Eighteen Art Challenges for Middle School Print E-mail

... or the Fun-Damentals of Design


Students conquer the simplest Challenges, then climb to higher levels, taking on more complex Challenges. To review this outline scroll to the bottom and observe how each new Challenge builds on the one below it.

CHALLENGEMEDIAINSPIRATION
18 T-SHIRTS AND MORE
Form & function		 Fabric, assorted printing materials, embellishments Andy Warhol
17 IN THE PALM
OF MY HAND
Three-dimensional design		 Casting plaster, assorted sculpture materials Ron Mueck:
hyperrealist sculptor
16 EXTREME ACTION Emotional Impact Watercolors, mixed media Miriam Schapiro
& Peter Max
15 LET’S JAM
Critiquing art		 Oil painting

Picasso & Cubism,
Jacob Lawrence
14 IT’S MY LIFE
Color & Texture		 Gouache watercolors Georges Seurat:
Neoimpressionism
13 GOING PLACES
Color, texture & movement		 Acrylic paints, texture tools Vincent Van Gogh
12

IT'S MY LIFE             Personal style

 Acrylic Paints Frida Kahlo:             Modern Mexican Artist
11

TRANSPORTED IN SPACE & TIME
Form & color

OR 

PERSONAL PROJECT exploring 3-D design

 

Oil pastels

 

Architecture, clay, wood assemblage, mosaic etc.

 

Edward Hopper – American painter

 

Student's selected artist
10

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
Psychological space
& texture

OR

PERSONAL PROJECT exploring 3-D

 

Mechanical pens with assorted nibs

 

Architecture, clay, wood assemblage, mosaic etc.

 

Rene Magritte

 

 

Student's selected artist
9 IS THIS PLACE HAUNTED?
Space: two-point perspective		  Metallic colored pencils on black Victorian houses
8 DEEP SPACE
Space: one-point perspective		 Colored pencil on tinted paper Renaissance &
classical architecture
7 A SURREAL EXPERIENCE
Form: light & shadow		 Sketching pencils Salvador Dali:
Surrealism
6 A MATTER OF VALUES Value & contrast Camera, Photoshop, gray-scale markers Chuck Close:
digital design
5 MASTER OF ILLUSION Space: positive/negative Felt tip pen, ink jet printer, markers, colored pencils M C Escher
4 WHAT’S IN A NAME? Shape and color CorelDraw, markers,
gold pen		 Medieval Illuminations
3 LIFE ON PLANET EARTH
Rhythm & shape		 CorelDraw, felt tip pen, black marker Art Nouveau:
Poster design
2 DON’T BE SO OBVIOUS
Advanced rhythm & line		 Felt tip pen Geometric &
organic lines
1 COOL RHYTHMS
Simple rhythm & line		 Felt tip pen Nature
Begin here at Challenge 1 and design your way to the top

Last Updated on Friday, 24 December 2010 17:48