Saturday, September 21, 2013

Sea Mural




 
 
The 3rd and 4th grades made this sea mural for the hallway board. The 3rd grade was in charge of the water and seaweed. The water was created with painting bubble wrap and making prints. The seaweed was made by painting green paint then dragging combs through the paint to make texture.
Both classes created their own fish by mixed media of crayons and collaged paper.

Primary Colors


 
I am so excited to welcome the new K2 students to art class. We started off by learning the primary colors. I think they had fun paint gluing the primary tissue paper and seeing what new colors they can make by having the paper overlap. Next class we are going to cut them out in a leaf shape to celebrate the coming of fall.

Stubby Pencil Art

 
Well actually this was done in June. We save all the tiny pencils that can no longer be used for drawing and give them new life. The then 6th graders had to glue a stubby to a piece of white board then find a creative way to incorporate it into a black and white illustration. I added that the simpler the image the more impact it will have.
I had them stored away over the summer so we could have something to display right away in September.

Line variety and watercolors


 
It's times like this that I am thankful to have a great room to teach art in. We can use paints so much easier. Here the first grade class started with oil pastels and followed along with me drawing a different style of line (wavy, zig zag,dashed, ect.) Each time using a new color. They did an outstanding job following direction. Next the watercolors where used to fill in the shapes made by the lines. Thanks to everyone who donated plastic egg containers, as you can see they make great paint holders.

Finished Circle Painting


 
Here are two examples of the final circle paintings by the 7th graders. After the painting was done they added more interest with crayons and oil pastels. The larger paintings are about six feet long. They did a great job, I love the way they look in the hallway.


Thursday, September 12, 2013

Art from Home

 
 
Thanks to William in 3rd grade for sharing his art. Quite creative!

Jumping right in, Circle Painting




Circle Painting is a group based project that is based off using just circles and lines. It was invented by artist Hiep Nguyen to bring communities together to make art. The 7th grade class did a great job on their own circle paintings.

Saturday, August 31, 2013

First week of school

 
 
I'm looking forward to the first week of school.
We have lots of creative projects in store for the up coming year.
 
I miss all the students and can't wait to see them.
 
Mrs. Scannell-