7th Grade: Dia De Los Muertos

Dia De Los Muertos ( Also known as Day of The Dead) is a Mexican holiday as a time when people believe their deceased ancestors can come back to visit. The holiday begins on October 31st and ends on November 2nd. To celebrate the holiday, family members decorate to graves of their loved ones with pictures and gifts. Sugar skulls are one of these decorations. They are colorfully decorated skulls. Traditionally they are made from real sugar.
7th grade used a thin sheet of gold metal to emboss (carve) the details of their sugar skulls. They then used colored sharpies to color.

2nd Grade: Warm and Cool Corn

Second grade learned about out warm and cool colors on the color wheel. Warm colors remind us of things that a warm and give off a warm feel, such as the sun, fire, lava, etc. Cool colors give off a cool vibe or feel to them, such as, the ocean, grass, etc.

We made Indian corn paintings in honor of harvest season. The corn was painted using our warm colors. (red, yellow, and orange) The background were painted using our cool colors. ( purple, blue, and green)

6th Grade: Glue Line Pumpkins

One simple way of showing space in an up close drawing is to over lap. In these fall themed drawings, students had to choose three fall items, with at least one being a pumpkin and overlap the items to show space. They also learned how to create shading using a light source and casting shadows on the ground. These are not any ordinary drawings because students used glue to draw the black outlines.

Kindergarten: Cave Drawings

What better way to start learning art history, than to start from the very beginning. Kindergarten did just that by studying the cave drawings of Lascaux Cave in France. we learned about what cave men used to create these paintings, and what types things they painted. It was mostly animals and hunters, including bulls, bison, deer, and horses.

Kindergarten used chalk pastels in the similar colors that cave men would have had. Each student crumpled brown paper to make their section of the cave wall. They then completed a large drawing of their animal and used their hand print to sign it, just like the Lascaux Cave.

First Grade: Fall Reflections

First grade created these beautiful fall reflections using acrylic paint and a form of printing called a "Mono print". This means that it can only be printed once, which is much different than other forms of prints where we can make multiple copies. We compared this to using a stamp that we can use many times.

Students used paint on one half of the paper and then folded in to create the reflection.

Kindergarten: Color Wheel snails

Understanding the color wheel is one of the fundamentals for these students in starting their artist journey. This is where they begin to understand how to colors relate to each other and how mixing them together will turn it out in future projects. We learned two basic groups of colors, the primary colors and the secondary colors.
To make our color wheels, we collected pieces of old magazines for each of our six colors. We glued these scraps to a paper plate in the correct rainbow order (some are going counter clockwise, but rainbow order non the less). When we completed our color wheel we painted a black rim around the plate. Students used oil pastels to draw their snail designs around the shell. We added so glitter to our snail shells to add a little more excitement.

3rd Grade: Picasso Monsters

Out artist inspiration for this project, was Pablo Picasso. Picasso created portraits of women, showing the face as if we were seeing it from the front as well as the side. We discussed why these portraits were strange and why when he was alive people did not accept them as much as after he had passed away.

In honor of Halloween being right around the corner, we made our portraits of either a witch, Frankenstein, or a vampire. The portraits were made to look as if half the face was looking at you and half was of the profile view. Students mostly used cut construction paper to create these creepy portraits.