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 :)

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". 

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!

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.

Tap-Tap Cars

This week in Art Club we took a "trip" to Haiti, briefly talking and learning about the detriment and destruction of the earthquake in 2010. I told them that my brother is part of a Club ("just like we are!"), The Haiti Solidarity Club, through Los Altos High School. They are going back to Haiti coming up this February 2013 to contribute to the re-building projects. Here is a snippet about the student efforts in Haiti. This project is dedicated to my brother's voyage as well as the efforts of the teachers! and other students of the Solidarity Club.

Navajo Sand Painting

The Winter Art Club, "A World of Art" started this past week. We looked at the patterns and symbolisms used in Navajo Indian sand paintings and weavings.

Arcimboldo Self-Portraits

Our last day of the Spring Art Club consisted of being goofy and funny and making self-portraits using fruit and vegetable shapes.

Van Gogh Descriptive Line

I tried this lesson using Van Gogh's artwork,"A Fishing Boat At Sea".

Henri Rousseau Jungles

Favorite project ever!! The bright oil pastels with the liquid watercolor wash background really makes these nighttime jungle scenes come to life.

Calaveras Printmaking

Today November 1st is in Mexican tradition, Day of the Dead. We talked about the Mexican culture of venerating the dead, sugar skulls and the printmaker, Jose Posada.

Paul Klee Letter Painting

What a great way to have an art project that combines spelling, math and learning about your students!...This was a hit!

"Great Wave"

I LOVE Hokusai's print of Mt. Fuji - and I thought the kids could have some fun drawing the ocean waves in his print, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". The image has potential for imaginations to go wild, especially with the boats full of Japanese men who are about to be devoured by the huge ocean wave.

Rizzi Cities!

My Art Clubs are getting s-p-o-i-l-e-d this week! We are going to look at the fantastic pop artist, James Rizzi's.

Laurel Burch #2 Fantastic Felines

I did 3 different lessons on Laurel Burch's Fantastic Felines. This time, the class did one large cat with white pastel on black paper. If they had space, they could add more cats and flowers, as Laurel adds flowers, dragonflies and other background fun to her art.

Kandinsky Circles

Kandinsky's expressionist paintings are always a great avenue for a fun lesson on color.

Piet Mondrian Collages

Another kick off for my Art CLub theme of, "Learning from the Masters" was to examine Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie".

Keith Haring Figures

Excited to post the first projects from my first Art Clubs for this Fall! The theme for the Art Clubs this fall is, "Learning from the Masters"! This first project was a good lesson for "ice-breaking". We looked at artist, Keith Haring's Prints.