Distance Learning Student Gallery - Week #1

Teaching art online is a new reality and every project will be a learning experience for both teacher and student.  Below is the first online assignment for my grades 7 and 8 students.  I am happy to share the results with you.  I wish I could display all of them (several hundred), but here a few that display the variety of submissions.  Good work everybody, some really nice photographs that capture the objectives of the lesson.

Project #1 “Photograph the Ordinary”, this photography assignment is about composition or how you frame the object and light. You are looking for ordinary objects found in your house that you usually see every day.  Find an object and try to present the object in a new way or a new point of view.  Your goal is to take a photograph of this ordinary object and  make the ordinary more interesting.  

Adam L.

Annabella H.

Ashlin G.

Celia K.

Chloe H.

Danielle H.

Grace D.

Danielle D.

Derek O.

Evan F.

Adam N.

Eric W.

Isabella B.

James M.

Kate D.

Katelyn F.

Maxim T.

Sarah A.

Kaylin H.

Mackenzie L.

Shyann K.

Robert M.

Tiffany W.

Stephanie R. B.

Sean L.

Submissions from Drawing Prompt #3 "View From a Window"

Thank you for your submissions.  Keep sending them in.

Ellie - Grade 8

Danica - Grade 8

Hunter  - Grade 7

Hunter's Mom

Nolan - Grade 5

Ryan - Grade 4

Jakob - Grade 7

Mariela and Leo's Mom

Leo - Grade 6

Mariella - Grade 6

Janelle - Grade 4

Isla - Grade 2

Gabby - Grade 7

Paul - Grade 4

Molly - Grade 7

Wil - Grade 6

Reese - Grade 3

Group Drawing, Nicholas - Grade 6,

Samantha - Grade 3, Timmy - Preschool

Colin - Grade 6

Jacob - Grade 9

Zack - Grade 6

I realize this is not part of the theme, but a student sent the photograph of the drawing she made and it was completed during this period of isolation, so I wanted to share the wonderful work.

Nadia - Grade 8

Drawing Prompt #3 A View From A Window

Hello everyone.  I hope everyone is healthy and slowly adjusting to our strange,  temporary situation.  miss my classroom and the structure of the school day, but like everyone else, I'm doing my best staying busy.  I believe that very soon students will start getting more structured lessons and activities from their teachers.  I have been busy preparing art and STEAM lessons on Canvas for my Trimester 3 classes. However, not everyone at the middle school has art Trimester 3 and I will keep posting these prompts for anyone that wants to participate and create art.  This week's drawing prompt is a little more open ended and involves a little more creativity and thought. But, it also allows you to  create a wide range of responses.  Your view can be in or out the window.  Is what you see realistic or fantasy?  What would you like to see?  What if a strange spaceship landed outside the window, what would you see?  Is the view day or night?  Sunny or stormy? Is it a house window?  What about a view out of an airplane window?  Or a submarine?  Perhaps the space station?  See what I mean.  Lots of choices so have fun with it.  Creating art should be relaxing,  calming and sometimes mistakes are part of the process. As always send those photos to mikedirado@abingtonps.org

Rebecca Korpita

Edward Hopper

Kikuo