Studio Arts

The picture below is of some of the homemade lures i made. Couple of them i made out of a license plate, one i made out of a piece of copper and the one on the top is made out of a old spoon that i cut the handle off and painted.

These are some of the projects in studio arts. I have to say that out of all the projects that i made the bowls on the potters wheel was the hardest and the most aggravating because you have to have the clay on the wheel perfect in the center other wise once you would start pulling up the sides on the bowl then it would just start wobbling out of balance and fling into hundreds of pieces.
The project that took the longest is the one above, the ducks, because its four different pictures and their all different mediums. Over all i think they all turned out very well and i am glad i took the time to do it because you don't have this art class your whole life.

Artwork on Display at Cedar Falls AEA

 Selected students in Miss J's classes have work on display at the Area Education Agency in Cedar Falls for the month of October.  Miss J put a display up in the main hallway so it is open for public viewing when the building is open.  Click on a photo below to see an enlarged version of the artwork/display.  (Thanks to Lisa Cox for the photos of the display!)

8th grade cubism paintings

Graphic Design Font Faces

Graphic Design Font Faces

Graphic Design Alphabet Images

7th Grade Op Art Designs

7th grade Op Art Designs and Contour Designs

7th grade Contour Drawings of shoes and designs.

7th grade Jasper Johns Inspired Paintings

7th grade Jasper Johns Inspired Paintings and on the bottom 7th Tech Adobe Illustrator posters.

 

 

7th Art Jasper Johns inspired paintings and 7th Tech Adobe Illustrator posters.

7th art - Jasper Johns inspired paintings and 6th Secret City and 7th tech Adobe Illustrator posters.

Art 1 Altered Book pages and 6th Secret City designs.

Art 1 Altered Book pages and 6th grade Secret City drawings.

Art 1 Altered book page designs and 6th Secret City drawings

8th grade Cubism paintings

The end of the hall drawings!

Clay work - in process

Chelsea M. working on her footed clay bowl, above and beyond the classroom classperiod.  Stay tuned for a finished look.

Art 2 -Clay Plate

This is a clay plate we were assigned to make in Art 2. My shape is a rectangle and I made it to look like it was a picture. I had put circular shapes that pop out on the corners and then used a fork to make the texture. I used a circular object to make the circles in the middle, then used a knife to make the lines connecting them. Getting the clay to not stick to the newspaper while I was rolling it out was a big challenge for me. I plan to use this plate to keep notes to myself so I won't forget about important things. Samie L.

This is my clay project from art 2. I made a circle shape and added spacey stuff to it. we used a rolling pin to get our clay base then used a knife to cut our shape. i plan on taking this to college with me so i can show all my new friends i will make.
Tyler P.

Art 2 - White on Black

For this project, we were given a black sheet of paper and were told to draw with a white colored pencil. With the white pencil, we had to draw the white part that was on the pictures we got our ideas from. We would then have to shade the picture to make it more realistic. We could not outline which made it a little bit more difficult.  Some people chose dark themes. I chose a mother nature type theme for mine. I have "Mother Nature" sleeping on the bottom of mine. Her hair than changes into water that flows down a river and under a bridge. In the background, there are mountains and trees to go with the theme. I think that all of them turned out really good. The hardest part was thinking in reverse, instead of the normal pencil on white paper. I really liked this project because of the challenge and the way it turned out. I am excited to see what people are going to think of all of them in the art show.   -Kaitlyn G.

       In this project we had to take take many black and white pictures and make them into a college.
      The general idea of this project was to make it almost "dreamlike" while only drawing the highlights or the white parts of the pictures. We had to use several techniques such as shading. My picture was supposed to have an old dark room theme. I added things like an open door, vintage lighting, empty picture frames and a piano. The piano keys and the hand were by far the most difficult part of the project for me. This project took alot of time and planning for the whole class.  My project turned out better than  I thought it would be, I plan on entering it into the artshow.  -Taryn F.

While making this project we had to use a white pencil we then had to make a rough draft or plan. I decided to do a mixture between heaven and hell. I decided to make it look as though the sun was melting the sky and God was watching. I found pictures from the internet and magazines to look off of to use as a idea of how i wanted it to go. This have probably been my favorite project and in my opinion my best project in both art 1 and 2. i will most definitly be entering it into the art show! :) - Alex K.

We were told to find a black and white photo of something then think of ideas of what to do, and i got a photo of a zebra and and wanted to make it into a waterfall but we couldn't draw the dark's so i drew the head of the zebra and put trees in it and put rocks in it. we used white pencils to make it. Jake H.

The project was based around white on black, they were formed from a collage that we did before actually completing the project.


I chose this collage because to me it represents all the evil in the world coming together with all the kindness and compassion. I feel that it is one of my best pieces in art 2 and I am very proud that I had a chance to complete this project.- Jensen J.

To start this project I had to think about different dreamlike, or surrealist, ideas. I came up with the idea of an unhuman character capturing and sucking souls in his dungeon. I came up with this idea thinking about some different movies with dreamlike qualities and somehow I came upon the topic of Harry Potter and the Dementors. The whispy, Soul-like qualities struck interest in me.
To go about this project I had to think very differently and backwards. We did a project similar to this last semester but it was dark on light, not light on dark. So it was kind of a large change between the two. However, I am very pleased with the outcome of the picture. I think it looks very nice and well done.  - Lexi R.

