Grade 7 & 8 - Witty Subway Map Art

Students created this art piece inspired by Canadian artist, Ingrid Dabringer, who creates beautiful hand-painted maps. Students transformed the map into a new scene and created a new story by turning the New York City transit guide around.

Installation Art

Grade 7 students learned about contemporary artist, Slinkachu. We looked at his 'Little People Project' which started in 2006. The project involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which he then places and leaves on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project.

Inspired by Slinkachu's installation project, students begun a group installation project.

I gave each group a random object such as a scotch-tape, push-pins, buttons, pencil sharpener, and flowers. Students did brainstorming to create a storyline with little figures that they made.

Like Slinkachu, students placed the figures in a place where students thought it was effective setting for the installation art.

 

Here are the photographs that students took. We had so much fun making the figures and taking photographs of them.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group G

Observation Drawing of Cell

Grade 7 looked at human body cell and discussed how incredibly mysterious they were. They practiced shading values with pastel pencils and then used the skills for the observation drawing.

Mehndi Design Project

I finally get to upload the Mehndi design project that Grade 7 students have worked on. Everyone worked so hard creating unique pattern design and their finished works came our beautifully. They were proud of the final result of this project. Such talented students!

 

 Close up photos

Environment Day Art Activity

Friday Art Activity
The theme of April was "Environment and Social Responsibility".
BCC artists used recycled bottle caps to create collaborate pieces. They learned that they could create amazing artwork using recycled materials and were able to demonstrate the importance of recycling.

Here are photos of the art-making process.

 Here are finished pieces of the day. They are displayed in the lobby and the library.

Bottle Cap Tower

Detail view

"Be Kind to Our Earth"

Mehndi Design

Grade 7 students learned "Mehndi Design", which is the application of henna as a temporary form of skin decoration in India. They traced their hands in interesting composition and are in process of designing their own Mehndi patterns. Everyone shows a lot of effort adding details on the pattern design. Some of them are already finished with the design and the background. I will be posting their finished work soon!

Art Show

Surreal Eyes
Each student created a drawing of an eye inspired by Surrealist painter, René Magritte. The image expressed things that are meaningful to them based on the saying, "the eye is the window to the soul”. Students also created collages — one with eye images and another with images that represent themselves.






Creative Hairdo
This project gave students the opportunity to transform their appearance by creating a unique hair style, hat or mask using paper. They explored a range of collage techniques, such as, cutting, folding, ripping, crumpling and overlapping paper. Some students decided to make their hair pop off the page to achieve a three-dimensional effect.

 

Collaboration Mural
Students in grade 4 to 7 assembled the forest and under the ground scenes. Younger artists in kindergarten to grade 3 worked on coloring the accents for the environment - rows of flowers, insects and animals that inhabit the land. A special contribution came from grade 2B, grade 5 and grade 7 who helped to put the finishing touches to our school mural.