics, students were free to create their own version of a tree.

Rule: branches must touch the sides and top of the page and all the page must be filled with color.

Junior high students used twigs as brushes and dipped them in black tempera paint to make trees.

(easy clean up!) Oil pastels were used to color in the tree and background.
Mixing and blending colors required, and making gradations encouraged.
Some students took a realistic approach, others a more expressive one.

High School Projects

COLORED PENCIL ABSTRACT CUBISM

Here I used Crayola colored pencils 

to show my high school students how 

to make many gradations in a cubistic style.

PACKING TAPE SCULPTURES

 Packing tape side up, then side down, placed around a form will create impressive

                   sculptures. Inspired by artist Mark Jenkins. This group collaboration required that sculptures                  
                  be placed somewhere on campus or in the community. 

                  Pictured here is a backpack.........................................and figures.