Art Club Little Houses

Art club created tiny houses out of clay.  After they come out of the kiln the students will paint the houses to show all of their tiny details.

Geometric and Organic Robots

The first grade has been learning about geometric and organic shapes.  They have been creating robots composed of shapes.  

They began by drawing two robots with organic and geometric shapes.

Next they deconstructed their drawing and drew each shape of their robot on a separate piece of paper.

Last they colored, cut, and glued their shapes together to create the robot.  

Kate Zoetrope

The second grade has been working with an early form of animation called a Zoetrope.

Zoetrope

Zortrope

The second grade has been making zoetrope animations.
Click on this link to see zoetrope of a bunny jumping


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwirimZbanWHTkdmZ2xhTldnRTQ/edit?usp=sharing

Printing Symbols

The Kindergarten students are learning about symbols.  They are learning that symbols are pictures that have meanings without words.

 Each student draws their own symbol.  Next they draw that symbol on Styrofoam.  Then the students print their symbol 4 times on a 12x12 piece of paper. 

After printing, the students can color on top of their print with oil pastels.   The prints can then be woven together by the students. 

 

 All sides of the paper must be hole punched.

 The finished wall tapestry will be hung on the wall.

Clay Mask

The first grade has been learning about masks from around the world. they are making masks that are inspired by the Georgia artist Kimmy Cantrell . He creates beautiful ceramic masks.

 After learning about masks from around the world the students design their masks using geometric and organic shapes shapes.  

The next step is to make the mask out of clay.  First the students flatten the clay with the palm of their hand and then roll the clay to make it even.  Using a skewer the students cut the shape of the face and the facial features out of the clay.

Using the slip and score technique they attach the facial features. 

 Bone dry work is fired and then painted.






It is so amazing to watch the students take a drawing and bring it to life with clay!  All of their drawings look so much like their finished piece.

Animal Faces

 The second grade is working with lines and shapes to create animal faces.  First they draw the faces in pencil.  

Next the students trace over the face with a black marker.

The last step is to paint the face and scene with tempera paint. 
They love this project because they get to choose any animal. 

When they are finished each student will write about what types of lines and shapes they used to create their animal.  This will be their Square 1 project.