Category: color
The leaves are changing and the wind is starting to feel chilly; must be getting close to Halloween!
My younger students have been drawing and painting pictures of pumpkins! We first look at real pumpkins to examine their form; then we used a black oil pastel to draw what we observe. Second, we mix primary colors into secondary colors to get our beautiful greens and oranges! We paint our shapes! The next day we have art, we cut out our dry pumpkin paintings, collage them into both mini-scenes (individual work) and share out by collaging them also into a big-mural (community work).
Students also use their imagination by adding details to their work like: witches, ghosts, tombstones, bats, or even candies!
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Piñatas
Paper mâché, balloons, love, some candy. 7th grade rocks it.
Studying the artwork of Native Kuna Indians (of Panama and Colombia) students created their own molas. Some used layered paper collage; others took on the challenge of hand-sewing their animal, plant, abstract, or geometric design.
This project shows what students imagine would happen in a sequential natural disaster!
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Accordion Books grades 1-8
More samples of my amazing student’s art work. We have been recently working on our accordion books, a simple, four paneled structure that helps tell stories in logical sequence.
The following photographs are a random sampling from grades 1-8!
Some recent samples of clay coil pots, sculpted and painted by 7th graders.
Some finished work by talented 8th graders!
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Here are just a few samples of a recent paper collage project from grades 6-8!
Students made two separate collages…
One was representational and used only warm colors.
(Representational means that there is actually an image to see…
Warm colors are reds, oranges, yellows, golds, browns, red-purples…)
The other was abstract and used only cool colors.
(Abstract means there is not a literal picture or image… More emphasis is on composition, shape, and color…
Cool colors are blues, greens, silvers, blue-purples…)
Black and white aren’t considered warm or cool, really, but students were allowed to use them in either collage.
SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO OSCAR A. and KEVON G., room #325. These 7th grade volunteers helped put up the hallway display! What excellent leadership!
Here are some of the faces of TARKINGTON. We are amazing artists!
(Students used the wax & watercolor process and mirrors to draw from direct observation. For more info on this project, please see earlier posts!)
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