The ABC blocks are done!  Members of the Studio in Art class wanted to find a way to show their support for the students and rebuilding of Newtown Elementary School.  These beautiful hand-painted blocks will be sent to the school.  We have every letter from A-Z!

Hey 7th grade: We've been working so hard this quarter on one-point perspective projects! Starting with the 3D name design, and then creating an original city, you all have definitely mastered the technique of one-point perspective!  Congratulations, it's not an easy concept.

One-point perspective is a technique used in art to create the illusion of depth and distance on a flat surface.  With converging lines, scale changes, color changes, and overlapping, the cities definitely look like they go on for miles.

Here are some one-point examples:

Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris based artists.  The name of the movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet painting, called Impression, Sunrise:

The Impressionists changed the approach to painting by recreating the sensation in the eye that views the subject, rather than recreating the subject.