3rd Grade Organic "Melt-Art" Sculptures

These amazing "melted" sculptures began life as a plain old plastic cup. After adding a bit of colored permanent marker and a bit of toaster oven "magic"....they were transformed into very unique organic sculptures. Each artist's piece is a little different than everyone else's, which we love! This lesson builds on a previous lesson in which our third graders learned about the artist, Henri Matisse and his love of organic and geometric shapes.

Fourth Grade "Trees of Life"

Gustave Klimpt was the famous artist that we studied for this project. His Tree of Life painting inspired us to create our own trees that will later have symbols on them representing elements of our lives such as family, pets, hobbies, etc... First our artists used watercolors to create a colorful background and then created their trees with black tempera paint.

Matisse-Inspired Collages

Our second and third grade artists have been studying the artwork of famous artist, Henri Matisse...especially his collages. We learned that he loved to use geometric and organic shapes and was not afraid of color. Second grade artists created their own collages using secondary colors and our third grade artists were asked to choose either warm or cool colors to use. These are looking fantastic!

A Brand New Year for ART!!!

I am so excited to have my student artists back in the Art Room hard at work! To start the year off in a BIG way, every student at Nelson contributed a small piece of art to help create this HUGE collaborative mural. We studied a famous painting titled "Squares with Concentric Circles" made by the artist Wassily Kandinsky and used it as inspiration for our own works. This mural sure does brighten up our Nelson hallway!

2nd Grade Taco Fish

They're all glazed up and looking beautiful! Our second grade artists created these "Taco Fish" using terra cotta clay and a variety of texture tools. They are formed in the shape of a taco with fins, eyes, and a tongue added for detail. Great job, second graders!!!

5th Grade Handmade Artist Books

This sample collection of papers will be turned into pages of our handmade Artist Books. Fifth graders will be exploring a variety of media and techniques to create a very personal collection of mini-artwork contained within a book that they will be making by hand.

Kindergarten Hand Print Paintings

These cute little artworks were created by our kindergarten artists using their hands as a stencil. Then they had to use a variety of line types to create patterns within the handprints. By pushing hard with their crayons, they were able to watercolor right over their image and still have everything "pop" from the page.