Week 18 Dec. 22-23

Basic Art

Mon. - Continue working on your Piet Mondrian paintings. Forget glazing until after break. (no demonstration)
Tue. - same
Wed. Thu. Fri. - Christmas break!!!


Art 8

Mon. - Leaning Tower of Pisa presentation. Continue working on scratch art.
Tue. - Scratch art
Wed. Thu. Fri. - Christmas break!!!


Crafts

Mon. - Wooden Figures. If finished then experiment with some sand art.
Tue. - same
Wed. Thu. Fri. - Christmas break!!!


Painting

Mon. - Continue oil painting (cityscape)
Tue. - same
Wed. Thu. Fri. - Christmas break!!!

Week 17 Dec. 15 - 19

Basic Art

Mon. - Piet Mondrian Paintings. Demonstrate the quick process of taping, cutting and painting.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Paintings due and start to glaze. Glaze demonstration is due today!


Art 8

Mon. - Sculpture Presentations/Scratch Art demonstration.
Tue. - same/work on scratch art project
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Last day for sculpture presentations.


Crafts

Mon. - Wooden Christmas Figures - design, cut, woodburn (optional), then paint and hang
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Wooden projects due today.


Painting

Mon. - Final oil painting (cityscape)
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same

Week 16 DEC. 8 - 12

Basic Art

Mon. - Give objective of projects before Christmas. Students must glaze their clay masks and complete their Piet Mondrian Paintings before Christmas. Piet Mondrian Lesson for Period 7.
Tue. - Work on Piet Projects
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Art 8

Mon. - Students will continue working on their popsicle stick sculptures.
Tue. - Pyramids and Empire State Building presentations.
Wed. - Stonehenge and Washington Monument Presentations
Thu. - Student presentations
Fri. - same


Crafts

Mon. - Glass Sandblasting
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Painting

Mon. - Continue and finish Oil painting practice canvas
Tue. - Start Final Oil Painting
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same

Week 15 Dec. 1- 5

Basic Art

Mon. - NO SCHOOL
Tue. - Continue working on self-portraits and clay masks. When finished, design your own Piet Mondrian composition.
Wed. - Review for test. Continue on projects.
Thu. - TEST! When finished, continue on projects.
Fri. - Self-Portraits and clay masks are due today at the end of the period.


Art 8

Mon. - NO SCHOOL
Tue. - Continue working on popsicle stick sculptures.
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same Remind students of the project presentations and papers due next week.


Crafts

Mon. - NO SCHOOL
Tue. - Students should have their glass brought to class to start project. They can start taping and sketching after teacher demonstration.
Wed. - Tape and draw their design on the glass.
Thu. - same
Fri. - Start cutting out their design to be sandblasted.


Painting

Mon. - NO SCHOOL
Tue. - Continue working on your oil painting practice canvas.
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Oil painting practice paintings due today!

Week 14 Nov. 24 - 26

Basic Art

Mon. - Continue working on self-portrait and clay masks. When finished, you will work on the Piet Mondrian Project.
Tue. - Same
Wed. - Same
Thu. - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Fri. - THANKSGIVING BREAK


Art 8

Mon. - Continue working on popsicle stick sculptures.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Fri. - THANKSGIVING BREAK


Crafts

Mon. - Continue working on paper wreaths with fall colored leaves. Add a bow.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Fri. - THANKSGIVING BREAK


Painting

Mon. - Work on oil painting introduction project.
Tue. - same
Wed. - Finish oil painting introduction project.
Thu. - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Fri. - THANKSGIVING BREAK

Week 13 - Nov. 17-21

Basic Art

Mon. - Continue working on self-portraits and clay masks. Any extra credit will be in the form of a small clay sculpture with a Christmas theme.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Art 8

Mon. - Continue working on your popsicle stick sculptures. Be researching on your own time for your paper on your particular sculpture.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Crafts

