Wrapping up the term!

Grade 4 has been doing plaster casting, after looking at Theo Jenson's "Strandbeests"!

Process! Wayne Thiebaud grade 3

Students stopped after they colored the "frosting" with cray pas.  SO hard to see shadows on our desks, so students put up their artwork on the white board, in the middle of drawing to have a look from far away!

Check Out Peabody Essex Museum in Salem MA... Strandbeest!! Awesome!!

New Year in Art Room!!

Above are pears the second graders  did from a small photo of a pear. We talked about shading with these three different mediums.


Left: First graders are working on self portraits!

In third grade we looked at "the False Mirror" by Rene' Magritte and created our own surreal landscape within the eye. We kept our focus on foreground middle ground and background.

In fourth grade we look at the piece by Ethan Murrow at the Boston 

ICA titled: Seastead and created a 1 point perspective sharpie drawing!

SEASTEAD by Ethan Murrow

ART SHOW 2015!!!!!

I use both the cafe' tables standing up AND foamier boards on tables

Check out this Bulletin Board that I did with Kindergarten. We looked at Louise Nevelson's work and created "Assemblages" using found materials. Then I put them all together like she did with her work!

We painted the small assemblages white using gesso

Grade 4 is starting their plaster MASKS! This time we did it outside and it was so much cleaner!!

Luckily we had a nice day!

YAM (Youth Art Month) is Here! At my school we have artwork at the MAEA show in Boston and at the Chelmsford Public Library!

http://www.massarted.com/yam.html

Opening is on March 22, 2015 from 12-4 so stay tuned for pictures!

Here is some work from the CPL show:

These sculptures are by grade 1 after they read the book: 

"Sandy's Circus" a book about the artist Alexander Calder

To continue this unit on Calder we looked at his wire sculptures and line drawings and did some Blind Contour Drawings!  The kids loved doing this and the work was amazing!

we also drew toy animals!

Martin Luther King Day student events at the MFA Boston

Looks like there's some great things happening!

Printmaking with Grades 2 and 3!! Just discovered Gelli Arts Printing Plates - love them!

Great for Monoprinting! (of course kids had to share the printing plates), 

but that's a good lesson in itself!