Art-Making Materials
The most basic art-making material - a type of dry media - we use it every day!
Pencil
This artist used the Impressionist style to create paintings with bold brush strokes, like Starry Night.
Vincent Van Gogh
This is the name of our class pet.
Sheldon
The basic building blocks of art: line, shape, color, form, value, space, and texture.
The Elements of Art
A written reflection on the creation of your artwork, explaining what you did and why.
Artist statement
This material is easily blended to create smooth color gradients and values (light/shadow). It is very messy!
Chalk pastels
This art style is "non-representational," meaning the artwork is not meant to look like anything in real life.
Abstract art
This is how you spend the first five minutes of every art class.
Sketching in sketchbooks
A technique for showing distance in an artwork by dividing the work into foreground, middle ground, and background.
Atmospheric perspective
A drawing skill that involves observing something in real life and drawing it as accurately as possible.
Observational drawing
A special type of paint that is used on bisque fired clay objects. It turns to glass in the kiln!
Pottery glaze
This type of artwork is also a mindfulness technique, and does not involve planning or sketching before creating. It consists of many sections of different patterns.
Zentangle
What does Ms. Sale collect but never opens?
Pokemon cards
An enclosed two-dimensional (flat) area.
Shape
A type of artwork that involves a realistic drawing of an arrangement of objects.
Still Life Composition
This is a type of paint that must be mixed with water.
Watercolor paint
This type of 3D artwork can be functional or decorative, and has been made for tens of thousands of years.
Pottery
What are Ms. Sale's kids' names?
Landon, Logan, Lilyana
A group of materials that do not require liquid to work with; our most commonly used materials.
Dry media
This project started with creating a color wheel using watercolor paint.
Zentangle
This material can be used for bold, colorful lines. You can also use this material to make watercolor paint!
Markers
This artist had a condition called synesthesia, which meant he could "see sounds" and "hear colors."
Wassily Kandinsky
Is a banana duct-taped to a wall art?
Yes or no! Discuss!
The use of value (black, gray, white) in an artwork to create the illusion of 3D objects; an Italian word that literally means "light shadow."
Chiaroscuro
This project involved using three colors - a base, highlight, and shadow - to make things look 3D.
3D Forms with Pastels