Mon. - Continue working on your paper wreaths with fall colored leaves.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Painting

Mon. - Research oil paintings and cityscapes. If research is completed then you can sketch your composition on your canvas with teachers permission. If not finished with your landscape, then finish it!
Tue. - Go over strategies and techniques of oil painting with class. Continue cityscape prep.
Wed. - Work on cityscape or finish landscape
Thu. - same
Fri. - same

Week 12 - Nov. 10 - 14

Basic Art

Mon. - Continue working on self-portraits and clay masks
Tue. - same
Wed. - same When finished with one project, move on to the next.
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Art 8

Mon. - Continue working on popsicle stick sculptures.
Tue. - Remind students of the research paper.
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Crafts

Mon. - Continue working on felt turkeys.
Tue. - same
Wed. - Felt turkey project due today!
Thu. - Start new project. We will be making fall wreaths with fall colored leaves (paper)
Fri. - Start assembling wreath and cutting out leaves.


Painting

Mon. - Continue working on landscape paintings. All should be close to finishing paintings.
Tue. - Perspective Lesson for cityscape with oil paint.
Wed. - Finish landscape painting. Research ideas for oil painting.
Thu. - same. Start oil painting if ready.
Fri. - Landscape paintings due today! Start oil painting.

Week 11 - Nov. 3 -7

Basic Art

Mon. - Continue working on self-portraits and clay masks
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Art 8

Mon. - Continue working on popsicle stick sculptures.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Introduce the second part of this project, which is a research paper on their particular building/sculpture. Paper must be at least 3 pages long and must include visuals.


Crafts

Mon. - Introduce new project for the Thanksgiving season. Students will create turkeys using felt. The projects functionality will be for decorative purposes only.
Tue. - Continue working on turkey project.
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Painting

Mon. - Students will continue working on their landscape paintings. All students should be working on the foreground of their landscapes.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Deadline for landscape painting. Projects due today!

Week 10 - Oct. 27 - 31

Basic Art

Mon. - Continue working on self-portraits and exaggerated clay masks. Today is the late deadline for the stippling hands project
Tue. - Same
Wed. - All students should be starting to add charcoal to their portraits.
Thu. - same
Fri. - same


Art 8

Mon. - Continue working on popsicle stick architecture
Tue. - LAST DAY FOR 8TH GRADE (1st marking period) EVERTHING DUE TODAY!
Wed. - New Class. Go over rules and expectations, seating chart and project synopsis.
Thu. - Project 1 - Popsicle Stick Architecture. Class discussion and vocab.
Fri. - Start Sculpting


Crafts

Mon. - Continue working on pumpkin relief carving
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Pumpkin Carvings due today.


Painting

Mon. - Continue working on Landscape Painting. All students should be working on the middle ground of their landscapes.
Tue. - same
Wed. - All should be starting the foreground of their landscapes.
Thu. - same
Fri. - same

Week 9 Oct. 20 - 24

Basic Art

Mon. - Stippling Hands Collage due at the end of the period. When finished, matte them and post them on the bulletin board.
Tue. - Finish matting drawings.
Wed. - Portrait Lesson
Thu. - Clay demonstration and vocabulary.
Fri. - Students start sculpting faces.


Art 8

Mon. - Popsicle Stick Sculpture
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - same
Fri. - same, Late deadline for scratch art.


Crafts

Mon. - Continue working on wooden pumpkin signs
Tue. - Wooden pumpkin signs due today
Wed. - Carve live pumpkins. Find template first!
Thu. - carve pumpkins
Fri. - same


Painting

Mon. - Landscape painting. finish entire background before painting the middle-ground
Tue. - Landscape. start middle-ground
Wed. - middle-ground
Thu. - same
Fri. - start painting the foreground of your landscape painting

Week 8 - Oct. 13 - 17

Basic Art

Mon. - In-Service
Tue. - Stippling Hands Collage
Wed. - Same
Thu. - WINDOW PAINTING (I will not be in school. Continue stippling)
Fri. - Stippling Hands Collage


