We are STILL working hard in the RVMS ArtRoom!

Occasionally on Friday, we spend a few minutes drawing a topic from Illustration Friday 

Then we spend a few minutes sharing art work. It is interesting to see many different solutions to the same prompt.

I have been impressed with students' willingness to share their art work and why they chose to complete the project in that way!

Now that Mother's Day has passed, I can share the colorful flower pottery that the 6th grade completed!

 This was the first time that students had worked with clay and a ceramics project, 

they turned out beautiful! And I hope all of the recipients enjoyed them! 

You want me to talk about WHAT?

Being the Art Teacher is great! 

Normally!

One of the hardest things that I need to teach my students is how to respond to art work with something other than, "That's Cool!"

Using a game often referred to as Token Response students were introduced to a number of famous and not so famous artworks.  They were also given 8 different tokens to place on the artwork. 

Tokens ranged from a heart to represent like, to a dollar sign that represented which artwork they thought would cost the most.

Placing tokens.

Discussing artworks and sharing ideas (Which happened a lot!)

And finally sharing why they made the choices that they did! 

As an introduction to art criticism, these 7th graders did great!