Fifth Grade Koi Fish

Students in fifth grade created these crayon and watercolor paintings to show movement in their work. Students used images of Koi fish to discover what shapes they were made of. Students were encouraged to add waterlilies and wave ripples to the surface of their work.

Second Grade Crazy Chameleons

Second Graders painted an ABC pattern of three colors on a triangular shaped paper. They they added stamped textures with a variety of colors on top. The triangles were folded and cut to create the bended, curved shape that you see. Students used a variety of scraps of paper to cut and fold and glue the head, arms and legs together. It was fun to see how happy they were to make these! Most even gave their new friend its very own name!

Japanese Cherry Blossom Trees

In April, we created Cherry Blossom trees using watered down tempera paint and straws. Students painted the basic branches of their tree and then used the straw to "blow" branches. Fourth Grade loved how fun it was to see the tree develop! We used q-tips and pink, red and white paint to stamp our cherry blossoms on top. To complete this work, students wrote an original Haiku to write at the bottom of their work. The perfect connection between art and poetry! Beautiful!

Third Grade Still Life Vases

Third grade art standards expect students to be able to tell the difference between still life, portrait and landscape. We have focused a lot of our year on different landscapes and portrait work. For this piece, students used symmetrical cutting to make their vase and organic shapes when drawing their flowers. We painted the background one color, or with a pattern.

Best song ever....so I named my Blog after it....

I love the lyrics to this song......so beautiful......
In this world you have a soul for a compass and a heart for a pair of wings...
for the rest of the time that you are given, why walk when you can fly? 

Kindergarten Primary Color Caterpillar Collage

Kindergarten students are starting to learn about Primary Colors. We read the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carl and discuss how he paints papers and then cuts and glues them back together to make the images in his books. We then take our primary colored paper and cut shapes to make our caterpillars and glue the shapes in an ABC pattern. Once this project is finished, we will make Secondary butterflies in which the students will be mixing their primary colors to see which colors they create. We use our cutting and folding skills from our sculpture hats to add details to the caterpillar and the sun. More images to come once complete!

Kindergarten Rainbow Fish

This is a project that we do every year in Kindergarten art. It is a good tie to our character traits that are discussed in Guidance as well. We read the story Rainbow Fish together and then use basic shapes and line designs to create our own rainbow fish. To complete the project, we add some sequins to the scales to show the rainbow fish's special scales. Students color most of the project with crayons and paint the background with blue tempera.