Art 8

Mon. - In-Service
Tue. - Glaze Fire, work on Scratch Art project
Wed. - Same
Thu. - WINDOW PAINTING (I will not be in school. Continue working on scratch art)
Fri. - Stippling Hands


Crafts

Mon. - In-service
Tue. - Wooden Pumpkins
Wed. - Same
Thu. - WINDOW PAINTING (I will not be in school. Continue working on wooden pumpkins.)
Fri. - Wooden Pumpkins due today! Bring real pumpkin in to carve!


Painting

Mon. - In-service
Tue. - Finish Planet Mural. Start landscape painting (background)
Wed. - same
Thu. - WINDOW PAINTING (I will not be in school. Continue working on landscape painting)
Fri. - Landscape Painting

Week 7 Oct. 6 - 10

Basic Art

Mon. - Stippling Hands project
Tue. - Same
Wed. - Same
Thu. - Same
Fri. - Same

Art 8

Mon. - Students should be working on their scratch art project. I will fire the kiln today for their clay projects.
Tue. - Scratch Art
Wed. - Unload kiln. Students will get a glazing introduction and they will start to glaze their clay projects. When finished they will return to working on their scratch art.
Thu. - Finish glazing. Scratch Art
Fri. - Continue on scratch art project.

Crafts

Mon. - Continue working on the scarecrow project
Tue. - Same
Wed. - If finished, they can start working on their wooden pumpkin design.
Thu. - Scarecrow project due today!
Fri. - Wooden Pumpkins

Painting

Mon. - Planet Mural
Tue. - Planet Mural
Wed. - If finished with planet mural, then work on landscape painting research.
Thu. - Same
Fri. - Finish Planet Mural

Week 6 - Sept. 29 - Oct. 3

Basic Art

Mon. - Introduction to new project "Stippling Hands Collage"
Tue. - work on stippling project
Wed. Thu. - stippling project
Fri. - Late deadline for window drawings.

Art 8

Mon. - Students will continue to work on their clay relief carving. When finished, they will make a pinch pot.
Tue. - same
Wed. - same
Thu. - If finished, they will start working on scratch art.
Fri. - Clay relief project due today! Scratch art when finished.

Crafts

Mon. - Extra day to work on birdhouse, because of assembly last friday. Due today!
Tue. - Start new project - Burlap Scarecrow Project, construct armature
Wed. - Scarecrow
Thu. - same
Fri. - same + late deadline for birdhouse project.

Painting

Mon. - If not finished with color triangle, then work on it. The rest of the class will start prep. for the planet mural.
Tue. - same
Wed. same
Thu. - same
Fri. - Late deadline for color triangle. All should be working on planet mural.

Week 5 - Sept. 22-26

Basic Art

Mon. - Students will be working on their window drawings for the window painting project.
Tue. - Same
Wed. - If finished, they are to work on scratch art for extra credit.
Thu. - Introduction to the new project. Stippling Hands Collage
Fri. - Window drawings are due today at end of period. When finished they are to start the stippling project.

Art 8

Mon. - If students are done with their window drawings, they will start their clay project. They need a drawing of an animal so they can carve into clay.
Tue. - Clay Relief project
Wed. - same
Thu. - same. Late deadline for the window drawings is today.
Fri. - same

Crafts

All week - Students will be working on their birdhouses. When finished with construction, they will paint their birdhouses and add extra details.
Fri. - Birdhouses are due!

Painting

Mon. - Students will be working on their color triangles. At this point all students should be working on their grayscale background.
Tue. - same
Wed. - If finished with color triangle, then start the planet mural.
Thu. - Color triangle or planet mural.
Fri. - Color Triangle project is due today!

