BAROQUE STYLE PORTRAITS

3rd grade uses images of the grandeur, rhythmic and ornamented clothing worn in the Baroque period (c. 1600) as well as examples of elaborate designs used in architecture of this time period to draw a self-portrait of themselves. If you lived in this time period, what would your hat and outfit look like?!

PICASSO PORTRAITS

These portraits are inspired by "Portrait of Dora Maar" by Pablo Picasso - famous for rendering multipule perspectives in his portraiture. 4th graders used color symbolism and color theory to show us a hint of their inner selves. Take a peek!

ERNST KIRCHNER - FOREST MURAL

Room 23

3rd graders have each been working diligently on class murals, studying German Expressionist Ernst Kirchner. Each student gets a thumbnail of his painting, and uses proportion to enlarge it using oil pastel. The key to a comprehensive mural is to work with your neighbors!

VAN GOGH IRISES

2nd graders are in some serious competition with Van Gogh... Take a look at all the different ways each student renders a "stoke", how they illustrate movement, and how they perceive Van Gogh's Painting.!! Love these. 

SUNFLOWER BOWLS

2nd grade displayed how capable and smart they are with these Sunflower Bowls. This project required your brain to think about positive and negative space and to conceptualize in 3D before achieving a final product. It is the process that counts! 

PERIMETER, AREA AND...ART!

Inspired by Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie", 4th grade teachers asked if I could do an art project to learn visually through the arts how to find Perimeter and Area in Geometry. We used graph paper to grid design our neighbo-rhoods..Really neat idea!

BUBB ART SHOW!

Bubb Elementary School

Bubb's Art Show was very fun for me - meeting parents, seeing reactions, hearing conversation. Unfortunately, Bubb's entire A4S program was not featured, as their program doesn't end until May. :( But! A truly amazing compilation. 

Special thanks my MOM Brooke Miller, and to Annett Trail's phenomenal ability to organize volunteers to help us get the show on the road! 

Japanese Buddhist Temples

 Art Club is working on these awesome drawings of Japanese Buddhist Temples inspired by images of real Temples in Japan. Some students made visual associations with the temple architecture and Christmas Trees, the "Tower of Pizza" and more. Check it out :)

Gestural Figure Drawing

This week, 3rd grade learned how to draw their classmates using loose spirals which is taught in high school and college! It was very fascinating to observe how each student has a unique line drawing style. It was also beautiful to know that young people are so incredibly capable of much more advanced approaches to drawing from observation.

Aboriginal Dot Maps

Art Club "maps" out a special place or memory significant to them, using wooden dowels to "dot" areas of their maps with Jazz tempura paints. This project is influenced by Aboriginal artists from Australia who paint, "dreamtime paintings". 

Contour Shoes

4th graders warmed up for this project with a blind contour exercise - no looking! This exercise forces your eye to look even closer when drawing from observation because you cannot see your paper!  

Andy Warhol Endangered Species

4th Grade chooses a complimentary pair of colors to discover what happens when you mix them together. We used Andy Warhol's prints from his Endangered Species Series for inspiration. These kids' talent blow my mind! 

Pinch Pot Cupcakes

3rd grade learns how to make a pinch pot, in fact 2, to make cupcake bowls with a lid. 

 

 

Dragons, Dragons!

2nd Grade dives into their imaginations to draw and paint a Dragon. We learned how to mix secondary colors and how to use the back of our paint brushes for a non-conventional way to texturize our fire-breathing friends!

LIFE SIZE Sarcophagi!

ART CLUB takes the scale to LIFE SIZE. Working in table groups, students learned about the cultural significance and purpose of these Egyptian Coffins AND also practicing teamwork by communicating with each other affectively and fairly as a team!

California Missions

4th Grade learns and reviews watercolor techniques to mix different values of brown to render these beautifully drawn and painted Missions 3-Dimensionally!

Tiffany Lamps

3rd Grade reviews how to mix secondary colors, and learns how to mix tertiary colors to paint the beautiful glass on our Tiffany Lamps!

Chinese New Year Dragons

Art Club explores the  massive, colorful Chinese Dragon of the New Year Parade with these fantastic puppets!

Greek Vases

Great turn out with these Greek Vases!! This 2 week project started its focus learning about the architecture of Greece - including terms like column, capitals: doric, ionic, corinthian, Kraters and other kinds of Greek ceramics.

Winter Birds II

This is round 2 of the 2nd grade Shape lesson. After some practice getting the hang of the procedure in the first round, you can view it here, these Male Western Tanager's came out just as fantastic as the American Robin's and Buntings. The only difference is this group used a 2nd tree branch.

Concepts included were geometric shapes, overlapping shapes, ornamentation of shapes, and an introduction to 3-dimensional rendering of shapes.