My Art Students!

I've received some requests to show some of the work that my students have created. So, here you go! Again, I teach Middle School, Beginning and Intermediate art. I am really pleased with the quality of work I'm getting from the kids. They get to choose art as an elective instead of being placed in art whether they want to be here or not so I'm sure that helps with the quality. It's my first year teaching middle school and I was really nervous about it at first but these kids are just great! I don't have many discipline problems, the kids are mostly all on task and they hand in their assignments in on time. These could be because of the Korean culture or maybe they are so good because this is basically a private school. Anyway, life is good and I love teaching art! Next year I'm going to get to teach ceramics in a brand new art room along with my other curriculum so then I'll feel like a real art teacher for once!



These pictures are from my beginning art class. In this class I have 6th -8th graders. Mostly 6th graders though. These drawings are done in one-point perspective. They had to draw a room and imagine it being in an unexpected environment then break holes in it and draw that unexpected environment. They did a great job and really enjoyed the assignment.
This assignment, the kids were challenged to draw a landscape with an animal of their choice but to fill in the paper completely with lines. They were also asked to draw their animal in warm tones and the background in cool tones. This one is done by an 8th grader and the lion is done by a 6th grader.


The following art work is produced by my Intermediate Art Classes. The classes mostly consist of 7th and 8th graders. These kids really blow me away sometimes! I don't think I was this good in Middle school! This assignment was the typical value study. Choose a black and white magazine photo, cut 50% out and draw in the other 50% trying to match the values as exactly as possible.


These next pieces are my Intermediate Art classes One-Point Perspective assignments. They had to create an interior, add at least 2 pieces of furniture, a floor treatment, 3 windows, fully color it with a light source indicated as well as creating a surreal collage in the windows. Again, some of these assignments are incredible!



This assignment really kills me! I almost told her not to put the collage on it because the drawing was so incredible. The girl who drew it had never drawn in one-point perspective before and figured out how to draw both the stair case and the vaulted ceiling without my help!