Finished "Feathered Friends!"

Our first class of kindergarten artists has finished up their "feather friend" paintings with some details added with crayon, feathers, and google eyes!

First Grade Seascapes

This project took two sessions to complete. During the first class the students painted their sky and ocean, using tempera paint blended together. We blended blue and green for our water and red and orange to create a sunset in the sky. While the paint was still wet, students added waves in the water and clouds and suns in the sky. During our second work session we created a boat using collage materials.

Kindergarten "Feathered Friends"

This lesson began a drawing lesson in which our kindergarten artists had to carefully follow a set up instructions for creating these simple birds. In our next class session we painted them in using pastel tempera paints. The students enjoyed blending colors together to create new varieties to use. Next session....feathers and googly eyes!

Painting the Taco Fish...

Second graders are finishing up their "taco fish" by painting them with watercolors. They are bright and beautiful!

Weavings continued...

Most of our 5th grade artists are in the process of removing their weavings from their cardboard looms and adding embellisments:

"Taco Fish" in progress...

Our first class of second graders have made their "taco fish!" Who knew that fish could have so much character? Soon they'll be fired and painted and ready to swim home with our students. To create the fish, our artists had to use their fine motor skills to manipulate the clay in many different ways. Pinching, rolling, and flattening are just a few of the techniques that were used to construct them. Stay tuned for the pictures of the finished pieces...

Fourth Grade Non-Representational Designs

These simple, but interesting works were created after our students studied the differences between representational, abstract, and non-representational art. Representational being the kind of art that shows objects that are easily recognizable, such as a portrait or a landscape. Non-representational art shows no ojects at all but is more concerned with lines, colors, and shapes (the above artworks are examples of this type of art.) Abstract art may start with recognizable objects, but they are in some way distorted or changed. Think of a portrait by Picasso, for example, in which the nose and mouth and eyes may be in the wrong places!