"Selfies"

Shyanne obviously loves music

My teaching year has begun, this week being the second class of the new year. Like last year, I have two classes every Wednesday morning. The First is made up of the grade 9 and 10's while the second is grade 6 - 8's. They total 41 amazing students.
 
I am seeking to establish a routine, every class beginning with an artistic warm-up session of "contour drawing". Students can come in, get their pencil and paper, find a seat and simply begin drawing! No waiting for instructions necessary, they will know what to do and they also know why we do this.

Three students "contour drawings"
of the same object.

This week we did "Selfies" where we drew objects or symbols of some of our favorite activities. In the art world they are called "Self Portraits".  As the year progresses we will do more of these in different ways. Great markers as to who we are and how we change.

Meet & Read about teen artist Kate Powell.

I would like you to meet a gifted teenager, Kate
Powell. Kate "has shared her Art projects on social
media platforms since she was fifteen years old. She currently has over 12,000 fans on Facebook and 34,000 followers on tumblr, with one of her tumblr posts gaining over 112,000 notes. We talk to Kate about how she has built this following and how she launched her career before graduating from high school. -
See more at


ttp://www.studentartguide.com/featured/kate-powell-art#sthash.52kTdA5X.dpufEvery

This bottom picture is her "selfie" and I would encourage you to look up this website and her blog, you just have to read her story. I would like to talk about this in our art class soon.

Thanks for visiting this new blog site.

Talk about "Selfies" look at this quote, what dose that tell you?

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"So God created man in His own image; in
the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them."  
Genesis  1:27