7th & 8th grade- Art History Kites!!

Art History & Kites - honestly, I don't know what could possibly be any better.

Here are a few pictures of the in-progress kites... next week we will take them out to fly!!
Can you guess any of the artists?

7th Grade - silk screening!

Before our Washington, DC trip, 7th grade silk screened t-shirts. 

Quite lovely, aren't they?!

Truth be told, I have had very little ( very little...) experience with screen printing, however, I proceeded boldly, as is often the case. We came up with a design, scanned it and printed it on a transparency - which i had to explain to some of the kids what a transparency was - really? 

I bought a photo emulsion kit on amazon, used a frame and screen, and burned the screen using a lamp in my living room - it took about an hour with a 60 watt bulb. 

We really enjoyed this process - a lot of owwww's and ahhhh's! 

We were satisfied with the results... the bright blue was a dream while spotting kids on the metro in DC. :)