Thursday
Fall Winter Harvest Basket
Intro to weaving and building on pattern skills students create a paper basket, draw a table top and complete the still life with fruits, vegetables and leaves.
Wednesday
End of Session One start of Session Two
Fun Day of the Dead drawing/coloring skull project with 6th grade
3rd grade bead project
Working with natural colored-air dry clay students create beads-connects to Native American culture and money unit. 
First Grade Painting a Flag
Students learned to us a ruler to draw straight lines. Working with ABAB patterns they painted red stripes, added a blue rectangle with 13 starts.
Monday
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 studentswere given freedom of color, texture and detail. Connected to American Literature and Early American History Themes.
Wednesday
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.
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 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.
This year we will spotlight American Artists and their diverse works from indigenous people to Warhol, Audubon to Bearden.
Sunday
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.
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.
Torn paper Self Portaits
5th grade self portrait project
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| students create torn paper self portait, using a base drawing to buil their finished collage |
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