7th Grade Adds Wire and a Couple Other New Twists to Their Art Cards 
7th Grade students will be exploring metal and glasswork until the new year. Many of the ways they will explore new material explorations and composition techniques with be through the miniature medium of artist trading cards.

Continuing to explore their metal and watercolor skills from last week, students were challenged to create an art card (a work of art that is 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" in size) that has a minimum of 2 visible layers, 3 materials, and is structured as either a card with folded panels, or in a dyptic or tryptic card set.Students were introduced to the process of adding additional panels to the 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" standard art card to create doors that open onto a hidden area. A folded art card can be of any shape or size when unfolded, but the entire piece must still be able to reduce back to the standard 2 1/2" x 3 1/2".

They were also shown how the visual story can be continued or strengthen by creating a dyptic or tryptic using multiple art cards side by side in a vertical or horizontal orientation.