Miss Stevens' Art Classroom

I will be holding "studio time" for any students who need extra time or access to supplies to complete their artwork on Thursday March 23, from 3:00-4:30. Remember, grades close on Friday March 31. No late work will be accepted after then.

Just a reminder that there are two extra credit assignments posted on the class instagram page: March Art Drawing Challenge, and Cupcake Drawing. Show the completed work to me by 3/31 for credit! If you don't have Instagram, you can view them via web www.instagram.com/pstevensart

Our class has a wishlist on Amazon :-) Miss Stevens' Art Classroom Amazon Wishlist

Grade 7 and 8 are working on Yarn Paintings based upon Nierikas from the Huichol people. These Nierikas are inspired by Van Gogh's Starry Night. Check out our classtagram page for photos in progress! :-) Grade 6 working on a unit based on the artists Wayne Thiebaud. They currently are finishing oil pastel cake drawings learning about tints and shades and will soon be creating 3D food sculptures. We have a donors choose project active to help us create these sculptures https://www.donorschoose.org/project/pies-pies-pies/2411842/?rf=link-siteshare-2017-02-teacher-teacher_2243040&challengeid=374787

DONORS CHOOSE: I am still missing many Donors Choose permission slips and need them back in as soon as possible! These permission slips allow me to use photos of students using the materials that we have received through DonorsChoose.org  Please see my earlier posts about the permission slips if you have any questions. We have 3 current projects live on Donors Choose. Please consider donating to, and/or sharing the links for our projects on your personal Facebook page! Every dollar helps to achieve our goal. CLASSROOM COLLECTIONS: Our newspaper supply is slowly dwindling, and we would appreciate any old newspapers that you have laying around. In addition to newspapers, I am looking for:  1) clean, old clear plastic liquid containers for water when students paint and use clay. 2) old Legos, and Lego people for stop motion animation 3)Paper Towel/Toilet Paper Rolls   4) Masking Tape 5) Liquid Glue 6) Leftover Yarn 7) ...

If you have not brought in your signed copy of the Donors Choose permission slip, please do so ASAP! We have our first Thank You package due the first week of February. T his is the link to download it in PDF form.

Grade 8 Art Quiz- STUDY GUIDE The midterm quiz will consist of information learned during semester 1 and 2. The test will include short answer, true false, fill in the blank and multiple choice, 20 questions total. Color Theory 1. Definitions: -Primary Colors: Colors that cannot be mixed, they create every other color on the color wheel. Ex: Red, Yellow, and Blue -Secondary Colors: Mixed from equal amounts of two primary colors. Ex: Orange, Violet, Green -Tertiary Colors: Mixed from a primary and secondary color. Hint: Their names tell you which colors it is made of, are mixed from ⅔ one color and ⅓ another. They also contain a hyphen.. Ex: Blue-Green= Blue+Green= Blue+(Blue+Yellow) -Analogous Colors: Colors that are NEXT to each other on the color wheel. -Complementary Colors: Colors that are ACROSS from each other on the color wheel. 2. How to create colors (mixing) -IE: What two colors make Violet? -How would you mix tertiary colors? ___+____+___ I...