Autumn Art News-7th Grade

The 7th grade has been working on a unit on value, shading, and still-life drawings.
They have completed a wide variety of pencil renderings of diverse everyday objects and still-life subjects of their choice. To complete these finished pencil renderings, the students used a wide range of values and shading pencils in the creation of a realistic composition from life.

In the next unit, the 7th grade has been working on Sequential Motion and Contour Line Drawing. They have created a series of sequential motion effects in their drawings of living and non-living forms. These drawings give the illusion of animation through the presentation of still frames of motion.

In addition, in this unit of study they have learned about Futurism, a 20th century movement of art and the works of Balla and Marcel Duchamp.

Currently, the 7th grade has been using their knowledge of shading, value, and realism in the creation of a scratchboard design, which has the effect of a metal plate etching. The work of Spanish artist Goya will be explored. Goya was a master of the etching technique, which is similar to the scratchboard medium.

Student examples of still-life, contour line, sequential motion, and scratchboard are displayed throughout the art gallery hallway and showcase at Lakeview throughout the semester.