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1ST GRADE We begin on the first day with our name clown. It takes weeks, but I have been told that some of our 8th graders still have their name clown from first grade!! They are fun and teach a lot of different skills, drawing, color wheel, collage, facial feature placement, tracing, gluing, cutting, you name it and it's probably in there. A great way to start
2ND GRADE We will be getting messy in our first class, using glue to write our names. Next week, we use these "printing plates" and other textures to to create rubbings.
3RD GRADE We are "stacking" the letters of our name into a huge pyramid on our drawing paper. Then we create patterns in black and white between the letters, while coloring the letters themselves in bright marker colors.
4TH GRADE "Floating names" will be our task in our first art class. We begin by learning to create overlapping bubble letter names and then we begin our coloring and cutting. They are stunning.
5TH GRADE We will be studying triadic colors from the color wheel and using only those colors and patterns to decorate our bubble letter name. Triadic colors are equidistant from each other on the color wheel, red-yellow-blue is an example. We try to mix it up a bit by using our intermediate color choices to make it more fun and to learn.
6TH GRADE "Graffitti name tag" we will be creating our name using the methods of Keith Haring who started out in the New York subway system as a graffiti artist. We are not condoning graffiti, just the creativity. ;-)
7TH GRADE Folded name design, it's a trick and only you know what your design actual "says". Everyone just thinks you are very clever with patterns! HAH! 8TH GRADE We have a choice on this first art project. We are learning about Keith Haring and his graffiti art and we can choose to write our name in a graffiti alphabet or "pierce" our name with some sharp object (drawing only, of course).
Resources for our Tree Book: http://www.ssmartyr.org/Media/45/TreeResource.pdf
SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS:
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Create your own Jackson Pollock pictures online at 
Make your own Mandala online! You can rotate, scale, and more at
Mark Kistler's website allows you to follow along as he teaches 3D.
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