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Geometric Pets

10/2/2019

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Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
These geometric pets each have an extraordinary story and were made without the help of any tools.   
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Geometric Shapes inspired by Frank Stella

9/30/2019

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Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
We're practicing making geometric shapes with simple and precise lines and curves, with the help of a ruler and compass.
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Petite Pumpkins

9/23/2019

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Foothills Christian High School Art Class: 
Students are continuing to practice drawing the contour edges of representational shapes with these little pumpkins. I am so impressed with their drawing skills and  and creative painting choices! 
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Autumn Leaves

9/23/2019

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Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
Students learned how to freehand draw the contour edge of objects with the Trace-Copy-Draw method, then drew and painted these colorful Autumn leaves! Fantastic!
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Automatic Style Drawing & Painting

9/23/2019

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Foothills Christian High School Art Class:
The first drawing assignment the students completed independently was based on Joan Miro's Automatic Style Drawing technique. They randomly drew various types of lines and emphasized a figure with more lines and colors. These are AMAZING!  
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Mom's Night Out - Durer Art Lesson

2/3/2019

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These homeschool moms are amazing! Even on their night off, they want to learn and develop as teachers. They impressed me and inspired me by following my instructions and unleashing their creativity! Well done! Your kids should be proud. By the way, this lesson can be downloaded for FREE at the link below.
Albrecht Durer Art Lesson
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Where the Wild Things...have TEXTURE!

1/13/2017

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We started to a new semester, but we're continuing to build our drawing skills onto last semester's lessons. The new art element is: TEXTURE. 
"Texture is the illusion of a surface quality made by repeating lines, shapes and colors with variety."
Here are some examples of texture in famous artwork. All of them are paintings, except for the rhino, which is an etching. Some words we use to describe texture are: bumpy, rough, wet, cool, soft, furry, fluffy, silky, prickly, fuzzy, grassy, and smooth.
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I had the students carefully observe the texture in the illustrations of "Where the Wild Things are", by Maurice Sendak, while I read the story to them. We practiced making texture with repeating lines and shapes. Then we drew our rumpusing monsters.
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Here's the Step-by-Step lesson with the texture practice page:
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Colorful Chameleons

12/12/2016

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Some students drew representationally by carefully observing a photograph of a chameleon. Others drew a step-by-step chameleon based on Leo Leoni's book: A Color of His Own. Check out this video about how chameleon's change their color:
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Bugs with Pattern & Symmetry

12/12/2016

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We continued our pattern theme by learning how to draw symmetrical abstract bugs with line, shape and color patterns.
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Mini Kandinsky's

12/12/2016

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Pattern is the new art element that we added today in our art lesson. Here's the definition: 
A pattern is a design that repeats lines, shapes and/or colors with the same spacing or similar arrangement.
Students learned how to repeat alternating geometric shapes and colors in a grid pattern with crayons and watercolor.

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  • Home
    • Benefits of Making Art for the Non-Artist: Visual Literacy
    • Art for Project Based Learning
  • DIGITAL ART LESSONS
    • PABLO PICASSO
    • GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
    • GRANDMA MOSES
    • ROY LICHTENSTEIN
    • ANDREW WYETH
    • NORMAN ROCKWELL
    • JOAN MIRO
  • ONLINE COURSE
  • GALLERY
    • FCHS Art Class - 2019-20
    • FCHS Ceramics 2019-20
  • About Me
    • Brook's Story
    • Brook's Art Class Blog