Eighth Grade
August 30th- First day of class. Test on Color Wheel. Making corrections on
color wheel. Discussing tertiary colors. Covering the principles and
elements of design as seen in still-life on center talble. Then drawing
still-life.
Sept. 6th- Discussing nonobjective and representational art. Showing
examples. Looking at different styles of painting/art ie portraits, self-
portrait, landscapes, abstract, still-life and genre. Test on styles using
mini hallway museum.
2nd trimester
Nov. 15th Finishing colour theroy project. Nov. 22nd Starting making santa's
workshop gifts. We will spend the next three weeks creating items for sale as
fundraiser for 8th grade DC trip. Dec.21st-Jan. 2nd. Christmas break.
Jan.3rd Discussing Jackson Pollock and his art. Creating our own Jackson
Pollock. Should take two weeks to complete. Jan. 3rd starting on Jackson
Pollock. First the home work
assigment Due Jan.24th. Print out of their favorite Jackson Pollock painting
alone with a paragraph
describing the feelings evoke by the painting. Jan. 3rd watching a video on
Jackson Pollock. Jan.10th
practicing dripping paint for our final painting inspired by Jackson
Pollock. Jan. 17th paintin final.
Jan. 24th Homework due and quiz on Jackson Pollock. Students will use notes
taken in class. Jan.31
Presenting paintings with favorite painting of Jackson Pollock. Jan. 31st
Jackson Pollock quiz and presentations of Pollock inspired drip painting.
Feb. 14th Drawing still-life in pencil. Then creating into a multi meduim
composition. Feb.28th Video on perspective.