Life Map 1

As an introduction to bookmaking you are creating a Life Map in the (originally Chinese) style of an accordion book. The idea behind a Life Map is create a chronological chart of your life using both abstract and concrete images to represent a significant event for each year.

In class we have talked about the different ways that you can illustrate your memories using a variety of techniques (painting, illustration, photo, words, abstract impressions, as well as using cut-paper techniques, stamping, collage, stitching etc.) Based on that discussion you have been asked to do the following:

In Your Development Sketchbook
1. List the years of your life
2. Write a memory/significant event for each year
3. Beside your memory/event sketch an idea of how it can be represented.

Once you have sketched your ideas you should begin to transfer them into the pages of your book using a variety of techniques to really make your Life Map personal and special to you.

Targets 1

Target, Jasper Johns (1974)

Since you have just finished your Archery unit in P.E. we have decided as a group to complete a project in art related to Targets. The three art classes in 6th grade (601, 602 and 603) have each come up with a different approach to this assignment. This project is going to be a mixed-media project and so far we are in the brainstorming phase trying to figure out what message you want to get across in your art pieces and how you are going to accomplish that.

Things that we have decided as a class are:

1. Your targets are not about destroying something. They are about bringing attention to an idea that you each find important.
2. You have also decided to create a larger group piece that each of you make a distinct part of.

Next we are going to start sketching out your ideas and clearly defining how the project needs to be planned and executed in your Development Sketchbooks.

Reproduction 3

Van Gogh, Boats on the Beach of Saintes-Maries

Grade 8, if you have not handed in your Development Sketchbooks (see announcements and calendar) that should be weighing heavily on your mind... Meanwhile, the expectation is for you to have started work on your final piece for the Reproduction assignment.

Grade 8 Studio Work
1. Sketch Paintings should be completed;
2. Transfer your image to the final large paper;
3. Paint!

Periodic Table Final

All 1st Elements should be completed, cropped and ready for mounting. If you are still working on your 1st image, remember that the art room is open during lunch times for you to be able to complete your work. We are compiling the first section of the Periodic Table to display at the Science Fair this coming Friday, December 7.

Grade 7 Studio Work
1. Choose second Element from Periodic Table.
2. Report your choice to me, so that I can record it.
3. Complete a Sketch in your Dev. Sketchbk.
4. Complete a Sketch Painting.
5. Paint Final on 15 x 15 paper.

If You Have Completed Your 2nd Element
1. Start working on your Life Map (see me for details).

Final Fingerprint

Just about everybody has completed their Fingerprint Paintings so, this week we will be getting ready for the Science Fair on Friday by mounting and displaying your art work.

Grade 6 Studio Work
1. Mount artwork;
2. Write Artist's Statement;
3. Complete grading RUBRIC;

In Your Development Sketchbook
Write a reflection about the Fingerprint Paintings describing how this project developed. Remember to connect to Science and what you were learning while doing your Forensics Unit.

Think of these questions when you are writing:
1. What did you know about fingerprints before we started this project?
2. What have you learned about fingerprints since completing this project?
3. What is the single most interesting fact/idea you have discovered while working on this project?