7th Grade: Your homework is to finish the contour drawing of your self-portrait on the gridded paper. Bring this back completed on Monday. On Monday we will be transferring to the transparencies, adding descripitve and expressive lines, and I will also be doing a marbleization demonstration.

8th Grade: Your name deisgns will be due at the beginning of class next Wednesday, so next Tuesday will be your last class work day. Check the rubric for requirements.

6th Grade: Today we will finish drawing our landscapes, and I will do an ink technique demonstration. If not finished by the end of class, your homework will be to finish your drawing on the final paper provided. Monday we will finish addign detail in sharpie and will begin painting with watercolors.

If you have still not returned your syllabus, please do so as soon as possible!

7th: We finished our leopard drawings today and turned them in. I also demonstrated how to grid your photographs and paper, which we will do first thing tomorrow. We will also discuss requirements for the new project/unit on self-portraiture. I am looking forward to it!

8th: We had a discussion on aesthetics today, while looking at Power Points of graffiti images. You turned in your brainstorming and your one sentence definition of art. If anyone did not finish, then it is homework. Also, be thinking about what you want your school appropriate tag to be (either your name, something that communicates a quality of yours, or some kind of positive or neutral message).

6th: We finished our leopard drawings today and began our discussion on 1 point perspective and the element of space in artwork. Tomorrow we will continue learning about perspective and will draw out our landscapes in 1 pt. perspective.

Please remember your homework for tonight, which is to read and have parents read the syllabus and fill out the bottom portion of the second page to return, to check the blog (you’re here!- see below for extra credit…), and to come prepared to class with 2 pencils with erasers, your agenda, and your behavior card.

Parents: Please look over the wish list that was sent home with students (and is also available as a page on my blog) too see if you have any materials that you could donate to the art room. As always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Students are responsible for knowing all due dates, the class agenda, and copying the daily vocabulary word and definition. If absent, or if part of class was missed, you will need to click on the daily PowerPoint link to view all of these items. It will look like this: 3.15, and will typically be at the top of the post. It is saved in PDF version, so all should be able to open it on home computers, but if you have any problems please let me know. There will also be a printed version of the PowerPoint in the classroom in the orange make-up work binder.

Extra Credit: Since you did your homework and visited the blog, for 5 extra credit points,  please write on the back of the portion of your syllabus that you’re returning (the part your parents filled out) this sentence :I Visited the Blog.

Hope everyone has a wonderful evening and I will see you tomorrow!!!

Today is Early Release, so students only attend first hour connections.

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This is the last week of the quarter, so all loose ends need to be tied up before the end of the week. If you would like to recieve any credit for past due projects, turn them in before Friday. Your new connections schedule starts next Monday.

You will still have a participation grade for this week, along with a project grade for teh work you are doing in class: 8th Reflective Glass Drawings, 7th Perspectvie Dream Homes, 6th One Point Perspective Landscapes and 3-D Name Designs.

7th: Nonobjective compositions should now be turned in and we are continuing on with perspective drawing tomorrow. Bring pencils and erasers!

8th: Name deisgns are now homework- due on Friday. Finish coloring/shadign design and answer self-reflection questions on the back of your rubric before turning in.

1.What is your definition of art? 2.How does your graffiti design fit your definition of art? 3.Describe the theme/tag that you used. 4.What did you do well? 5.What could be improved?

We are beginning an unit on drawing and shading from observation tomorrow. Bring pencils!

6th: Nature resists should all be turned in. We are now working on 1-pt perspectvie drawings and watercolor paintings.

Due to the switch to an early release schedule, you only went to first hour connections classes. That means that everything is pushed back one day.

7th Grade: We will finish critiquing and start perspective drawing upon your return.

8th: 8-2 will have one more work day for name designs. 8-1 they are now homework if not yet finished. We will start a new project upon your return, dealing with light and shadow in a natural environment.

6th: We will continue with the 1-pt perspective drawings/watercolor paintings upon return.

7th Grade: Today is your last day to paint your nonobjective compositions. Tomorrow we will have a critique and then move on to a discussion of and not-taking on drawing in perspective.

8th: Tomorrow is your last in-class work day for graffiti name designs. If not finished in class, they will be homework for Friday.

6th: Nature resists will be turned in today, mounted along with your final haiku. We will then begin perspective drawings and paintings in watercolor, and then 3-D letter name designs.