Winter Birds

2nd grade uses up every last minute of art class to finish these fabulous mixed-media bird collages!

Neighborhood Shapes

1st Grade shows us what their neighborhood looks like, using simple shapes, cutting triangles from squares, and using line pattern to add fine details to their neighborhood story. 

African Safari Silhouettes

5th Grade creates beautiful sunsets using watercolor techniques to create an African Silhouette scene. This project challenges the way we look at a shape, and how to pay attention to the negative space around and inside a shape. 

Crocodile Shapes

This lesson was a very important learning experience for Kinders. And an honor for me to be a part of this experience. Practicing scissor dexterity and recognizing shapes are both very important foundations in art, and rewarding for the students because "Yes! You can do it!"

Rainbow Fish

3rd Grade listens to the story, "Rainbow Fish" and has fun cutting and tearing paper to piece together their very own Rainbow Fish.

California Missions - Van Gogh Style

 

4th Grade tears paper to "build" a CA Mission while recognizing geometric and organic shapes. We learned how to draw a landscape in the impasto style of Vincent Van Gogh. 

Keith Haring, 2 Ways!

5th grade learns about artist Keith Haring. We are doing this project in 2 parts. This first part resembles Haring's subway drawings on black paper. 

Caps For Sale! $0.50 a Pop!

1st grade draws a bunch of hats stacked on top of their own heads. Sombreros, cowboy hats, barrettes, you name it! 

LINES UNDERGROUND

3rd grade uses their imaginations to draw layers of the earth, using symbolic lines, and different weights of line. 

Line Patterned Cats

2nd Grade draws overlapping cats, filled with various kinds of line patterns to show movement.  Inspired by California artist Laurel Burch, these cats were having a party!

Line Patterned Snails

Kindergarten listens to the story "Biggest House in the World" by Leo Leonni, and looks for line patterns on the snail's growing shell...

CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS

4th grade kicks off the year learning how to draw  Native Plants from visual references, using contour lines and visual texture. We developed our drawings in 3 stages...

Van Gogh Sunflowers

Today I had the pleasure of teaching my friend's first art lesson of the school year! Her awesome 5th grade class was nice to work with especially given the nice facility loaded with materials to use and ample space!