Marble Painting with pre-k

The Transitional K students had a blast painting with marbles. Inspired by Jackson Pollack's action splatter painting, they rolled paint-covered marbles over paper and stencils in a large box top experimenting in many ways. 

Winter Y trees in warm and cool colors

In the Art Room the 2nd and 3rd grade students learned how to draw “Y” trees by watching a YouTube video and then a demonstration. They did a masterful job with a limited color palette of either warm or cool color oil pastels and then the opposite color for their watercolor backgrounds. 

clay looms

The 6th graders made looms out of clay and added lots of texture to them. They used craypas, watercolor paints and gloss medium to create color and sheen. Then the students strung a loom through the holes and wove in the round to create radial designs. 

Middle School Art Club Participates in the Memory Project

I learned about the Memory Project while at a summer Art Educators' Conference. The organization provides photos of young refugee children for students to create realistic portraits and then returns them back to these children who have nothing much of their own. This felt like a huge responsibility for my students who took this challenge very seriously but they didn't give up. The charity sent us a video of the recipients-Rohingyan refugees who are now living in displacement camps in Bangladesh who now have a tangible image from their childhood.