The Art of Abstraction -  students must draw a bicycle and then using Mondrian's abstraction method they must paint an abstraction of the bicycle. These painting are acrylic on canvas and measure 1 x 1 meter. 

The Built Environment: What do humans build and how does this change our visual environment?

Students were asked to make 2 isometric sketches of buildings. One sketch had to be a of a real building, and the other of an imaginary building. They needed to annotate and talk about the function of the building, the architect, the inventor and interesting aspects about the building.
Students were then asked to create a sketch of a building combining features of both the building they chose to sketch.

The buildings in 3D

Some Ideas just have to be shared: Narrative Art

Students had to work in teams in order to create a story they had seen on the news. 
Statement of Inquiry:
​Artists use representation to communicate a chosen narrative.

Generating ideas in Grade 9 -  
and evaluation IB MYP Criterion C - Thinking Creatively 

Students were asked to make a mind map about themselves. They are to revisit that mind map and choose parts of it to emphasise in their own self-portrait. By creating a large amount of ideas and training our brains to select the stronger thoughts for our specific creative endeavour we create an environment of success.

These mind maps turned into final portrait art.

Grade 9 - Dada Art. Making art inspired by a Global Context:

The idea behind this project is to use the MYP's global context to inspire the subject of a mixed media collage/drawing.

Grade 9 -  Cellular art project

The original sketchbook designs are to explore the concept of cells and how they can be used to inspire art.

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The sketches inspired by their science class start to emerge. They need to make several designs in order to explore their ideas. Through annotations, simply ' find 3 good thing and 3 bad things about each design', students should be able to make informed choices about the final design that will go up on the art wall. 

The Cells on the wall

Grade 9 -  Mixed media drawing

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Grade 9 -  Abstraction

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This  is a student example of a digital process journal for this project.

Abstraction experiments using spackling paste, a piece of cardboard and sculpting tools:

Step 2 is to dry brush the dried pieces with acrylic paint. 

Experiments in Abstraction