RBMS Visual Arts

6-8th Grade

6th GradeStudents will required to bring a

mechanical pencil, ruler and erasers

January 2016
Students will be
working on their comic
book/strips. Due on
04/03/2015

YSLETA African
American Art
Show
01/22/2016

6-8th

MATERIALS
NEEDED FOR ALL
STUDENTS

7 and 8th grade

Curve stitching :relies

on the fact that a curve
can be approximated
by a finite number of
closely spaced
tangents, and the
archetypal curve-stitch
figure is that of the
parabola

Comic strip is:

essentially
containing text
inscribed within
balloons ... and
more novel-like
coherent story, and
the term sequential
art is also in use. ...
A comic book is a
bound collection of
strips, each of
which typically tells
part of the story.

Visual Arts Common Assessment test will be on 01/20/016. We will be covering

Comic book terminology techniques and Curve stitching terminology.

Compass
Soap Erasers, Protractors
Erasers, Pencils, rulers, Markers
0.5 Mechanical Pencil, color pencils

V
Parabolic curve stiching is: This technique, invented by Englishwoman Mary Everest
Boole (1832 - 1916) in 1904, produces apparent curves by means of perfectly straight
lines.