Happy New Year!

 

Art by 1st grade

Have a safe and fun Christmas and New Year. See you in 2014!

Hedgehogs

The K2 class worked some more on cutting skills. First we looked at adorable pictures of hedgehogs. Then using paper plates the students cut out the body shape. Then they added the signature quills to the back of their hedgehog. The texture then was drawn with crayons and a cute face was added. The finishing touch of brown was done with watercolors.

Pablo Picasso Faces

 

Pablo Picasso

 

 

Pablo Picasso was the focus of the lesson for the 2nd graders. We looked at all the different styles that Picasso worked in then made our own version of his cubism style face. We did a quick drawing lesson on how to draw eyes from two angles then drew the nose at a 3/4 view. The students handled it quite well. I think some adults don't know how to draw an eye from a side view. The face parts then were placed on a "face".

Auction Item Preview, 2nd grade Tree

 

 

This painting on canvas by the 2nd grade was done using their finger prints for leafs and each students made a unique bird. It's going to be open for bids at the Gala.

Polar Bears

1st grade used small round sponges to make these lovable polar bears.

They are on display in the 3rd floor hallway.

Tape Resist Trees

Every year I do a tape resist lesson, but I try to do a variation of it. Here the 3rd grade made birch trees with a red headed woodpecker on one. Some of the skills we worked on was foreground and background, painting with watercolors and salt, shading and drawing lesson.

Snowman Lost his Hat

 

2nd grade used small round sponges to make these playful snowmen. The hat was cut out of black paper and placed up in the air like it was blown off. Then while the paint was drying the students drew an illustration of what happen to the hat when it blew away.

Creative Problem Solving

 

I have five tables in the art room. So each table got a collection of found objects placed in the middle for the group to view. They were forbidden to touch or pick up the objects. The instructions were to use all the objects to make directions to construct an interesting structure. It could look like something familiar or be abstract, but all the pieces had to be used. Also it had to really be able to be made with a hot glue gun by a 7th grader. The ones above are the winners of each table that were voted by a different table.

Next the 7th graders will have to make them using the directions from the 4th grade. I'll post the final products when they are done.



Cartouches

The 7th grade class have been studying Egypt in class so we fit in some lessons to go with it. Each student got a small piece of clay that is soft until it's baked. The lesson was to shape it to a form that would fit their name in hieroglyphics. The symbols were engraved using a toothpick. Then after they were baked to be hard the student painted them with black acrylic paint then gold paint on top. The final product resembles an antique pharaohs cartouche.

K2 Cutting skills

I had rolls of adding machine paper donated to the class room. I finally found a project to use it. The K2 class students each get a few strips of the paper and some scissors. Then with cutting skills make a fringe cut along one side of the paper. When we have enough to cover a tree shape I glued the strips overlapping them to give the tree it's pine needle texture. We even had time to fit in a quick star drawing lesson for the decorations. After Christmas check in to see what I make out of the fringe tree..

More Clay

 

The first grade class had fun with the clay too.. 

Clay with K2

The K2 class and I watched an old Gumby show then talked about how the figures were made from clay and animated by stop motion. It just makes you want to play with clay so we got some out.

 



Artwork from the CAFETERIA!!!!

Have you every had those little cheese circles packaged in red wax. Once of my crafty students found if you hold the wax in your hand long enough it becomes soft and able to shape into forms. Look at the cool bird he made at lunch. Nice job William!

 

Here is another bird made by William:

 

 

Thank you!!!!!

I just want to take this time to say thanks to everyone that keeps an eye on this blog. I really enjoy teaching the students at Sacred Heart and feel the need to share all the hard work they are doing. I keep most of the artwork in the class room till the Art Fair, so it's tough for the parents to know what their children have been creating.
I'm happy to say that this blog has a lot of views considering we are such a small school. It goes to show you that we have some proud parents and care givers.
I case you want to know when is the best time to check updates I tend to make them on Friday. Sorry if I miss a day or two, but it's regularly every week when we have school.

Design Your Own Rocket Ship

Rocket by David in grade 4

 

I found out about a fun contest with not much time to beat the deadline. The 3rd and 4th grade worked swiftly to make their own design for a space ship.

The sponsor of the contest is the Space Foundation.



Watercolor Resist Letters

 

K2 used masking tape to make the first letter of their name on paper. Then they added designs with crayons. They now have two kinds of resist for the watercolor paint. After drying for a day this is what's left behind. How 'bot the tape skills. Some students had to make an "S"!!! And they did.



Lego Minifigure Self Portrait

 

These were done by the 1st grade after we watch a video about artist that

make large scale sculptures out of Legos.

 

Here is a link to a minifigure template for you to try one.

Scratchboard

 

Scratchboard is thick paper that has a layer of black ink printed on top.

The artist uses a metal tipped tool to scratch away the black ink leaving the white to show.

It's drawing in reverse. It's tougher though. It takes skill to get it to scrape the way you want.

Each of the 5th and 6th grade class started by drawing with pencil lightly an ear of corn. Then after finishing the scratching they added color with sharpies. 



Tepees and Canoes

 

The board outside the art room is all ready for Thanksgiving with Native American art by K2 and 1st grade. The K2 decorated their own tepee with unique lines that I drew on the chalkboard for them. The materials used were oil pastels.

 

The canoes were constructed by 1st grade with paper towel tubes and painted to look like birch tree bark. If you look close you can see the happy passengers.

3-D Abstract Sculpture

 

Did you know that we have a class of abstract artist in 1st grade.

This is a great example by Julian.

The fun thing about these sculptures are that they can be changed anytime you want to.

Work from Home

 

Thanks to Jack in 1st grade for bringing in this collection of art he did at home. Drawing flags are tough! He handled it quite well. The stars take some skill. Nice job!

I especially love the Christmas Spidey.

 



Texture Quilts

Ok, yes this the third year of doing this project. But it's such a great lesson I have to see how each K2 class does with it. As you can see this year was very successful. Each table got a variety of textures (sandpaper, texture wallpaper, Legos, floor tiles, etc..). Then after drawing the quilt squares they made each square a different pattern by rubbing crayons over the texture.