6th Grade Chuck Close Inspired Self Portraits

6th graders learned about the incredible artist, Chuck Close, and found inspiration in his style of art for their self portrait project. This was a time consuming project, but the enthusiastic 6th graders did such a phenomenal job!

For our project, students created their self portraits using grid drawing. In each grid box, students added different shapes and symbols. Students used color pencils to color in their portraits.

Check out their work:

Awesome job, 6th grade!

Kindergarten "Big Face" Portraits

Kindergarten had a blast creating these large "Big Face" Portraits in art! We had so much fun with our large portraits!

For our portraits, students used paint to fill in our hair and faces. Each student gave their portrait unique faces using markers. At the end of our project, we held our portraits over our faces to surprise our kindergarten teacher! We had so much fun!

Awesome job, Kindergarten! Have a great time at your Moving Up ceremony next week!

1st Grade Cupcake Pop Art

Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes... who doesn't love cupcakes?

For a fun mixed media project, students in the first grade learned all about artists who use food as themes in their art as well as the Pop Art movement. Students loved looking at images of giant ice cream sculptures and paintings that made the desserts look actually frosted!

 

 

First graders created their own 2D cupcakes using a variety of materials. For our backgrounds, students created patterns using crayon and watercolor paint. We 'frosted' our cupcakes by creating our own puffy paint using shaving cream, glue, and paint.

These came out so delicious looking! Check out the student work:

Fantastic job, friends!! 

5th Grade Self Portraits

5th graders created colorful self portraits using various color pencil and printmaking techniques! They did such a fantastic job in all aspects of this project- they really hit it out of the park!

For our backgrounds, students used recycled paper towel rolls and paint to created a fun and colorful 'print'. Students were encouraged to used abstract colors in their self portraits using colored pencils!

Check out their amazing work:

Wonderful job!!!!

3rd Grade Watercolor Self Portraits

3rd graders created beautiful watercolor backgrounds and traced the contour lines of their faces for their expressive self portraits.They did such a fantastic job with this project... especially on their watercolor backgrounds! Each background is so unique and colorful!

Check these out:

 

 

 

 

Fabulous job, 3rd graders!

1st Grade Groovy Guitars

In a lesson connecting to music class, students learned all about guitars in Art! 1st graders painted their own guitars, assembling their own instruments using paper, buttons, glue, and glitter!

Students did such a fantastic job creating colorful and unique guitars!
Check out these groovy guitars!

 

Great job, 1st grade!!

7th Grade Hand Contour Drawings

In this mixed media drawing unit, 7th graders learned about contour drawings (drawings that focus on the basic outlines of an object). We practiced different types of contour drawings using various props, such as manikins, rubber ducks, and soup cans! For our project, each seventh grader created a contour drawing of their hand!

For the background, students were able to experiment with different watercolor techniques. This was fun and messy! Students were able to add salt to their wet watercolor paint, create a watercolor-crayon resist, wet on wet blending, or even use eye droppers to add a splatter effect to their paper. 7th graders were so creative and spontaneous during this portion of the art making process!

Check out our cool contour hand drawings!

 

 

 
Great job, 7th grade!

Art Club Tint Paintings

The third session of Art Club (grades 6-8) is all about paint! There's a lot of projects we are excited about starting!

For our first project we learned about mixing paint and creating tints of colors. Our paintings were done on canvas board. We even painted a silhouette on the canvas too!

Check out our paintings:

 

 

 

Awesome job, Art Clubbers!