Sledders and Snowboarders

Sledders and snowboarders made by the 1st grade. 

They will be hanging at the Tuft's Library soon. I'll keep you posted.

Nevelson Sculpture

After looking at the work of Louise Nevelson the 8th grade made their own version using scraps of cardboard and glue. They were able to achieve the play of space and composition often seen in Nevelson's work. She also used exclusively black, white and gold paint.

Little Artist

1st grade made small versions of themselves painting a picture of a vase with flowers. While they were working I asked them to tell me why they like art. If you look close you can see their response in the word bubble.

Peacock is Coming Along

Should be ready soon to hang up!!!

Penguins

  

K2 did a little drawing lesson using simple shapes and lines. With a letter u two circles and some triangles they made some great penguins. Just in time for winter. We decided after looking at different types of penguins to make ours the Emperor penguin. The can grow to be 42" tall! Some of the student got to draw what other things are about that same size. 

Large Scale Pointillism

I have a big container of these small black rubber circles that have been sitting around. Finally I came up with a project to use them. The 7th grade is working together to make a large scale version of the peacock head in pointillism style using the circles. Next week will be the big moment when they put it all together. The finished piece should be 40 x 50!

The Mitten

The K2 class watched a story video of The Mitten by Jan Bret. This was our inspiration to make tissue paper college mittens. The next week they learned about color value. Staring with purple they added more and more white tempera paint to make a light value of purple for the background.

Giant Squid

On Christmas Eve in Japan there was a giant squid siting. Even though they grow to 43 ft. long they are rare to see. They live deep in the ocean. The second grade class watched some the rare video of the giant squid to get prepped for making their own. They used tempera paint, egg cartons and bubble wrap to invade our hallway with many squid.

Eric Carle

 

The first grade and I watched a video animation of the story "Papa, Please Get Me the Moon" by Eric Carle. Then the students painted the background and sponge painted the moon. After drying the next week they constructed a version of the book cover and added a picture of themselves climbing up the ladder to the moon. The face on the moon was made with black chalk pastel.

Balancing Robots

Look at these wacky 4th graders. They got a little science and art with the balancing robot project. There is a secret in the hands of the robots that helps them to balance.

I hope they are having fun with them at home.

Cracked Wall

The 7th grade watched a video that showed step by step how to draw a wall cracked to show exposed bricks. Everyone did an excellent job. We would stop the video and I would work individually with the students to point out adjustments to make. They handled the shading and rendering quite well.

ATC (Artist Trading Cards)

It's that time again. The 3rd grade class made art trading cards to exchange with the Murphy School in Weymouth. We ended up with about 50 cards! 

Can't wait to see what the 3rd graders at Murphy did for us.

Fringe Tree Transformed

The  K2 made an excellent Christmas tree for the art room and we had it all decorated with ornaments they made. Every year I like to transform the tree into something else after Christmas is over. This year I made it into a lady with a bee hive hair-do. Then I used dyed coffee filters the students made and turned them into bows for her hair. I think we will have her hair covered in bows soon.

Vikings

With the release of Rick Riordan's new series about Norse Mythology I thought it would be a good time to work on some Viking projects with 5th grade. Here are a few that are ready to view. Next week I will have more to post. The students used step by step directions to draw a basic long ship. The ship was colored with colored pencils and the sky was done with watercolor.

Symmetry

The 6th grade and I talked about what things we can find around us with symmetry. As an exercise the students got a half picture of an animal, bug or object on a piece of drawing paper. They were then asked to draw the mirror image. First with pencil then add color pencil. I have just a few here to show off. We had many that came out excellent.