Week 4 Sept. 15 - 19

Basic Art

Mon. - Finish critique of abstract drawings.
Tue. - Writing assignment in class. Critique one drawing from the board covering all subject areas. (rendering, shading, composition, presentation)
Wed. - Work on window drawings
Thu., Fri. - window drawings


Art 8

Mon. - Work on window drawings. All students should be starting their final color copy.
Tue., Wed. - window drawings, final copy
Thu. - Window drawings due! Clay introduction for next project.
Fri. - We will go over clay relief. Also work on animal sketches for project.


Crafts

Mon. - Birdhouse construction
Tue., Wed. - Same as monday
Thu. - All students should be starting to paint and decorate their birdhouses.
Fri. - Same


Painting

Mon. - Color Triangle. All students should be starting the grayscale background
Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., - Work on detailing triangle, plus finishing grayscale background.

Week 3 - Sept. 8 - 12

Basic Art

Mon. - Start finishing drawings and frame them. Post on bulletin board when finished. Then start your "window painting" drawings. Must have coal mining/halloween theme.

Tue. - Same as Monday

Wed. - "Macro" drawings due at end of class. Work on window drawings.

Thu. - Work on window drawings

Fri. - Same as Thursday


Art 8

Mon. - Work on window drawings.

Tue. - Work on window drawings.

Wed. - All should be starting final color copy.

Thu., Fri. - Window drawings/final color copy.


Crafts

Mon. - Window Drawings due at end of period. Start sketch of what you want your birdhouse to look like.

Tue. - Start construction of popsicle stick birdhouse.

Wed., Thu., Fri., - Birdhouse construction.


Painting

Mon. - Work on color triangle. All students should be painting the tertiary colors.

Tue. - Color triangle. When finished paint the background with either a custom design or picture, as long as it doesn't interfere with the triangle colors.

Wed. - Paint background

Thu., Fri., - Paint background of color triangle.

Week 2 - Sept. 2 - 5

Basic Art
Mon. - No School
Tue. - Students will work on their abstract drawings of an object of their choosing.
Wed., Thu. - Same
Fri. - Frame/Matte drawings and hang up to critique.

Art 8
Mon. - No school
Tue. - Students will work on window drawings with a coal mining theme.
Wed., Thu. - Same
Fri. - Students will start their final copies in colored pencil.

Crafts
Mon. - No school
Tue., Wed., Students will work on their window drawings with a coal mining theme.
Thu. - Students will start their final copies in colored pencil.
Fri. - Deadline for window drawings at end of class.

Painting
Mon. - No school
Tue. - Students will work on their color triangles. They will learn how to mix acrylic paint using only the primary colors.
Wed.,Thu.,Fri., - Same as above.

Week 1 - Aug. 25 - 29

Basic Art
mon. - teacher will go over rules and synopsis. I will introduce project 1 and students are to research coal mining history and come up with a good picture they would like to draw for the window painting project.

tue. - students should come to class with their drawing ideas for the window painting project and start sketching.

wed., thu., fri. - work on sketches for window painting project.

Art 8
mon. - teacher will go over rules and synopsis. we will then have a discussion about the projects we will cover in the 9 week period.

tue. - teacher will introduce the window painting project and students are to come up with an idea that relates to coal mining in schuylkill county. they are to research at home using the internet and bring their ideas to class.

wed., thu., fri., - work on window painting ideas and sketches.

Crafts
mon. - teacher will go over rules and synopsis. we will then discuss craft ideas and the difference between art and craft. i will introduce the window painting project. students, at home, will research the history of coal mining in schuylkill county and come up with a picture they would like to paint that describes that time period.

tue. - students will bring their ideas for window painting to class and start sketching
wed. thu. fri. - same as tuesday.

Painting
mon. - teacher will go over rules and synopsis. we will then have discussion about the projects that are going to be covered. i will introduce the window painting project theme. students will bring ideas from home, using the internet, and bring them to class.

tue., wed., thu., fri. - work on window painting ideas and sketches.