6th Grade Abstract Name Designs

The sixth graders began the year creating an exercise focusing on positive and negative space. The concept is called a Notan. They began with a square piece of paper and created a drawing of their name in bubble or block letters. Then they outlined and filled the letters with black sharpie, these areas represent the positive space. Once their design was done it was time to make it abstract! We cut their design into 16, 2-inch squares that they then rearranged out of order. After they glued the pieces on to background paper, they then filled the negative space (or white areas) with color Sharpie. Here are some examples! You can also follow along daily on our Instagram page, the link is on the panel to the left.

7th Grade Brown Bag Drawings

At the end of last school year I gave my students a survey and asked them for feedback about what I could do differently. I then spent the summer planning new ideas for artwork, subject matter and media. So far the results have been great and I will post some student artwork as they begin to finish their first major unit. For daily updates don't forget to be checking out our Instagram page, it is open to the public, so you don't have to be on IG to see the page: @crms_art

Below are drawing exercises completed by my seventh grade students. They learned about contour lines (and other kinds of lines too), then they were asked to create a contour line drawing of a brown paper bag. They were each given their own bag and could manipulate it how they wanted to, without any majoring ripping. Once the drawing was done in pencil they drew over their lines in Sharpie.

Sarah S.

Nina A.

Gavin B.

Ethan T.

 

Carter K.

Alan R.

Alex R.