Grade 4 Christmas bulbs

Grade 4 created the illusion of brightly shining lights with chalk pastel!

Grade 3 Christmas ornaments

Grade 3 is creating these beautiful holiday works of art with watercolor and oil pastel!

Grade 5 color and pattern study

Grade 5 is currently studying 2 color groups: monochromatic and complimentary. They will soon be adding in patterns from "ZenTangle".

Grade 4 monochromatic colors

Grade 4 studied the concept of monochromatic colors using acrylic paint. Beautiful winter paintings!!!

5th grade wire sculpture

Grade 5 studied artist Alexander Calder (American artist famous for wire sculpture) as well as the adjective "whimsical". Together with these concepts- we created whimsical wire sculptures!!!

Pre-K visits Grade 3

Grade 3 Mr Smith's class mentored Ms. Kiran's pre-K students today in art class! Together they created imaginary creatures out of a variety of materials. It was great fun!

Amazing wire sculpture grade 5

This student created the words "stay strong" out of wire for a family member who is fighting cancer. Can you say AMAZING????? Grade 5. 

Congrats to all the students chosen for this year's Japanese Art Exchange!! From Mrs. Adkison's art classes are: Senay Grade 4, Ainsley Grade 3, and Andrew Grade 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx0B20CxCA&list=PLEV7DPMLd3fJxgIpIm8ZwRmP51R9D_H1O

Grade 4 Vases: now displayed near IS office as well as Central Admin!

Grade 4 students are creating beautiful vases from recycled bottles!!

Please send in newspaper!

We need lots of newspaper throughout the year! Please send in the Straights Times ("Today" doesn't work for our needs)  thanks!!!!

Ron burns with oil pastels

Grade 3 Ron Burns Study

Grade 3 is studying American artist Ron Burns.  Ron Burns paints dogs and cats in animal shelters and donates his money to animal shelters.  His style of painting is called "Fauvism".http://www.ronburns.com/about/index.html

Making progress!!

Making progress on bottle cap mural!!

Grade 5 Wire Sculpture

Grade 5 created these sculptures from panty-hose, wire hangers, styrofoam and paint. They were learning abstract expressionism- this their shape and color choices should represent a particular emotion.

Grade 4 Birds Nests

Grade 4 has created beautiful Robin's nests using acrylic paint!

Bottle Cap Mural

We are plugging away at our bottle cap mural!! There will be 6 panels...about 12 feet x12 feet and 5,000 caps! Please keep the caps coming!!!

Hello Parents! Ms. Laura and I came up with the idea of the preschoolers visiting the "big art room" and being mentored by the "big kids".  I had the pleasure of inviting the pm preschoolers to my art classroom on TUESDAY and on Thursday I saw the AM preschoolers.  We had a terrific time! They buddied up with older students (PM with Grade 3 -Ms. Perdana's Class and AM with Grade 5- Ms. Smith's Class),  With their partners, they created imaginative creatures (aliens, monsters or magical creatures) using a variety of materials such as: modeling clay, google eyes, pipe cleaners and craft sticks.  We named our creatures and even had puppet shows with them!  It was a great collaborative effort and we really got to use our imaginations! I was so happy with the results of this "experiment".  My 3rd grade and 5th grade students were such wonderful teachers and mentors to the little ones, and they really encouraged their creative minds and imaginations. A great success!! If you saw your magical creature coming home with you....and perhaps an arm or a leg has fallen off, please explain to them that the most important thing was that we had fun creating these creatures and that they were not meant to last forever.  You can encourage them to crumple them up and make a new creature!!!!  If you are looking to foster art in your home....modeling clay, google eyes, pipe cleaners, craft sticks, feathers and dried pasta are a great start for your art room as those materials can be made into almost anything!!!!

Please see my Blog for photos of this event!!!

Have a Great Weekend!!!

Erika