Swansea's 350th Anniversary Art Contest

JCJHS 8th grade art students are busy preparing their artwork for the 350th Anniversary Art Contest.

Theme: Reflection of Swansea's History

Media: Colored Pencils, Markers, Oil Pastels, Paint, Watercolor or Photography can be submitted.

Students are doing research on areas of interest in Swansea that they would like to use for their art. Some general ideas that are being created are Town Flags/Emblem or Crests and Maps.

We all can't wait to see the results! Selected works will be submitted to Administration for judging

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Oil Pastel Animals

Final Tim Burton Character Designs

Very proud of our 8th grade art students on designing an original character in the style of Tim Burton. Research and analysis was conducted on his identity as an artist and film maker. Students used his stylistic qualities to create their own character that would potentially be use

d in a Tim Burton film.

Materials: Watercolor Paper, Watercolor, sharpie

Resources: www.timburton.com, Museum of Modern Art Interactive Gallery

Tim Burton Character Design

Students are getting ready for The Art of Tim Burton Unit - where we will be exploring the art and world of Tim Burton and looking at character design.

Here's a link we will be looking at and examining from the Museum of Modern Art exhibit http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2009/timburton/
and Tim Burton's official site www.timburton.com

  Using Mac Book Minis to explore the work of Burton

 Starting our sketches

Day of the Dead Skulls

Check out our student's progress with Day of the Dead skull designs!
Using clay and paint

Silhouette Value Paintings!

In Progress...Value Study Silhouette Paintings!

Teacher Examples

Lesson Objectives:

Create a painting that uses a value scale with at least 6 different values using tinting and shading.

Students will then use black paint for a silhouette technique that will include a tree and other objects of choice.

Ma Visual Art Frameworks

1.5. Expand repertoire of 2-3 and 3-d techniques, professes and materials

3.5 Create symbolic imagery with personal invention and ideas

1.7 – Use the appropriate vocabulary related to art

4.7 – Maintain sketches and finished work

4.8 – Create and prepare for public displays