7th/8th Grade Art

Monday 2 – 6

• Monday: 
  • Finish Decorating your Portfolio instead of Sketch 
  • Tessellation Lesson 
• Tuesday-Friday: Start Decorating Classroom Doors this week.
  • Brainstorm door designs with your group. 
  • Make a list of supplies.
  • Decorate Door – When you finish your door this week rotate to Tessellation Project.

Monday 9 -13

• Finish Tessellation Project 1
• Continue Wood Art Christmas Projects 1,2,3
  • Scrabble Tiles
  • Rustic Woodland Scene using “Paint Dragging” Technique on Wood Slice
  • Mini Christmas Ornament
• Tessellation Art Vocabulary Assignment 12/13
• Mount your “Leaf Rubbings”by 12/6

Monday 16 – 20

• Sketch Warm-Ups 2.17-2.21
• Weekly Lesson – Impressionism
  • Design/Sketch/Draw a winter scene using the concept of  “Appropriation Art”, by borrowing Van Gogh’s Starry Night and incorporating it in the background. 
  • After you have sketched it out, paint your design on Canvas
• Impressionism and Appropriation Art Vocabulary Assignment Due by 12/19
• Mount your Snowflake Sketch (2.17) – Due by 12/19

 Disclaimer: Weekly lesson plans may change or be modified based on student progress on any given day.

7th/8th Grade Art

Monday 4 – Friday 8

• Sketch Warm-Ups 2.5-2.7
• Lesson on Wood Art
  • Wood Carving, Wood Etching, Wood Painting, Wood Pyrography
  • Wood Painting Project 1
  • Wood Painting Project 2
• Wood Art Vocabulary Assignment due.
• Mount your “Leaf/Tree Series” on Black Mounting Paper

*** Remember to begin collecting leaves for our next project.***

Remember NO SCHOOL on MONDAY 11th

Monday 11 – 15 

• Sketch Warm-Ups 2.7-2.10
• Continue Wood Art
  • Wood Painting Project 3
  • Wood Painting Project 4
• History of Wood Carving Assignment due.
• Mount your “Woodland Scene” on Black Mounting Paper

*** Remember to begin collecting leaves for our next project.***

Monday 18 – 22

• Sketch Warm-Ups 2.10-2.13
• Weekly Lesson/Project – Leaf Art & Thankful Tree Project
• Lesson – Working with leafs as your canvas.
  • Draw/Paint your design on your leaf.
  • Leaf Stenciling and Leaf Observation Paintings
  • Assemble a Thankful Tree using limbs
  • The Study of Leaves as Symbolism in Historic/Nineteenth Century Art Vocabulary Assignment

Thanksgiving BREAK! November 25 – 29th!  ENJOY!

 Disclaimer: Weekly lesson plans may change or be modified based on student progress on any given day.