Ceramic Tiles

RJH art students always look forward to working with clay. A tradition at RJH is to make a ceramic tile. My students had some very creative ideas this year, and I even decided to make one of my own.



Students A - J

Students K - Z

Printmaking

Students spent two weeks learning about printmaking. We watched several YouTube videos about printmaking to understand the different kinds. Students were told they would be creating a relief print with a partner. One partner was required to create a design with curved lines, and the other partner had to create a design with straight lines. Both partners started with a sketch and traced it. The traced drawing was then put face down on a piece of printmaking foam. Last, students used carving tools to flatten the background of the foam to make the design seem raised.



Everyone's design was amazing and beautiful. Great job!!! I am very proud of you!!

Celtic Design

Celtic design is something I stumbled upon in high school and fell in love with it. I wanted students to have an appreciation and knowledge of it. Students were asked to create a design that represented themselves in some way.



Students A through J

Students K through Z

Fauvism

My art students' Fauvism paintings look amazing!!



Students spent one class period learning about Henri Matisse and the Fauvism art movement of the early 1900's. Les Fauves is French for wild beasts. Matisse's and his colleagues' works were deemed wild beasts by an art critic that did not understand their expressive use of color. To find out more about Fauvism go to http://www.sanderhome.com/Fauves/.



A to J

K to Z

Teacher Artwork

We have been painting the last 2-3 weeks and learning about different types of paint. I decided to use left-over paint to create a non-objective artwork. One student said it looked like bananas. I think they look like porcupines. What do you see?

Kristi Bernstein
Porcupines
2008
Acrylic and tempera on paper

Art History Week One

Every Wednesday from now until February, we will have an art history lesson. We will learn five new paintings (artist, title, time period and category) every week until all forty paintings have been learned.

This week we learned the following paintings:

Angelico,The Madonna of Humility, Renaissance, History & Legend

Memling, Portrait of an Old Woman, Renaissance, Portrait

Raphael, Bindo Altoviti, Renaissance, Portrait

Bellini, Saint Jerome Reading, Renaissance, History &Legend

Tintoretto, The Adoration of the Shepherds, Renaissance, History & Legend

Art Criticism

Student spent the past week Nov. 17-21 learning the FOUR steps of art criticism.

STEP 1: DESCRIBING - Size, medium, subject, and describing each element of art

STEP 2: ANALYZING - Noting how the art principles are used to organize the elements of art

STEP 3: INTERPRETING - Determining and explaining the meaning, mood or idea of the work

STEP 4: JUDGING - Making a decision about the work's success and giving reasons for that decision based on one or more of the aesthetic views.

AESTHETIC VIEWS - Subject: Is the subject realistic or not?
Composition: How well did the artist use the principles
and elements of art?
Content: Does the work have a clear message, feeling or
idea?