4th grade Ceramic Masks

The Fourth graders explored masks from different cultures. They created a textured mask shape from a clay slab and added silly facial features. After the clay was fired, the students colored with oil pastels and then painted with black paint that they quickly rinsed to fill-in the textures. Finally, the students could add a gloss coating, yarn, wire and/or beads.

     

Painting on Snow!!

The Transitional-Kindergarten students had so much fun painting with liquid watercolors on snow. When the snow trays were filled with color, we printed on paper and saw magical results. 

Andy Warhol American Artist study

As part of the Second Graders' Culture Study, the teachers requested a focus on an American Artist as well. So this year we learned about Andy Warhol and how he silk- screened multiple "pop" images. The students printed their handprints and then reworked them to alter the colors. They also designed their own "Carmel" Soup cans in honor of Warhol's Campbell Soup Art.

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.