French Spool Knitting - 3rd Grade

Finger knitting and weaving - 5th Grade
*Work in Progress

Stitching a Star - Kindergarten

Weaving with fabric and yarn - 2nd Grade

Our little fingers have been B-U-S-Y! 

We are gearing up for a school-wide yarn bombing inspired project. All students, grade K-5, will be making a knitted, woven or stitched artwork that will be part of a collaborative piece.

"I am sneaky like a fox." - Ischeel

 "I am wild like a wolf." - Banyan

"I am loud like a Siamese cat." - Bella

"I am intelligent like an owl." - Camille

Cardinal mask - Exavier

"I am sneaky like a raccoon." - Miles

"I am fast like a zebra." - Natiyah

"We are quiet like koala bears." - Jackie and Leisli

"I am excitable like a puppy." - Nora

"I am aggressive like a leopard seal." - Wyatt

Second grade students spent six class periods working on these masks and oh how it was worth it. The masks are fantastic and the students were really proud of their work. Each student started out writing three adjectives to describe themselves, and then they chose an animal that shared each characteristic. Finally, they selected one of the three animals to represent them and wrote a simile comparing themselves to that animal. They are made of paper mache. Each student constructed their own armature under the paper mache, then painted and embellished the masks with pastels, felt, fur, feathers and the like.

Second grade, January - February 2015

Fourth grade students are finishing up their still lifes this week. They are so good - it makes me really excited. I thought that Elliott did an amazing job with his. The composition is wonderful; it has movement, variety and is just really interesting to look at. I'll post a few more in the coming days.

Fourth Grade, March 2015

Fourth grade students are in the process of creating one of each of the three traditional subjects in art: portrait, landscape and still life. For the still life, we set up an intricate display, used viewfinders, made thumbnail sketches, and then focused on one more-involved drawing. Here are a couple of beauties from today.

Charlotte (top), Ned (bottom), Fourth Grade, March 2015

Fifth Grade Art Club students created these amazing one-point perspective bird's eye view drawings of cities. I feel like they could have worked on these forever - they were so focused and loved adding crazy and surprising details.

Fifth Grade, January 2015

Fourth grade students created these beautiful collograph prints this week. First they glued textured materials to a board, making a landscape. We had fun finding usual materials to represent the different textures. They used principles such as diminishing size and overlapping to help create the illusion of space in their compositions. Then they pulled prints from their plates, creating these surprising, abstracted images.

Fourth Grade, January 2015

I'm so proud of my drawing club students this semester. They worked really hard on some pretty demanding drawing exercises that encouraged them to look closely and to draw what they see. They went from drawing symbols of things to drawing things as they see them. Here are some before and after self-portraits. The first one was drawn in August and the second in December after weekly drawing instruction. Way to go Drawing Club!