Guest blogger- Emily O'S.

Today in class we were working on Post-Impressionism:pointilism. Although this is not my favorite media it is still fun. My favorite media is clay. I love to make stuff totally your own and hold it, paint it and use it. When I'm not doing clay I'm usually drawing. I love drawing shadows on different flowers . A lot of people on my team have my drawing personalized.

Check out some great color fun!

This site is great. It grabs images from their data base that matches the colors you pick. So you end up with an assortment of phots and illustrations that all match one color. Lots of fun. You've got to try this.

labs.ideeinc.com/multicolour

Guest Blogger: David

When I think of art I see clay and large statues like the Thinker. Also clay is my favorite thing to use in art. Thanks to Parker, I can have one of my favorite things for a period of time and it gives me an Idea of what to make and having a criteria gives me that reason. With out the criteria I wouldnt be able to go into my artistic self. Without it I would draw randomly and not learn how to use multiple art styles and make myself a better artist. That is what art means to me.

Guest Blogger - Kevin O.

The project that I just finished was one of my favorite ones. It was a texture scupture of a bear that is cornered. It was a large bear that has matted hair and against a stone wall. It had three textures: the matted hair, the floor were it's standing and the stone wall behind it . This project describes me the most because the only time I'll ever fight back is if it's my only option.Another project that I worked on is two arches overlaping each other and a pillar in the center. It has two diffrent textures with lines on the arches and jagged holes in the bottom .

Paste Paper Bookmaking 7th Grade

Paste papers are decorated papers with stamped, scraped, dribbled or drawn into textures. These were used by Colonial America as endpapers in books, as a way of simulating the marbled papers of old Europe.
Students in 7th grade Art Studio made paste papers today by mixing art paste with tempera paint. We wet the paper to make the fibers more accepting to the color, then painted this colored mixture onto the paper. We made desgins by scraping and dragging textures through the paint.
Students will use them for endpapers on the books we make and for designs on covers or for bookmarks.

The Festival of Trees- Arts Alive 6th grade

We have been asked to represent our school by producing a tree for the Festival of Trees this coming Saturday. Students in the 6th grade arts alive classes are working together to create a book theme. They are looking up their favorite childrens books on the internet, and copying the covers of these books onto book ornaments. Inside they are letting the reader know why they think this book is great!

They will also be making bookmarks for the tree, decorated with marbled papers and splatter paints. We are looking for donations of childrens books to add to the tree itself, or to place under it. We will be adding a gift certificate to a local bookstore as the centerpoint of the tree.

See you at the festival on Saturday!

Post--Impressionism: Seurat-- 7th grade

Impressionists focused on light and color. But what are Post-Impressionists? They came after the Impressionists anso must be different. But so many of these artists are listed as both. How do they differ?

It's true. The connection between them is strong. Most of the Post-Impressionists were friends with the Impressionists, and like them, loved to play with light and color. The difference is that they thought the Impressionists didn't go far enough. Impressionists were concerned with capturing the moment, looking at reality and interpreting it in terms of the lights and darks. Post-Impressionists went one step farther.

Each of the Post-Impressionists had a different take on where they wanted to go with their art. George Seurat took light and color in a scientific direction. He looked at the latest research that examined how light was reflected or absorbed by a particular color. He combined that information with how the eye sees. He layed dots of different colors next to another, so that the human eye combines them to create a mixture of the colors. Thus, to make a green, he would place a yellow dot next to a blue dot. He still adhered to the Impressionist style of painting with complimentary colors and emphasising lights and shadows, but he did so in a controlled way. He planned his paintings carefully, working out a theme rather than drawing just what he saw. As a result, Seurat's paintings tend to look stiff and calculated, rather than as a glance or an impression.

Students are working on creating a Seurat style scientific drawing by painting with points of color.

just for fun: http://www.ahsd25.k12.il.us/~TriciaFuglestad/VisualArt/flashmovies/whatsthepoint.swf