Link to Chelmsford MA newest "Spotlight on the Arts"

http://cvp.telvue.com/player?id=T01497&video=275076

Grade 1 Animal Drawing

Students each got a small sandwich bag with a plastic toy animal in it

Next students did a drawing WITHOUT looking in the bag!  They had just a white paper and thin sharpie.










The next part of this drawing exercise was to take
the animal out of the bag, set up the animal in front
of them and do a BLIND contour drawing
WITHOUT LOOKING at the PAPER this time!
The last drawing was done by just doing both:
looking at the animal AND the paper


They cut out the animals a little bigger than their drawing and created their backgrounds. I love the effect!! 

MAEA work heading to Boston for the YAM annual show! I will be helping hang this show next weekend.

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