7th grade art

7th grade art students are creating Pop Art drawings focusing on the style of artist, Roy Lichtenstein. We started by taking digital images of each student and making a graphite transfer. Since my …

EMS Art on Instagram: “When my 7th grade students started this project I was really scared that it might be too hard for them (@mrs_tfox on TPT for the lesson).…”

This project produced “out of this world” results! (OK, Bad pun, I know!) We began this lesson with 3 days of Galaxy Painting using watercolors. The techniques I taught the kids were loosely titled…

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I gave students 4 pictures of owls printed on a single sheet of paper in black and white. We made 3x3 inch view finders with construction paper and cropped in to one view of an owl eye. They made 3 thumbnail sketches and the students chose their favorite one. Drawing were scaled up on 9X9 brown bogus paper and shaded with black and white colored pencil and a pop of eye color.

Welcome! This blog post features a guided tutorial of how to create a geometric, Bauhaus-inspired paper collage. Prior to beginning, it is helpful to learn more about the Bauhaus art movement. Some of the key characteristics of Bauhaus art includes (1) simple, geometric shapes, (2) basic color schemes, and (3) asymmetrical balance. This activity challenges artists

This is one of my favorite projects to do with Middle School students Materials Needed: 18 Gauge Wire (cut 3 pieces total--2 pieces=18 inches, 1 piece=22 inches) Tape Newspaper Plaster Gauze Black, Green, and Teal acrylic paint Silver, Gold, and Bronze metallic acrylic paint Base- can be wooden, or I have used plastic lids before as well To do this project I first have the students re-visit a lesson on proportion. We use the wooden mannequins to help the students draw out their design. We…

Check out student artwork posted to Artsonia from the 7th grade Surreal Rooms project gallery at Scammon Elementary School.

Grade Level Duration 4 classes, 80 minutes Materials Graph paper (buy or make your own online here), acrylic Paint, ghost grid posterboard (Poster board featuring a faint, disappearing grid), square dowel cut down to make a stamp (same size as the grids on the poster board), printer, pencil, palette Media Acrylic Paint Lesson Objectives For […]