From now on, I'll connect the doys my own way

This is always a fun project. We talked about the artist Roy Lichtenstein and his contribution to Pop Art. We looked at the paintings he did based on panels from old romance and war comics, and talked about taking images out of the context of "low" or "commercial" art and remaking them as as "high" or "fine" art.


Since I'm a huge geek, I have a bunch of old comic books laying around. The kids picked one panel out of a comic and drew it on a large piece of paper. When they colored it, they colored some parts solid, and colored in other areas with big dots, which was supposed to be an exaggeration of the old comic printing process.

They turned out really good. I just realized that all of the pictures I chose to put up are close-ups of faces. It wasn't intentional, but I think, for some reason, that image translates really well for this project. These were created by Hannah, Isaac, Evan, Yady, and Asong. (Click on the title to read some information about Roy Lichtenstein.)

Stunned by my own reflection

These are self-portraits drawn by the 7th and 8th graders. They drew them using the grid method on white paper, then transferred the drawings to black paper.



They then colored them in either a warm or cool color scheme using either colored pencils or oil pastels.



These were made by Tiara, Cedric, Yady, Hannah, and Victoria. Sorry if they look a little weird, but I forgot to take pictures before I hung them up, so I had to photograph them on the wall.

Leaves of Grass

Here is a project recently finished by the first-graders. I asked them to imagine they were standing in a field and suddenly a UFO came down and zapped them with a shrink ray, and they shrunk down so small that the grass seemed huge.



They drew the grass overlapping to give a sense of space


Then we brainstormed and named the different creepy-crawlies they would see down in the grass.


They drew in the bugs and then colored them with crayons. I don't know why, but I can never convince young kids that the sky comes all the way to the ground, and doesn't stop in a line.

These were made by Weilan, Kenneth, Joshua W., and Juviannadean.