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Pam Twin's grade 3's Art Card Slideshow

Week of Feb.18

Since we began a  few weeks ago, students have been dealving into projects with a vengeance. The following is a look at some the projects that are happening at the present time.

Grade 9's: Students are working on their line doodles, and once completed, can move on to the collage assignment, then onto a colour blend/silhouette/stencil assignment.

Intro  Cr. Arts: Students are working on line designs and then are moving on to collage and then finally onto to a Ted Harrison style painting.

Developing Cr. Arts: Students began with a line doodle and have been learning about different mixed media techniques, they will be moving onto an Australian Aboriginal dot painting assignment.

Welcome to a new year in the Creative Arts classroom

This semester, I am teaching Intro to Creative Arts and Grade 9 Creative Arts in term 2. Creative Arts classes focus on a variety of different activities with an emphasis on the elements of design and process based creation. We create in a variety of mediums including: watercolour and acrylic painting,stencil design and spray painting, printmaking, collage, paper mache, various clays including regular and polymer clay, and some multimedia work.

Clay, clay and more clay

Students have been busy over the past three weeks working on clay projects. The projects we have been working on include: a pendant or stamp, a dish of some kind, a seashore inspired piece and a choice piece. Students have been working hard and learning lots. As with pretty much everything, the more time put in creating in clay the better one gets. Remember we are working through a process here nad mistakes are allowed. Besides having a few arms go missing from snowmen and an octopus, a few bowls crack and break, we have had a very good season of clay creations. Photos of some finished projects will be posted soon.

After clay, we will continue on with watercolour painting.

Expressions Art Show

Student art from Vanier, Highland and Isfeld is on display at the Muir Gallery in Courtenay all this month. Special credit to Isfeld's Andrea Murphy whose photograph is the basis for the poster and Hannah Mareck who created the poster for the show.

Welcome to Semester 2 Creative Arts

Throughout this semester, we will focus on the Elements of Design. Our first project is a line doodle.

Criteria for this assignment ( marked out of 10)

• need to fill the entire page
• piece should be balanced
• has a focal point
• varies the kind and thickness of lines

 

2011 Grade 11 Clay Projects

Watercolor demo.

Some watercolor leaf and rock
student samples from Creative Arts.