Spring Artwork

It is hard to believe that next week marks the beginning of June! Our Midknights have been working hard and I wanted to take this opportunity to share a recent project from each grade level. Enjoy!

8th Grade Self-portrait- Acrylic Painting

1st Row: Natalie, Hailey, Michael & Scott
2nd Row: Liam, Dylan & Grace
3rd Row:Taylor, Melissa, Nate & Sam
4th Row: David & Satti
5th Row: Nilesh, Anish, Kelly & Meena

6th Grade Mandala- Printmaking

7th Grade Animal Zentangle- Pencil & Sharpie

The Digies

Congratulations goes out to eighth grader Hailey Ra for being the first Pittsford student to EVER win a Digie! The Digies are a regional art competition for digitally made artwork. Hailey created a poster using Photoshop and placed second in the grades 7-9 publication category. Great job Hailey! 

Project Description: 

Students learned about historical propaganda posters and contemporary artists who use posters and public art, as a means to communicate their views on particular social issues. They then chose a social issue and researched what imagery would best support their topic. Next they researched or created text that would support their topic, this could be a phrase, word or even a statistic. Using Adobe Photoshop CS6 students created their posters, learning about composition layout, font style, color & size. Common Photoshop tools they used were layers, Type tool, the Magic Wand tool and the Paint Brush tool.

Technical Description: 

Hailey's topic was internet safety. The idea behind their poster demonstrates that you don't really know who you are communicating with on the other side of a computer. The girl has typed "hey katie", but the viewer clearly sees a boys' silhouette. Hailey chose the font to mimic a font you may see when typing or texting, she also chose to have her phrase at the top look "casual" in spelling and grammar for the same reason. Using the Paint Brush tool in Photoshop, the student created the silhouettes of the people and the computer. The text bubbles were appropriated from the internet but had text in them, the student removed the text and added her own messages. The student used the Type tool to add their phrase at the top of the poster.

Hailey after the awards ceremony! 

8th Grade Art Exhibition

For the first time, Calkins Road Middle School and Barker Road Middle School will collaborate to present an 8th Grade Art Exhibition. The exhibition will be held in the BRMS Gymnasium and coincide with the district budget vote on Tuesday, May 19th during the h​ours of 7:00am and 9:00pm. We hope you get the chance to enjoy the exhibition and see the amazing artistic talent we have here in Pittsford! ​

Art Club Drawing Challenge

We are approaching the half way mark of our drawing challenge, hosted by the CRMS Art Club. Students participating in the drawing challenge will create 20 different drawings, based on a word for each school day. We started with 27 artists and as of May 1st, 15 artists have completed every day of the challenge! Remember if you are part of the drawing challenge and have missed a drawing or two, don't give up, you can jump back in at any point. In addition to the fabulous prizes we will have awards for artists who reach certain milestones.

Here are a few examples of the display boards hanging up at CRMS. Enjoy!