Portrait Collage Collaborations - Using Math for Proportions

For the last 2 weeks, the high school art classes (beginning and advanced) have been working on creating an enlarged portrait of a well known individual.  Students selected one or two 1 inch grids from the cut up portrait.  Students then used gridding, proportions and ratios to recreate their 1 inch grid onto a 12 inch by 12 inch sheet of paper.  Students broke their grid down into smaller units and then transfered those units onto the larger 12 inch sheet of drawing paper.  Once gridded, students transfered the lines, shapes and values over to their drawing paper.

This week, students in each art class began assembling their enlarged portrait revealing who their class was drawing. Once their drawing was assembled, it was ready to hang and display around the school.  Each class had to develop a plan for the location of their portrait.  Each class had responsibilities divided up among themselves as to who would get permission to have it hung, who would mount the ladder, who would measure out the string to suspend it, who would spot or measure the location to make sure it hung true and level, etc. Students teamed up, divided up the tasks and got 'er done.  Enjoy.

Starting to assemble the individual grid drawings

Who's it gonna be???

Edgar Alan Poe...create the portrait nevermore

Hey, Mr. Robinson

I once caught a fish, this big

When in doubt, let a girl do it

Ms. Monroe hangin around

M. Monroe

 



J. Robinson

Climax Springs students experience clay

I regret to note that my last post was in December, but I am finally getting new student work to post.  I will be adding updates to some past assignments as well as adding new work too.
Below you will find our Climax Springs art students working with clay.  Yes, actual clay.  For some, this is thier first time, for others it has been awhile since they have worked with this wonderful material.
I am introducing students to the various forms of hand building (pinch, coil, slab) as well as introducing my high school students to the pottery wheel.

6th grade students starting slab robot jars

 



 

 

High school students throwing on the wheel for the first time

Dakota starting his opening

Dakota pulling his wall

Paul centering

Seth adding water to his centered clay

Seth starting his opening

Seth checking how deep his bottom is with a needle tool

 Every high school students will have an opportunity to work on the wheel for about 3 days in a row.  Students also have additional opportunities to work on the wheel during some open time such as before school, during lunch, during Pride Time and after school.  All of the high school students begin with 1 pound blocks of clay and as they master throwing, they can graduate to larger portions of clay.

 

 

7th grade students working on pinch pot animal rattles

 

What do you call an elephant on it's back?  Not finished.

Someone's shy.

Ta Da...it's a penguin.