Art 2 - Sculpture

This project was a very fun and interesting project. It has been one of my favorite art projects I've done in a while. My project is a cliff with people diving of of it. We made these projects out of clothes hangers and nylons. We formed the hanger to the shape we wanted and stretched the nylon over it and painted it with latex paints until it became hard. That is when we all decided what we wanted to make and start the process of making our sculpture. -Blaine S.

This was one of my favorite art projects i have done this semester. At first my project was just going to be a boring structure with photos i have taken, but Mrs. J challenged me to do a camera taking a picture. Loving the idea, i went right to work on it. i took my nylons and put on the wire i bent. I painted to base black and the wire part shades of yellow to red. This was a very fun project, i made this project more me by adding a camera strap that said camera, my favorite type of camera. -Derek B


This project was a very fun and unique project. It has been one of my favorite art projects I've done. My project is a city scene in the night time with a moon. I liked how my project turned out. The sculptures in my class were awesome! Everyone did such a great job and they were very different and unique. We made these projects out of clothes hangers and nylons. We formed the hanger to the shape we wanted and stretched the nylon over it and painted it with latex paints until it became hard. That is when we all decided what we wanted to make and start the process of making our sculpture. -Britni N

This is one of our projects we did in Art II. I liked this project the most because i thought is was cool to see the different things people's imagination came up with. This project is just nylon stretched over a bent clothes hanger. Then we could paint what ever we wanted on it. i chose to do a mountain scene at night because I thought that I could use a lot of different materials. I used cotton balls for the snow on the top of the mountain and glitter for the stars in the sky. I enjoyed this project a lot and i hope this semester we have more fun projects like this one. -Marley S

This project was a very fun project to do, I enjoyed it a lot.  With this project we took a block of wood, put holes in the piece of wood and stuck a wire hanger in the holes. Then we bent the wire hanger however we wanted. Then we picked a theme that we wanted to do, my theme was earth to space. I used a variety of colors and objects to make my  sculpture. I used styro foam balls for planets, and fake trees. -Marissa B



This is one of my most favorite projects I have done in any art class. What we did was we took a wooden block and drilled two holes in it. Than we sculpted a cloths hanger to the shape we wanted and than we glued it in. After that we put a nylon and we had to paint it with latex paint, than we got to decided what we wanted to make. At first i wanted to make a house, but after i clued the glass peices on , it just looked to much like a ghost to not make it it. Than i just went with the flow and put things that i thought went with it good ; such as grave stones, a gate that looked errie. I love using all different mediums. -Courtney Rose

This project was different from many of the art objects i have made before this class. At first i wanted to make a flytrap with teeth and a mouth wide open like it was waiting for a fly to land, but then i saw that the top looked more like a U.F.O. so i decided to make an alien taking a cow up from a field to probe. This project was very entertaining and i do hope we do more like this. -Andy Manis

This was a very fun project that i enjoyed doing. I was not sure on what i was going to do right away. The first thing i did was paint it. I had to blend a lot of blues together. I added some white to the edges of it. Once i got done painting I wanted to add sand to the bottom for the beach. When i was all done with this project i really liked  how it turned out. I enjoyed doing this project and would like to do more like it. -Austin B.


This was my favorite project, because we got to design and create our very own sculpture. I chose to do a wave, because Ms. Johnson showed us sculpture from the past and I thought the wave looked really cool. I decided to put a little twist on my wave by adding a little surfer. I created her out of model magic, which is like not messy clay. I printed off pictures of a wave and based the look of my wave off of it. I love the way my wave and person turned out I think it looks really cool.  I hope we do more sculptures in the future. -Bailey V.

I enjoyed doing this project because it was new to me. I loved painting on the nylon because it felt cool and was different than just normally painting on plain paper. I decided to sculpt a hot air balloon because I thought it was original and I like to find ideas that no one has thought of before. Making the shape of the figure was the hardest part and frustrated me a bit because it wasn't working the way i wanted it to. I used tissue paper on the balloon part of the sculpture, cotton balls for the clouds, and a weaved paper basket for the hot air balloon's basket. I would love to do this project a couple more times and see if I can have awesome ideas for more sculptures.  -Chelsea M.

I liked doing this project because I liked the idea of it and that we got to do whatever we wanted to with it. I like the idea of Vegas. If i could redo this project I would choose to spend more time on painting it and getting different types of objects. I thought that the hardest part was trying to form the actual wire because it was hard to make it a way and then try to bend it another way. -Chancey.

6th Artist Reports

The students in 2nd Trimester 6th grade Art did research on different artists throughout history.

Once they did their research on the artist's background, they created a pop out card about their artist.  They were required to paint a self portrait of their artist with watercolor paint, make a reproduction of an artwork of the artists and include born and died dates as well as more interesting facts about their artist in a visual form. 

















To finish the unit, students gave a presentation to their class on their artist.  These cards will be displayed at the March 29th Art Show in the Multi-Purpose Room.