8thGradeArt; Elements & Principles of Design

• Read pages 1-11 in our textbook.
• Mon 8/26- in class, look for examples of ways you can demonstrate each of the elements of design in magazines and glue & label them in your "SmashBooks."
• Due Tues 8/27- Check Your Understanding Questions 1-5 on page 5
• Tues & Wed Read/Discuss/Notes on the Principles of Design (PP.8-11)
• Due Thurs 8/29- Check for Understanding Questions 1-5 p.11

YRBK; Ad Design Concept

Module 23; Advertising
Think you could come up with your own logo/trademark/brand?
Try using Photoshop or Correl Draw to design an image for a fictional company.
Then, turn it into a faux yearbook ad! Tentative deadline; Fri Sept 6, 2013

Aesthetic Scan

Click here to open as Google-Doc

Art Notes

Click here to open Art Notes Form as a Google-Doc

General Artwork Self-Critique

Especially valuable for extra-credit & Independent-Study students!

Click on the picture above to open it as a Google Doc.

PAINT: Due Dates

• Sketchbooks; hand sketch Mon 8/26

• Quiz; Hyperrealism notes Wed 8/29

• Painting; Macro Hyperrealistic Watercolor Thurs 8/30

PAINT: First Painting, Hyperrealism

Create a Macro Hyperrealistic Watercolor painting of a small object like some keys, a ring, or a pair of glasses. 

Follow these steps:

1) choose object

2) practice drawing at least 3X in your sketchbook

3) choose the best composition

4) lightly draw the outlines on a piece of watercolor paper

5) carefully paint only the background space

6) finally, paint your subject

PAINTING NOTES- Hyperrealism

• Photorealism, 1960s/70's
• Rebelled against abstract art of the 50's and conceptual art of the 50's&60's (abstract expressionism, formalism, minimalism, op art, & pop art)
• Straight forward, objective, mundane, banal, genre, every-day-life

• Hyperrealism, 1990's/2000's
• Socially Conscious, culture/politics/issues
• Emotive; Invocative/Evocative/Provocative
• Encourages viewrs to become voyeurs on situations that may make them feel uncomfortable

Hyperrealists Painters

• Audrey Flack (b.1931)
• Chuck Close (b.1940)
• Richard Estes (b.1936)
• Denis Peterson (b.1945)
• Gottried Helnwein

Hyperrealists Sculptors

• Ron Mueck (b.1958)
• Duane Hanson (1925-1996)

PAINTING- "Pre-Test"Sketch

In your sketchbook: DUE Mon Aug 26-
Draw a picture of your hand as Photorealistically as you can. Use whatever (dry) media you'd like.

DRAWING- Pre Instructional Drawings

DUE Mon Aug. 28

1. A Person (whole figure)
2. A Face (other than your own)
3. A Chair (ANY chair)
4. A Self-Portrait (your own face)
5. A Hand

8th Grade Art- First Assignment

CERAMICS - finally!

They aren't ALL done, but I am finally getting some done each day.

Boyer Valley | Send us your pictures! THE ARCHIVE YEARBOOK

Hey Bulldogs,

The 'Archive' 2013-14 Yearbook needs YOUR help.

We want to make this the best yearbook ever and we want to include every Bulldog in it.

But we (the YrBk Staff) can't be everywhere- so we're inviting you to send in YOUR pictures of the upcoming school year. Clubs, Sports, Daily Life as a Bulldog.

Join ReplayIt.com for free and upload your pictures of life at Boyer valley as soon as you take them! Then order a yearbook and you'll get a digital time capsule of your year too.

RePlayIt also has a FREE app, so that you can upload your pictures to us straight from you phone! 

Click here for Android      -or-     Click here for iPhone

If  ReplayIt's not for you, PLEASE send us any pictures that you take ANYWAY.

PLEASE let you Coaches, Sponsors/Advisors & your Parents & Friends know that we need THEIR pictures too !

• Join RePlayIt.com (see reverse side of this flyer)
• Email them to malloryt@boyer-valley.k12.ia.us
• Bring your camera, memory card, flash drive, or CD to the Art Room for a quick download.

See you next week. Help us make it the best yearbook ever. Make it the best year ever!