Friday, January 30, 2015

SNOW!!


No art class this week.  :(
Blizzard of 2015.

Friday, January 23, 2015

Brag Board


Next time you come to the front office take a look to the right and see some of the standout artwork being produced in art class on the Sacred HeART board.

Snow Clouds



This took some time to put together, but the class had fun. We stared with a large piece of watercolor paper and a variety of scrap paper. We talked about collage and how to make a design using small pieces of paper. It took a whole class to fill the wc paper with glue and scraps. Next class was a lesson on how to draw snowflakes using letters. The students made four different snow flakes on small circles that were added to the finished collage cloud.

More Work in Progress



The second grade is working on a sculpture with painted water bottles. More to come...

Auction Items



The top image of a wheel barrow is in progress from the 4th grade class. They are adding roses. It's being done with layers of shades of red using stencils. The paint is made to withstand the outdoors. It's looking good!
The next item is from Kindergarten. The students fingerprints are the colorful leafs.

Work in Progress




I have a lot of classes in progress with projects so I don't have a much finish work to show this week. However here a peak at the fifth graders working on their one point perspective project. I should have some of the finished pieces to show next week.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Friendship Chain



Some of the 2nd grade girls brought this into class to show me. It's a friendship chain. Each friend draws a link and they all get attached to make a cool looking chain. I love it. 

Louise Bourgeois

This lesson started awhile ago. It began with a talk about the French artist Louise Bourgeois. Then the class spent three weeks building there own version of Bourgeois' famous spider sculpture.



We used wire, paper, tape and paint. I'm very happy with the way they came out. But I wanted an interesting way to display them. So I photographed each student and their sculpture and superimposed them together so show more of the proportion you would see with Bourgeois' sculpture. The students got creative with their poses.