Metallic Scratch Art

Students recently completed a scratch-art project on silver or gold metallic scratch board. In this example, the student used a reference animal graphic and chose to fill in the sections on the design using intricate patterns and designs. The lesson emphasizes the use of texture shading and using value and contrast to make details easily …
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Op-Art Eggs

Last month, my students completed their Op-Art egg designs.We used a combination of marker and colored-pencil to create interesting color schemes on these pre-printed graphics. The focus was on contrast and blending as well as good shading techniques.

Scratch Art Tiki Face Designs

We recently completed a scratch-art project using Tiki inspired symmetrical faces as subject matter. For this project, I chose to use the largest student-grade scratch material I could find. I believe the sheets were 11×13″. We discussed and practiced symmetrical transfer to create our own Tiki faces. I also made available a set of pre-printed …
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Art Display

For the remainder of the school year, I will be rotating displays of the student artwork in my school’s cafeteria. I save their projects all year so there is quite a bit of it. We used to have a single art show event but that has been displaced due to renovations on my campus.

Op-Art Designs

My students began working on op-art designs this week. The designs are actually pre-printed copies. The activity is centered around applying color to the images. It’s a good opportunity to introduce a new technique or medium. This group is using watercolor pencils. As the designs are printed on regular copy paper, special considerations must be …
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