Advanced Sketchbook & Personal Pieces
Throughout the course of the year sixth graders have the option to work from an “advanced sketchbook menu” when they finish a project early or have extra classes. These menu items are a variety of projects that can be completed in the time the student has, or extended as far as the student would like to take it. There are also personal pieces that students completed on their own time and from their own inspiration on display here if they requested to submit something extra to the art show.
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Project: Choose several words. They could be a sentence or just a series of random words. Fill an entire page of your sketchbook with bubble letter versions of those words. The letters should touch each other and be a variety of sizes. They can run in different directions, twist around the page, or be laid out however you like as long as the letters touch each other and take up a lot of space on the page. Then choose one of these two options: 1) fill the letters in with a solid fill (like black, pencil, or a color) and fill the leftover negative space with pattern (either one or multiple), OR 2) fill the background with a solid fill and the letters with pattern.
Ziva DeMattia
Project: You are hired by NASA to act as their art consultant. They inform you that they are about to undertake the most amazing mission somewhere completely unexpected. Before they inform the public they want to have all the public relations material complete. They have most of it done, but no one can seem to get the mission patch right. They want you to look at the patches for the Apollo moon missions, and then use them as an inspiration to design two options for them to choose from. They should be different shapes and include different elements. (YOU can choose where the mission is to! And if you want to include names of the astronauts, not required, but you can make those up as well.)
Dillon DalalSurana
Project: Draw 10 noses from observation of photographs from 10 different people. You should do your best to replicate the differences of each individual nose. You should be able to identify the person in the photograph (i.e. famous people or personal photographs, but not random images). Put the name of the person who the nose belongs to under each drawing. Remember the rules and techniques of observational drawing.
Esther Kellerman
Toby Petrzella
Project: You are going to start your own business. Choose what kind of business you’ll run (anything you want) and decide on a name. Design three versions of your logo that include your company name in some way and are different from one another. They should be in color. Start by drawing 3 boxes that are 3.5×2 inches each in pencil. Each logo should be approximately the size of one box.
Erick Santiago
Project: Put on some music. Draw freely nonrepresentational doodles until that piece of music is over. Match the pace of drawing and your type of line with the type of music. When the song is over put on a completely different pace of song. Repeat matching the pace of drawing and type of line with the music. Do this until the page is completely filled. You can use whatever colors you like or you can draw in a single tool. If you choose colors, work with a variety. If you work with a single tool use a variety of pressures.
Zoe Barrett-Kahn
Major Novogratz
Sydney Royce
Juliet Sandler
Project: Tinker Hatfield is a shoe designer responsible for some of the most famous Nike shoe designs ever. He’s the man responsible for most of the Air Jordan designs. He’s also responsible for designing the futuristic self-lacing shoes from the movie Back To The Future 2. Let’s take inspiration from him. Design a completely new pair of shoes. Use a pair or pairs of real shoes to do initial drawings from observation to create the model on which your design will build. You may make them for any purpose you like (walking, casual, sports, fashion, etc…). Include some unexpected feature, anything you want. Do drawings of your design from multiple angles showing off your patterns, colors, and special feature somehow. Think between 3-5 angles of the shoe.
Nico Rudder
Julian Silver
Dante Tejerina
Project: Find the list of titles for 7 famous paintings below in the attached pages. Read through them all and find one that sounds interesting to you. None of the pieces are abstract or completely non representational, and all of them are 2 dimensional works. Without looking up the original piece recreate on a full page in your sketchbook what you think the piece looks like purely from the title. You may use any materials or techniques you would like (drawing, painting, collage, etc…) as long as your piece is completely inspired by the title of the original work. Think about the original artist and what they may have created to make them decide on that name, then make a version of the work you think they made. You may do research (looking up a picture of the artist, looking up pictures of items/places mentioned in the title, finding a visual reference for something specific, etc…), but you should not look up the piece itself. If you would like to look up the original piece after you have finished you may.
Paloma Sherak
*This piece to the right is the original “Head
of a Young Girl With Flowers” by Kehinde Wiley
Personal Projects
These pieces were created by students out of their own motivation and exploration, but they decided they would like to include them in their exhibits for the art show.
Cydney Klass
Zoe Sullivan
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