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We had a very successful first week of school. It was nice to see so many familiar faces from last year, and meet quite a few new ones! This week, in recap: ATCs, ACEOs, and Art in Miniature Students made mini-portfolios to store this semester's artwork. Afterward, we had time to make a few ATCs and then trade them at the end of class. Remember: ATCs & ACEOs are ALWAYS 2-1/2" x 3-1/2". It's the law : )  Explorations in Art (6-9 and 9+) Our first project this week was creating portfolios (medium size!) to store the semester's artwork. Once this was done, each student completed a Color Wheel by filling in the Primary Colors , Secondary Colors , and Teritary Colors . Afterward, students used color paddles to experiment with some good old fashioned Color Theory ! This was all in preparation for next week's lesson on COLOR. We'll be discussing (critiquing, comparing, contrasting) several famous works of art, with the focus being on color. Ceramics I In t...

Before we recount the first week's classes, I'd like to give a virtual "high five" to KYLER S.  Congratulations, Kyler! You correctly identified the mystery photo. You'll receive a real "high five" from me in class!  :) We may not have gotten much done this week, but it was certainly busy! As a refresher for existing students, and a learning experience for new ones, we went over behavior guidelines and introduced ourselves. Old friends happily greeted each other and shared stories about summer activities, and new friendships were made and solidified on the first day of class. It's so nice to be back! In some classes, we discussed the color wheel. We learned about prima ry co lors , secon dary c olors , and tertiary colors. We also talked about value, intensity, hue, shade, tint, warm v. cool colors, etc. In today's post, I've included a variety of color wheels. They come in many different styles, and you may want to try designing your own a...