Please take a moment and vote for Trent1026. If he wins, our class will get $100 in additional supplies and Trent will receive $50 in a gift card. You can vote daily until Saturday, once per computer per day (you can use your phone, too)! With your help we can win this week!
After missing Artist of the Week last week, I was settled on the fact that we were lucky to have a chance and maybe we would be able to get it again next time. Well, that next time is this week!
Please take a moment and vote for Trent1026. If he wins, our class will get $100 in additional supplies and Trent will receive $50 in a gift card. You can vote daily until Saturday, once per computer per day (you can use your phone, too)! With your help we can win this week!
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Since the first week of school, students have been posting work to our online gallery on Artsonia. Each week, work from around the world is selected as finalists for their weekly online voting competition. This week we have a BCWMS student up for the title for the Photoshop piece he created last week.
Help our class and Dillon win by voting for his work every day starting now! 7th grade studens finished their Photoshop collage portraits to help me get to know them better. I love how colorful the images are now that students filled them with their favorite items. I also really enjoyed the artist statements students wrote to accompany their work. The recurring theme from the statements was how much students liked being able to choose what they wanted to put in their faces and how they also enjoyed using computers.
Photoshop is always a fun tool to use in my room and I am excited when I see the results. You can check out the full class of work on www.artsonia.com/schools/byron1. We just finished our second week of school, which was also our first full week of classes. In that period of nine days, students have created clay bowls and imprinted leaves, made collaborative drawings, and worked with digital cameras and programs.
The evidence of our efforts can be seen on our Artsonia online gallery. So far we have 100 works published with more on the way on Monday. I am really excited about the work that is published and the statements students have written to express what they learned. Friends and family can begin to comment on student work and join fan clubs of our artists to help our ranking in participation. We are currently ranked 5 in the state of Michigan. Items with student art can also be purchased to help our program. For each item bought with a BCWMS artwork on it, our class gets a percentage of the funds. We use these extra monies for supplies, artist visits, and field trips. 7th grade students finished up their patterns on their printing plates before using them to create multiple prints. Students used all kinds of action poses to explore aspects of positive and negative shapes, line, and pattern. Our next class will be spent finishing up prints, learning about how Andy Warhol used printmaking to create multiples, and uploading their final works for display on our Artsonia Gallery. Please make sure to also vote for Addison752 as Artist of the week on Artsonia. He is up against other artists from around the country for this title. We have had two other students nominated this year, but have yet to have any win. If Addison wins he gets a $50 gift card to Blick Arts and our school gets $100. You can vote daily until Saturday night! 7th grade students worked non-stop today to finish uploading their work from the week onto Moodle. In addition to their hallway drawings, where they used 1-point perspective, they also uploaded their pictures of the clay project featured in past posts. It is so nice to see the work, all shining and bright, on display in the library for all to admire. I am hoping we will do our second sculpture project when we return from holiday break (but I am still a few panty hose short from making it happen and need some donations). 8th grade students are still working on their hallway drawings and uploading their clay bottles for a grade. They will finish up on Monday and then move onto making Artist Trading Cards for the March international show in Singapore. Students are using the materials from the DonorsChoose project that was funded through the help of several generous donors! Images of the cards and more work will be shortly finding a home on our online gallery on Artsonia, so keep a lookout for more! 7th and 8th grade students created over 90 works surrounding the topic of Winter or Holiday images to then donate to Railside Assisted Living Center. The images range in media and technique and they are now viewable on our online gallery. Even though students will not be taking this works home to share with their families, they can share them digitally and through the purchase of cards, ornaments, coffee mugs, and more in the Artsonia Gift Shop! Remember that all items purchased help benefit our program to purchase additional equipment and supplies. 1. Vote for Brandon9154 on Artsonia for Artist of the Week. This is the second time we have had a student nominated this year (which is very exciting, since it is only the second month of school). You can vote daily until Sunday when we find out the winner. 2. The DonorsChoose project materials came in today! Inside the box is $250 worth of materials for students to use to create Artist Trading Cards to exchange with schools from other states and countries. So far this year we have traded with Canada, and will be trading with Berlin shortly. Thanks again to the generous donors who help fund this project! The donors who gave to this project are from areas other than Byron Center and prove that there is such a thing as kindness from strangers! 7th and 8th grade students logged onto Moodle today to complete various tasks online. 7th grade students used the links to start an Artsonia webquest and 8th grade students used it to view and respond to a presentation that is getting them ready for their next project with clay. Moodle has become an important tool in the art room to help record and track progress with projects and I look forward to seeing how this new tool will enhance the way students learn and view new information in Art. Students are working on their Photoshop projects in class this week. 7th graders are filling their heads with images that represent them, and 8th graders are using words. Students also were able to support Tucker in the Artsonia Artist of the Week contest by voting for his work! If Tucker wins, our classroom will get $100 in supplied! Please vote daily for Tucker - we will find out the results on Sunday. |
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