Coil Built Pottery

8th grade pottery projects are fresh out of the kiln today. These students looked at the pottery of Pueblo Indians and learned about coil building techniques. Students were tasked to create a vessel of some type and to decorate it using a pattern. These functional art objects turned out great, I know the students are excited to take them home today.

Color Scheme Paintings 2.0

Sixth grade artists recently studied color schemes (warm, cool, monochromatic, complimentary) and landscape art. Then we painted original landscapes using one color scheme. Check them out:

What've we been doing lately?

Lately I've been slacking on the weekly updates. So I want to post one mega-update with some of the things art students have been doing lately.

8th grade underground railroad quilts

 7th grade clay masks

 

8th Grade patterned pottery

6th grade color scheme landscape paintings

8th grade still life compositions

Newspaper Sculptures

Recently the current group of sixth grade artists spent a few days learning about the element of art form by making sculptures out of newspaper. We began by talking about form and 3-dimensional art, and then we discussed how to engineer newspaper so that it can support its own weight. Students were then taught how to roll newspaper into rods to be used to create their sculptures. There were only 2 rules for the creation of these sculptures: 1- it must stand on its own 2- it must support its own weight. Check out some of the work below: