Art in Smith Center Junior High

Scroll down to see some of the drawings that the artists in 7th grade created during the Fall semester.

With these first pieces, these 7th grade artists used linear perspective, overlapping, and value to create depth. They came up with their own ideas for shapes and patterns to create their own compositions.

Fall Semester, 2017-18.

With these second pieces, these artists used compasses to create circles and then used complementary colors and different values of warm and cool colors to turn their circles into spheres and to make those spheres visually pop off the paper.

Fall Semester, 2017-18.

With these still life drawings, the artists used a pencil and their observational skills to draw a group of objects from real life.

Fall Semester, 2017-18.

With these Surrealist-inspired drawings (below), these artists worked with many of the skills that they learned over the course of the semester. They used drawings pencils, tortillons, and kneaded erasers to draw their hands reaching onto the paper in some manner. They incorporated linear perspective in some way. They worked with complementary colors and warm and cool colors. They practiced hatching, cross-hatching, or stippling to create some of the values (light and dark areas) in their pieces. By using all of these skills, these artists created a colorful world into which they are reaching; an imaginary world into which you are viewing. The Surrealists often drew on their dreams or on their imaginations as they developed their artwork, sometimes placing objects together that have no obvious connection to each other; sometimes distorting the real world while still making it seem believable. These young artists drew on their own experiences and imaginations to create their own Surreal worlds.

Fall Semester, 2017-18.

You can see their individual Surrealist-inspired drawings below.

Trace Billinger. 2017.

Haley Feldmann. 2017.

Cauy Haresnape. 2017.

Adrian Hawkins. 2017.

Maile Hrabe. 2017.

Shelby Maydew. 2017.

Bentley Montgomery. 2017.

Tristen Platt. 2017.

Adalia Rego. 2017.

Sam Saltzman. 2017.

Bella Schmidt. 2017.

Kumar Singh. 2017.

Garret Wanner. 2017.

With these colorful drawings (below), the students again drew the still life objects on a paper. This time, however, they simplified the shapes of those objects to create a more abstract image. They then worked with one primary color (yellow, red, or blue) or secondary color (orange, green, or violet) to create a monochromatic piece, mixing that color with its neighboring primary or secondary colors to make tertiary colors (yellow-orange, yellow-green, red-orange, red-violet, blue-green, or blue-violet).