8th Grade: Low Relief Sculptures

8th grade learned about low relief sculptures. A relief sculpture means that the sculpture is mostly really view form one side, rather than a sculpture you view "in the round". A low relief means it only pops out only a little at you. An example of a low relief sculpture would be a coin.

For our low relief sculptures we used cardboard and created different landscapes. Students were required to have at least four layers. They could incorporate whatever other materials they would like. 

Kindergarten: Baby Jesus in the Manger

Kindergarten: Winter fox

6th Grade:Monochromatic Mandalas

A mandala is a radial design, representing life. It is often used for meditation purposes found in the Hindu or Buddhist religion. Students designed their own Mandala, using rulers and compasses to start the radial design. Monochromatic means one color. Students were also challenged to paint to mandalas using one color, mixing their own tints and shades. Students learned a tint of a color means to add white and a shade of a color means to add black.

Kindergarten: Owls

Students created their owl sculptures using model magic. We painted them with water color paints. We used a really cool technique with washable grey markers and water to create our big full moons. The background has chalk pastels and splattered white paint for the stars.

4th Grade: Pinch Pot Turkey Bowls

4th Grade: Leaf Patterns

Fourth Grade took a look of examples of art that either has some type of pattern or repetition. We talked about fabric and how if you cut a square out of fabric the pattern would look as though it would continue at the line where we cut. That was our goal for these leaf patterns, to look as though they were cut from a larger piece. The pattern was to continue off the page.
First, students made a tracer for their leaf. Some made two tracers to have two types of leaves. Then they came up with some type of pattern. Some chose a radial design (circular) some went horizontal and some were diagonal across the page. The background was colored with black oil pastel and the leaves were water color painted.

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)