3rd Annual ERMS Art Show 2014

 The 3rd annual ERMS art show was great!  Many parents and students were able to enjoy and appreciate all the hard work our 6th graders put in this year!  Thanks to all who came to support the arts!!!

Art in the community!

Several 6th grade students from NRMS were selected to have their work displayed at the 10 mile Family Fare in Rockford!  A big "thank you" goes out to The Rogue River Artists Association and Karla Gavin for organizing this awesome opportunity for our students in Rockford!

CUBISM

Cubist Self-Portrait

To begin, we "abstracted" ourselves in the style of Cubism.  Abstraction means we are changing something from reality.  There are many ways in art to "abstract" something.  We changed or abstracted ourselves according to the rules of Cubism: use straight lines and geometric shapes.  Students learned about different phases of Cubism, analytical and synthetic.  The examples here are more of the synthetic style. 

Next we added a background.  Any background was acceptable, anything from an outdoor scene to just patterns or design (wherever you wanted yourself to be).

Then we started adding color.  Students are were able to pick a color scheme if they wanted, or to use color in any way.  Adding collage is a very traditional Cubist technique.  We used newspaper, colored construction paper, and fabric.

We used collage in interesting ways by overlapping it and drawing back on top of it.  A color scheme was also an option, but not required (warm and cool used above).

Lastly, to make it more abstract and interesting, we completed it with many media, turning it into a mixed media piece.  We added pencil, colored pencil, crayon, oil pastel, and marker.

 

Throughout the project, students learned many techniques to add visual variety and interest.  With pencil and colored pencil students heard how to create a value or gradient fade with different pressures.  With crayon, students added texture rubbings to give visual texture.  With oil pastel, students were able to blend colors together.  Finally, with collage where were a number of ways students abstracted their piece like overlapping, using non-traditional items, and drawing back on top of collage.

Featured Artists: Native American Indian Inspired Pottery

 Alex B.

 

 

 Cord N.

 

 

 Chloe B.

 

 

 Lydia K.

 

 

 Lindsey H.

 

 

 Rian I.

 

 

 Callie P.

 

 

 Jocelyn S.

 

 

 Kati M.

 

 

Bailey B.

 

 

 



Personalized Book Covers: The making of an autobiography

Printmaking: Autobiography Cover

For this project, we began by creating some thumbnail sketches to help plan for our final idea.  Making an autobiography cover about yourself can take some time.  There are many parts of life one might want to include, so we brainstormed on paper.  We thought about what we would want people to know about us by looking at our book cover.

 

Once we had an idea, or combination of ideas, for the print, we drew the design into our foam surface creating relief.  Relief is the process of carving into the surface of anything.  The lines that are carved in the surface remain white in the printing process.  All the flat area remaining takes on the color.  The print is a mirror image of the plate.

 

Next, we learned the process to create a quality print (load brayer, ink plate surface, center it on printing paper, rub, peel it off carefully, write name on bottom right, and write proof on bottom left).  Students were given time to create multiple prints.  Being able to print the same picture multiple times is one of the attractive parts of printmaking compared to other medias.  All the prints are "proofs", or ways of testing that the relief lines printed well and testing different colors.

 

 

 

Pinch Pots: A Study of Native American Inidan Culture

Ancient Native American Indian Inspired Pinch Pots

 We began with raw white clay.  Then we wedged the clay, which is the process of getting all the air bubbles out of the clay.  Then we rolled it into a ball.  Next we started a hole with our thumb and began pinching.

We then "pinched" it into the pot shape we wanted.

Next we carved traditional imagery into the wet clay.  Carving into the surface creates RELIEF.  We had many options for the relief such as: animals, symbols, patterns and natural elements.

Then we glazed the pots using common earth tone colors from ancient tribes (red, brown, black white).  Glaze looks much different at first.  When we first put it on, it is nothing like how it will eventually look once it has been fired in the kiln.  At first glaze looks very dull, has a flat finish, and is very pastel.  In the kiln, is goes through a chemical change (science!) where it melts, releases gasses, activates certain chemicals (don't worry, totally non-toxic), and then cools.  When we take them out of the kiln it looks much different!!!

Here are a few examples of some of the finished glazes!

Featured Artists: Radial Color Scheme Painting

 Halle W.

 

 

 Averi N.

 

 

 Jessica S.

 

 

 Carter W.

 

 

 Cashel G.

 

 

 James K.

 

 

 Aoife M.

 

 

 Aden S.

 

 

 Liam W.

 

 

 Victor A.

 

 

 Megan H.

 

 

 Claire D.

 

 

 Derek W.

 

 

 Chloe B.T.

 

 

 Paige J.

 

 

 Sydney Z.

 

 

 Alissa W.

 

 

 Whitney B.

 

 

 Brigitta B.

 

 

Sarah K.