COLOR PENCIL-creating a design with contrasting colors Creating a design with WHITE CHARCOAL on black paper and BLENDING OIL PASTEL in a design GEL PEN designs with shape and line Last week in the art studio students rotated around the upper school art studios blending oil pastels at one table, creating contrasting designs with color … Continue reading
5th graders were asked to create a dish or container to hold a bar of soap in the art room. They thought of a shape and design, and had to solve how to keep the soap from falling off and how to drain the water off of the soap. Here are a few that have … Continue reading
3rd graders created paper mache animals that were cut in half, hollowed out and finished with paper mache to become containers with a top and bottom. They painted and decorated them as if they were lacquered Burmese or Asian lacquerware. Now that they are going home what will they keep in them??? Continue reading
Lucy’s painting is the lake scene above her head! Fifth graders painted memorable places this year. Dmitri’s painting is the birch trees painting. Madoka is standing below her animal symbol drawing. Third graders made observational drawings of an animal and symplified their drawing to create a symbol showing the important parts of the animal. … Continue reading
Second graders are finishing up their animals in motion paintings in the art room with Ms. Kirsten! Here are a few…more to come. Continue reading
3rd grade students explored different brush strokes using sumi ink and bamboo brushes in the art room. They learned that a variety of values from light to dark could be created using more or less water to the sumi ink. Students created beautiful ink painting studies of daffodils and eucalyptus plants. Check them out!! Continue reading
