Students learned the correct method for slab construction while creating these beautiful name plates. They also learned about the ceramic process from bisque firing to glazing. Great Job!
During this project students learned about graffiti artists who are using their art for a positive social change. They read in Scholastic Art Magazine about the artists Banksy and JR. Students then designed a style of lettering inspired by graffiti. Within the letters of their names students added one of the elements of art. The elements of art are line, color, texture, shape, form, space and value. Can you pick out each element of art in these projects?
Hello! My name is Laynie Callo. I have recently finished my graffiti name design project. Before I began my project, I learned about the graffiti artist known as JR. JR's work represents and shows the effects of poverty of people’s lives. In one of his works, JR painted large murals of women’s faces that lived in poverty on the sides of many run down houses in the slums of Brazil. For my project, I wrote my name in block like lettering and added form to them. I used the elements of art by putting a different element in each letter of my name. The "L" was the element of line. I used many different types of lines to fill the space. The "A" was the element of shape. For that, I used both organic and geometric shapes that formed to one another. The "Y" was the element of color. I used a solid red background and made many ovals that I colored in the order of the rainbow but I skipped red. The "N" was the element of texture. I created the illusion of the texture of hair. To do this I took a thin sharpie and made quick, short, curled lines over lapping each other. For the "I" I used the element of form. The element of form is the use of geometric shapes that are drawn to have a three dimensional effect. I used as many forms as I could fit. The "E" is the element of space. For this I drew a scene of an open field and a small town with a river going into the background. Because my name doesn’t have enough letters for all the elements to have their own letter, I added an exclamation point. The element I used in the exclamation point was the element of value. For this, I drew very hard onto my paper and decreased the pressure on my pencil as I went along. This gave a fading effect. My background was a brick wall which allows my project to pop.
Hello my name is Gynell VanAmburgh. I’m in Mrs. Albright’s 8th grade art class. We have just finished a project where you choose lettering and make it look like graffiti. Then inside of the lettering we put all of the elements of art. For my lettering I chose bubble letters. My favorite letter had the element of line in it. It was my favorite because you can make many different lines. My least favorite element to draw was the element of form because I’m not very good with making things look three dimensional. I put the element of color into the N and put lines to separate the colors. For the element of space I made it look like a road going into the distance. For the element of texture I put curved lines that make it look like it’s over lapping and bumpy. Underneath my letters I put the element of value and made it look like it went from dark to light.
Hello, my name is Marc Melita, I’m in the 8th grade attending the Marlboro Middle School. I really enjoy my art class with Mrs. Albright. The art project I’ve just finished is a graffiti name design. In this project we used our name and made it into graffiti. To begin this project I studied the graffiti artist JR. His artwork really inspired me with my project. JR would go to the poorest towns in the world and enlarge photos of people onto the sides of houses. The design for my letters was fat bubble letters. I chose bubble letters because I liked the way they look. In each of the letters or symbols I would include one of the elements of art. They were line, shape, color, texture, form, space and value. At the end we put splatter paint onto the background paper to make it look like graffiti. I really enjoyed the creation of my graffiti art design.
Hello, my name is Megan Albright and I am one of the art teachers in the Marlboro Middle School. I teach 6th grade art students, two ceramics class and one section of 8th grade art in the Middle School. I love teaching and I'm excited every day by the amazing work my students produce.