Night time landscape

Students were introduced to the basic elements of a landscape while creating this glue resist drawing using chalk pastels for color and detail. Direct drawing project provided a guide for the layout but students

were given freedom of color, texture and detail. Connected to American Literature and Early American History Themes.

6th grade revisit Mr. Bones

2nd intro to Mr. Bones

This two part project involves both imagination and observation.

Plate Face

Wow!
What better way to start drawing a person than to start at the top with the face. These paper plate faces are silly expressive and very colorful especially when kooky hair is added.

This is ME!

This intro to the arts is wonderful warm-up for students on a year long journey to draw a human form.

The California Bear

This two part direct drawing project involves creating sketches, a finish drawing, redrawing in glue and then adding details and color with chalk pastels.

Sketchbook project-September 2010

6th grade students created sketchbooks that they will use throughout the year for warm up exercises and planning. They were allowed to design their own cover with a few specific elements: Title, name, classroom, and all or part of their hand. They enjoyed the creative freedom for personal expression.

Art History

What in this painting, let's step inside and find out...?

Art 2010-11

Welcome to America a Work of ART
This year we will spotlight American Artists and their diverse works from indigenous people to Warhol, Audubon to Bearden.

End of year Student Art show

Art makes a more colorful world, student art show

Graduation

6th grade graduation self portait project

Art Posters

Posters created to support the David Lubin art program

Recycle Robots

After School Recycle Robot Class

Blooming Art Student Show

April 2010 Blooming Art Student Show

2010 Garden Tour Poster Contest

2010 Garden Tour
 Poster contest

Looking back

Flowers
Large clcolorful chalk pastel flower drawings, inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe work.
These were displayed in the South Western cactus garden during the May Mother's Day Garden Tour.

Session 5 End of the year

Water color fun
2nd grade Cherry Blossoms

My money

3rd grade self portaits on art money

Torn paper Self Portaits

5th grade self portrait project

students create torn paper self portait,
using a base drawing to buil their finished
collage

Spring is in the art

Kindergarten and First Grade
Bug Cafe

My travel room

6th grade e collage piece.

March Pastel Trees

Fifth grade

6th grade 3-D shapes

March 2010

Cozy Cottage-oil pastle drawings, center/circle warm colors, surrounding area cool colors.

March-April Picasso inpired self portraits

4th grade oil pastel Picasso inspired self portraits-

Self portraits and more Session 4

Kinder, First and Second
Oil pastel self portraits
on 6x9 color construction paper 

Rainbow City

Working with shape, line and color students create a rainbow city with a horizon line, background and details. Collage and drawing.

February March 2nd and 3rd grade

Half face project. Students select a half face black and white image and create the other half with pencil.

Kindergarten Penguin drawing

Direct drawing project using a rectangle as the starting shape. Penguins are always fun!