Kaitlyn Turner
7th grade art.
What we've learned so far...
We have learned many things in the first 2 weeks of art, for example: Line, Shape, Form, Value etc. For Line, we learned about the different types of line ; expressive line, and contour line. For shape, we learned about organic and geometric shapes. For shape and form, we created sculptures inspired by the artist Peter Reginato and Henri Matisse.
One of the more recent lesson we have learned is the culture behind Dia de los Muertos, or day of the dead. We used our prior knowledge of shape, line and form to create drawings of sugar skulls. Some Day of the dead drawings even got into the Tyler Museum of Art. Both 7th and 8th graders drew one square of an alligator together as practice for grid drawings. We gave the alligator drawing to Mr. Kiser in the Library.
The rest of the semester will be on the rest of the remaining elements of art; Texture, Color, and Space.
Peter Reginato
Interactive Contuor drawing.
For this project, we got into groups of two or three to create an interactive drawing. The drawing had to be able to interact with either your foot or your hand. My group chose to draw a hand interacting with spray paint. My job in the group was drawing the hand and pray paint can. When we finished, we took a picture of the drawing with some one behind to make it look like its the hand.
Expressive line
Hand or Tree Contour line project
Dia De Los Muertos ( Day of the dead )
Three Lakes Middle School
Email: KAITRIX9000@gmail.com
Location: Three Lakes Parkway, Tyler, TX, United States
Phone: (432) 254-4137
What Art is to me...
Art is an important part of my life, pretty much everything I do is related to art in some way. I have had my share of problems, and art is what gets me through the day. I love to draw, read, and write short stories and poems; all forms of art. I feel like art is a part of me, like without it I would be nothing. I keep referring to it as "art", but what exactly is art? In my opinion, art is an escape, a way to escape from all the problems of reality ( or point them out) and express one's self. Weather it be singing, dancing, drawing, and even writing, everyone has some sort of artist inside of them. So the answer to the question, " What is art to me?" is art is a part of me. It IS me.
Sorry if it sounds far fetched, but that's how I feel.