Saturday

Fun with Straight Lines

Kinders continue exploring lines...straight, parallel, perpendicular, intersecting, long and short.
Using pre-cut line segments, students play with the pieces and create a composition that they find interesting.

Using glue sticks, artists attach the black lines to one of three primary color background provided.




Monday

Make your own colors

Using the 3 primary colors students explored  how to blend and make their own secondary colors.



Meet Mr. Bones

This two part project blends Science and Art. What does a skeleton look like? How many bones are in an adult human skeleton? What is the biggest bone in the human body? What is the smallest bone in the human body? Using imagination and observation, discussion and hands on direct drawing students are introduced to the marvels of the human skeleton.

Drawing Mr. Bones:
We fold the pre-cut long black construction paper in half. Using white color pencils, white charcoal pencil or white crayon, students draw a skull at the top, pelvic bone on the fold line and two feet at the bottom. Now the job is to connect these parts. Using red light green light/direct drawing we build our Mr. Bones together step by step. Here are a few examples of the end results. I also send home a skeleton information hand out so that the artists can continue their studies.



Friday

Color "wheel" landscape

2nd/3rd grade color/painting project two parts.
Part I using the primary and secondary colors and direct drawing create a landscape from hot desert to the cool mountains.
Part II using Sharpies add landscape details and add snow/clouds to composition with tempera paints.









Talking about art

What words can we use to discuss art? Is art a product or a process or both?

Kinder A for artist L for line...

A is for artist...Kinders draw a self portrait the first week of art, this is a great meet and greet lesson and a way to evaluate and observe the artists at work in very free form project.






















Monday

Doodle collage

Welcome to the art room. This warm up collage project for 6th graders is a perfect go to project for those early finishers.

Mona Lisa what is missing?

Sometimes even a classic masterpiece can use a fresh look. This fun warm-up draw what is missing project was the perfect "welcome to art room" start up!






Spider web at night

Watercolor and crayon resist along with direct drawing make this a very successful project for young artist's.








Warhol inspired hand prints

Who doesn't like to stick their hand in silky cool paint? We also worked in a little color theory too! To add another step you can cut out (or have older students cut their own) hand print and mat on a new color. For these little ones this was enough!

Circle Painting

Circle painting with 6th graders-fun and creative freedom


It's a New Year, Welcome 2013-14

Our big question this year is ..."What is ART?" 

Sunday

Wrap up images of 2012-13

Kinder Self-Portrait 
Kinder Self Portrait 


6th grade take a line for a walk 

5th grade tree in landscape 

Tuesday

End of year student art show 2013

Our end of the year Student Art Show is part of the May Open House event. We had lots of families and very proud artists attend. Here are a few images from this magical event.

I'm so very proud of all of these artists and the journey we've taken together, until next year, Cheers and Happy Art Making!












Garden Tour May 2013

This Mother's Day fund raiser supports the resident Artist workshops as well as many other school enrichment  programs.