Fourth Grade - O'Keefe Flowers

Fourth grade students are looking at the work of Georgia O'Keefe. Classes discussed her work as it relates to layout and color. Students used the close up and cropped layout ideas from O'Keefe's work to guide them as they created a design of a flower on their artworks. They traced their pencils lines with black glue, which gives a raised border to their shapes.

First Grade - Visual Texture Perspective

First grade students are beginning a project by exploring texture. Classes discussed the difference between texture that you can feel and texture that looks like it feels a certain way. Students created this "visual texture" int he background of their projects by painting with a variety of tools including sponges, toilet paper rolls, hair combs and pattern rollers.

Kindergarten - Clay Mittens

Kindergarten classes are experimenting with clay. After reading "The Missing Mitten Mystery" classes created their own mittens out of clay. After using a tracer to create a mitten shape out of a slab of clay, students created patterned textures. They finished the mitten with a cuff made from ball of clay which are attached using a scor, slip and pinching method.

Fifth Grade - Soft Sculpture Emojis

Fifth grade students are learning about color and how it affects mood and feeling. Classes discussed colors and how they are used in logos, restaurants and other areas in order to influence viewers. Students used this information to create emoji redesigns. They chose an emotion or feeling that they wanted to represent and used color, shapes and facial expression to portray the feeling. Students are using felt and yarn to create their designs.

Sixth Grade - Masks

6th grade students are looking at mask designs from around the world as inspiration for their next project. Classes are discussing uses for masks and ways that masks are important to different cultures. Students began by designing their own masks. They thought about a particular ceremony or event that the mask would be used for and created symbols and patterns that represented this event.

Fourth Grade - Finished Rousseau Collage!

Fourth grade finished up their Henri Rousseau collages by drawing animals and using watercolor to complete them. They cut their animals out and "hid" them among paper sculpted plants and leaves. Finally, students added a pop of warm colored flowers to stand out among the cool colored background.

Second Grade Trees

Second grade is doing a small project to build on what they have learned about perspective. This time, students are using various brushes and sponges to create a warm color painting. They use brown paint to add trunks, showing that longer and wider trunks appear close to the viewer, while shorter and thinner trunks which are centered on the paper appear to be further away.

Sixth Grade - Finished Portraits

Sixth Grade students are finishing up their self-portraits. After laying out their features and shading with pencil, students filled in the background. They chose symbols that represented themselves and, using analogous colors, filled in their backgrounds to add to the artwork about themselves.

Fifth Grade - Finished Still Life Compositions!

Fifth grade finished their contour line drawings by tracing their lines in ink and painting them with watercolor. They used analogous color washes to make sure that the paint did not detract from their lines.