Inspired To Be Creative

 

 

    At McDowell Middle School, each semester students in seventh grade have impact classes, technology or art.  The first half of the year I took technology and now I’ve started in art class.  Here is some information about art class.

 

      Art class is just not about drawing and painting, you also learn history and vocabulary. So far this semester we have learned about cavemen and cave art. We have talked about how the cavemen created these types of art. For example, we have learned about Room Of Bison, dated between 15,000-10,000B.C. The style was primitive cave art and it was found in the Altamira Grotto in Northern Spain.

     We have also learned how to do a blind contour drawing and a partial look contour drawing. A blind contour drawing is where you look at a picture and do not look at your page while drawing (You can’t even peek!).  A partial look contour drawing is a where you can partially look at your drawing but most of the time your eyes are looking at the object.

     For vocabulary we usually have three to four words each week. We learn the definition and look at examples on the board while our teacher, Mrs. Helsel explains it to us. Some of the words we have had are hue, intensity and color scheme. One other thing that we do in art class is a thumbnail sketch. Now a thumbnail sketch is not a picture of a nail, it is a little drawing of the picture you are learning about.

    Although we are doing a lot in art already, here is something I want to learn in class in these upcoming weeks. I want to improve my drawing skills. I’m sure I will improve with techniques with lots of practice.

    McDowell has a great art program.  It’s fun having an interactive class where each student can use their own imagination while learning specific techniques. I’m sure this will be a great class where I’ll learn while expressing my creative side!

    

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