Lacy Craig
8th Grade Art
My Art
My art is a variety of colorful, pretty drawings and the other half is more dark, deep, and meaningful. I like to do realistic things sometimes to mix it up but I like to mostly do colorful, random, cute things. I think it fits my personality the most.
Day of the Dead
To represent Dia de los Meurtos, and the dead passing, we drew skulls with different decorations, designs, flowers, and more! We used a variety of techniques and tools. Some used color pencil, markers, or prisma colors, and some shaded, hatched, or stippled.
Interactive Contour
In the interactive contour, we only drew an outline of the drawing. We did not shade or color, it was basically just a final rough draft. Our group, Nick McGrew, Elizabeth Henson, and myself did a person drowning in the water and all you can see is the drowning persons hand and someone helping them get out of the water.
Contour Line Drawing
In our contour line drawings, we had the choice to either draw a tree or a hand. In my case, I chose a tree because I could personally figure more ideas and designs to put on my art then a hand. I did a variety of squiggly lines to straight line to curved lines and more all to make my colorful line drawing come to life.
About TLMS
Three Lakes Middle School
Three Lakeds Middle School is a new school opened in 2015 for 6th, 7th, an d8th graders. We have many varieties of people from, smarts all the way to artistic.The school offers all core classes in on level, pre-ap, and GT. They have helping classes for kids with special needs or disabilities.
Email: lacy.craig@stu.tylerisd.org
Website: http://threelakes.tylerisd.org/
Location: Three Lakes Middle School, Three Lakes Parkway, Tyler, TX, United States
Phone: 9039524400
Twitter: @craiglacy
About Me
I am a 13 year old 8th grade student who loves science and history. I also enjoy drawing and painting in my spare time. That is how I got interested in school art and art club in 5th grade. Art class was mandatory in elementary school and that really helped me learn how to draw shapes, lines, animals, and simple things you need to know to do art. Then, when I was able to, in 5th grade, I joined Art Club which met after school and we did a little bit more advanced projects and things for people who thought of doing art in middle and high school. So, i'm now in 8th grade and I have done art all three years in middles school. Since then , I have learned so many things. I've learned to draw with a grid, how to correctly shade, how to draw things by looking at it, and just key things needed to become an artist. I will most likely do art in high school as an elective, but I plan on focusing on my grades in core classes so I can get a good education, make good grades, do good on all the tests, and get into a good college with scholarships. I would like to thank all of my art teachers over the years for teaching me the ways of art. I thoroughly appreciate them and taking time away from their families just to teach us. Thank you!
Henri Matisse
We have learned about several artist but Henri Matisse really interested me. Henri Matisse was a revolutionary and influential artist in the early 20th century best known for his expressive color and and form of his Fauvist style. He created many paintings and such that the world loved and was amazed by. So he kept creating until he eventually passed on November 3, 1954. Here is some of his art pieces:
Self Portrait
He painted this self portrait in 1906 during his Fauvist phase of him wearing a striped t-shirt. This piece is kept in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
View of Notre Dame
He painted his view of the Notre Dame in 1914. It was not exhibited until after his death, but it helped influenced other painters in other periods.
Cut Paper
He did a series of art which he called cut paper where he basically just cut shapes out and arranged them until they fit to make the perfect art piece.
Contour Line Drawing Tutorial