The Art Department Takes Over the Display Case

We have just finished up the first quarter of the school year. I was looking for a place to put all of the beautiful sculptures the middle schoolers have been working so hard on. After all, people needed to see them! I was granted permission to replace all of the old trophies in the display case with a temporary exhibition. The sculptures fit in well as trophies in and of themselves. I am so proud of what we accomplished and this is the perfect place to show them off!

Excuse the poor picture quality, my camera broke this week and I am trying to make do!

Gelli Print Collages

What may be my last elementary art project… gelli print collages! I was super excited to try out my newly acquired gelli plates with elementary students this year. I collected a variety of colourful fruit and vegetables and we used analogous colour pairings of purple, red, orange, yellow and green to explore texture printing. We did a practice still life drawing first, and then I had students choose from our collective printed papers to create individual fruits. We drew outline shapes on the backside of the paper, cut them out, arranged and glued them down onto black paper. Each student did at least three different fruit shapes and had to overlap at least two of them in their composition. I also encouraged them to add stems and other details at the end. The final results: bright, colourful, and texturized compositions!

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Clay Monsters

Kinder+Senior Collaboration

I was able to teach kindergarten once this quarter. I had the little ones draw the scariest monster that they could imagine, though some of the monsters turned out to be more cute than anything… I showed the drawings to my senior high school students and had them choose one to recreate in clay. They turned out really great, I  made one too!