Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Grade 8 Parade Sculptures







8th graders created parade floats with cardboard and recycled materials.  They had such creative ideas!

Grade 5 Watercolors




These watercolor paintings were created by 5th graders.  They each chose a place that they wanted to portray.  Compositions were drawn, lines were inked and then they painted them in with watercolors.

Friday, February 11, 2011

Color Mixing Warm-ups


Reductive Linoleum Carving





These 4 color prints are examples of the reductive linoleum carving process.  My 6th graders love this project.

Monoprint


This is a monoprint created by a 6th grader.  He painted the original image on a piece of plexiglass and printed it onto construction paper.  After the paint had dried, he worked back into the image with oil pastel.  It is one of my favorite pieces that a student has monoprinted.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Sand Mandalas






These are a few examples of the 6th grade sand mandalas that we did last spring.  The students watched videos of Tibetan sand painting and carefully planned out their designs.  They worked so hard on them and it took quite a while, but everyone loved working with the sand... it was a new media for them.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Computer Compilations




These photos were taken by the student artists and then rendered creatively in Adobe Photoshop.