Art Teacher Collaboration!

Sharon and I have recently collaborated on a VERY fun project - The Living Totem, an exhibit at 2TEN Hausestudio, featuring over 20 local artists.

We first worked together creating the design for our totem pole on a 6 foot board that will hang on display at the gallery.

 

Beginning our tree totem

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After 6 hours of painting in the rain... ta-da!

What a wonderful experience working together on this project.

 I can't wait to work with Sharon on more fun things like this!

Exhibition opening - October 14th.

5th Grade - Eyeballs!!!

That's right... eyeballs!

We have been working on our self portraits the past few classes and today we focused on drawing eyes.

EYEBALLS!

Wonderful job shading!

Here is the video we watched and drew along with.

Next week we will work on mouths and ears and then put all of the elements together!

Sandpipers - Magnificent Landscapes & a sweet pup

Sandpipers are nearing completion on our oil pastel landscapes and boy, they look AMAZING!! Can't wait for them to be on display - heres a sneak peak. 

We also had a visitor join us in the Art room today! 

Kindergarten - Sunflowers

Kindergartners looked at the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh. We were so inspired by his sunflower paintings that we decided to give it a whirl. (Thanks Costco for the beautiful flowers!)

Exploring the colors and shapes of the flowers.

We used oil pastels to draw the centers of the flowers, the petals and the stems.

Workin' big on the floor!

 

Ta-da!

Celebrating Day of Peace - Seahorses

Seahorses also joined in on spreading messages of Peace.

Chalk in hand, ready to go!

Love and peace to all!

Celebrating Day of Peace

How lucky are we that our school recognizes the significance of awareness to creating Peace!

International Day of Peace. 

Sandpiper students celebrated by creating beautiful chalk drawings. 

The timing of this was wonderful, since we have been working on blending oil pastels - students were able to use some of the same knowledge to blend the chalk - I love it when projects are educational and fun!

Chalky hands - signs of a great artist!

Osprey - Drawing pencils

Osprey have been exploring the use of different drawing pencils. Students made value scales in their sketchbooks to see how each pencil worked. 

 We discovered how 2H pencils are great for drawing details while 6B are excellent for adding a soft shadow

We will soon put this knowledge to use on a value drawing project. 

Bob Ross Remix

Here is a little weekend treat......

I believe, I believe everyday is a good day when you paint
I believe, I believe it will bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart.

 PBS Source

See you Monday! :)

Kindergarten- Outdoor Drawing

We just couldn't pass up the gorgeous weather today! 

Kindergarten took their sketchbooks and pencils outside to do observation drawings of the gardens around our school. 

3rd & 4th - oil pastel blending

Practicing blending techniques in our sketchbooks. Next we will put these skills to use in a completed piece of artwork. Great job!

Seahorses - Positive & Negative Space

One of the first steps in teaching children to create interesting compositions is to discover how space is broken up through the use of positive and negative space.

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1st & 2nd grade looked at how artists use positive and negative space to divide a composition by cutting shapes out of bright colored paper. There were a lot of "ooo"'s and "ahhh"'s as these pieces came together!

Next, we will continue our look at pos. & neg. space by creating more detailed compositions.

Middle School - Singletary Lake Retreat

The annual Rules Process Retreat at Singletary Lake is one of my favorite Friends School traditions! I love watching our Middle School students treat each other with such respect as they listen to each other and work together to create the rules that will be followed throughout the school year.

I wanted to extend this theme of collaboration to the art project created on the trip.This year each student was given 1/4 of a circle and used oil pastels and watercolors to create warm and cool colored designs.

Warm colors were used for the inside of the circles, and cool colors for the outside.

The oil pastels created a "resist" effect when painted over with watercolors.

Thanks to our "sophisticated" 8th graders for doing the layout and hanging the artwork!

Our hallway is so bright and cheery with these hanging up!