Ms. Edwards' Art Room

The seventh grade students learned about the history of Op-Art and were given different options to create their own design. They could choose between colored pencils, colored sharpies, white and black paper to create their optical illusion art. They learned about shading with values, complimentary colors, and the challenge of using permanent markers.

The pattern name project was the initial piece for a larger unit of study. Student's were challenged with writing their names in block or bubble capital letters. All letters had to overlap the previous one. After sketching out their names, they had to fill each letter with a different pattern. The spaces where the letters overlapped also had to be different patterns. Students were challenged to create interesting and varied patterns. After creating their patterns, students erased the lettered outlines and colored their patterns with sharpie. Once they were finished, the patterns created the forms of their letters in unique and bold ways.