Art Portfolios

My art class was a semester long.  During the last two weeks of the semester, I had my students take pictures of all of their art work, and create a Google Slide presentation to house their digital portfolios.  Once they had an art piece on each slide I had them reflect.  

I asked these four questions:

1. What did you do to create the art piece?
2. What do you like about the specific piece?
3. What did you learn?
4. What would you improve?

My students took their time with their reflections, and it turned out to be a very positive experience for them.  As well, a great way for them to keep their art work and share it with others.

Below are some example slides and links to completed portfolios.

Links to digital portfolios (6th-8th grade)

Radial Color Wheel

Radial Color Wheel

Basic Color Theory

I was inspired to have my students create radial color wheels when I saw several pop up on Pinterest. It seemed like a great way to teach my students basic color theory.  I used the directions from the following post to help guide my students in creating their initial designs.  

Once my students drew the outer circle with a compass, they used a protractor to divide the sections.  

They then drew a design in one of the sections.  once it was to their liking they used tracing paper to copy the design to the other sections.  I had them turn the tracing paper over and fill the back side with pencil.  This created the transfer.  Check out the following post by Emily Mclemore for detailed directions.

My students used colored pencils (primary and secondary colors) to fill in the design.  They combined the primary and secondary colors to make the tertiary colors. 

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