Showing our colors!

We are starting off the year with a collaborative school-wide mural. Every student in grades 1-5 will make a colorful diamond to go into our "quilt." These are the diamonds from students that had art on our first day of school.

The idea for this mural was generously shared by a super star art teacher from California, website here: http://www.shinebritezamorano.com/2015/09/a-colorful-beginning.html

Kindergarten Sea Creature Pictures! Pop out collage turtles and Crazy Sharks!

Grade 4 Bodies in Motion Linoleum prints:

Grade 4 Cocoa cup paintings. We had lots of fun with these! They learned about making a round object appear 3 dimensional in a drawing, and layering paint to show patterns. So colorful!
I found the lesson here: http://arteascuola.com/2012/10/a-cup-of-fantasy/

Hearts! We love February! These were made by Grade 1 artists. They formed pinch bowls out of earth clay, poked in patterns with a toothpick. Once they were fired, we colored them with crayon and liquid watercolors. 

Me in My Snow Clothes

by Grade 1. These were drawn in waterproof black marker, after a lesson in drawing the human body, all bundled up in snow gear. They painted them with tempera paint, with a focus on using small amounts of paint at a time and blending their own colors. 

                                      

Arts from Antiquity! 3rd graders studied artifacts from Ancient Egypt, then imagined themselves as a member of Egyptian society, 4000 - 5000 years ago. They colored the drawings with crayon, crackled the picture by scrunching it into a ball, then dipped it into a bath of black watercolor to make it look aged. They touched it up with a bit of precious gold paint for luster.