Saturday, March 9, 2013

Finished Rugs



 
It might be hard to tell here but these are miniature rugs. Using small sections of canvas the 7th grade painted it to look like Navajo Rugs and Persian Rugs. Small pieces of jute rope was used for the fringe on the ends. The rugs can be used as bookmarks too.


School Auction (7th grade)



This is a stretched canvas with drawings the 7th grade class did for the school auction. Each student got a close up photo of a flower. Then in the style of Georgia O'Keefe they drew with sharpies onto tissue paper. They were then glued onto the canvas. I will look nice in some one's home. 

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Come to the Tufts Library!

 

 
Now showing at the Tufts Library, origami by students of Sacred Heart School. It will be on view for the week March 4 - March 9. It's in the glass case right when you come in the main enterance.

Art Club (painting)






 
Art Club is the place to be. The students really have made major progress. This week we started by using the skill we learned last week painting tones of a color. Light, medium and dark tones of red where used to make a painting of an apple. The contrasting blue background really help to make it pop. After the apples the class got into groups and made some over sized pencils with the proper shading to make them look real. I got some of them hanging up outside the classroom.

Happy Birthday Dr. Suess




 
For Dr. Suess's birthday we made a Tizzle topped something, I forgot it's name. It's from a Dr. Suess story, but also the 3rd graders got to work on how to draw layers. This crazy bird thing has a very long neck with layers of patterned feathers.

Dog Collage











I think the 8th grade did a wonderful job with this project. It takes a lot of patients and an eye for color. Every student got a picture of a dog and then had to recreate it using only magazines for the color. Before starting I showed work by artist Samuel Price who does extra large versions of this process.

Work from "home"

 
Laren from 6th grade painted this beautiful ocean scene at a class in Boston. Thanks for sharing it with the class, you should be proud of your work.

Hedgehogs



 
So now I know that if you want to get the attention of a Kindergartner just show pictures of cute hedgehogs. The loved it. After, they worked on their cutting skills and cut the quills for their own hedgehog. They also got to decide if the little guy would live in the wild or as a pet.