Here is some of the amazing artwork created during the 2014/15 school year
Flower Painting - May 2015
Inspired by Van Gogh's various flower paintings, 6th grade artists designed and painted their own original version of the flower painting. Painting flowers is always fun!
Tribal Masks May 2015
Here's a few fun collages of the tribal masks in works of art, the movies and the big game!
Still Life Drawing April 2015
Students will be working with two still life set up in the art room. After choosing a still life, students will then sketch in pencil the basic shapes and forms of what they see. Next step will be to outline their pencil sketch with an oil pastel color. Lastly, students will apply water color washes over their drawing.
Artist Spotlight - Nick Vallalva
Art students explored the amazing work by contemporary artist Nick Villalva for this week's Artist Spotlight. Inspired by his use of geometric shapes, limited color schemes and creative doodles - my artists designed their interpretation of his work in their own unique way. Always awesome!
Mr. Storm's New Hair Style April 2015
Mr. Storm needs your help! He needs a new hair style.
Clay Creatures
Chameleons are cool (or warm!) February 2015
Students are learning about warm and cool color schemes through designing a chameleon. During class we learned all about how awesome the chameleon is and how it not only changes color but it can see in two different directions at the same time! Click on each chameleon below for a closer look!
Pop Art - cans of soup February 2015
Andy Warhol is one of the most famous artists of all time. He created art called Pop Art which used popular and ordinary objects for art. From soup cans to celebrities, Warhol created some really cool art from the things we see every day. Here are sixth grade artist's version of the iconic can of Campbell's soup.
Pixel Self Portraits! February 2015
Using the app "Bit Draw" on their Ipads, these students created self-portraits of themselves - cool!
More pixel art...
Pixel Art - MinecraftEDU February 2015
Space is the Place. January 20
While learning about space in science class, sixth grade artists created these awesome space landscapes. Using various materials, artists worked hard to capture the awesomeness of outer space.
Kaleidoscope Name Designs. January 2015
Still-Life Value Study January 2015
Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. Although most people call "value" simply shading something, there is actually a lot more to it.
Learning several different techniques to create value like hatching and stippling, students practiced by sketching a still life in charcoal with the goal of emphasizing the different values. |
Texture Clay Fish December 2014
Creative Snowmen! December 2014
Sixth grade artists did an amazing job with this year's Creative Snowman project - check out these examples!
Cool Collages November 2014
Students explored different visual textures found in magazines. Once they found several examples of texture images, they cut them out and rearranged them to make a creative collage.
Super Scarecrows. November 2014
Students have been learning about the art element of texture and the difference between "Real" texture and "Visual texture" - click on each scarecrow for an amazing example of visual textures!
Scarecrow Collages. November 2014
Once students finished their scarecrows they used their Ipads to place their scarecrow in a new location, from Minecraft to the Lion King - what great ideas!!! Click on the images for a better look.
Making Monsters October 2014
Monsters and Halloween go together like peanut butter and jelly. These are just a few of the awesome monsters students made in art class. Looking at the classic children's book titled "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, students got inspired to create their very own wild thing!
The Notan Square October 2014
Japanese artists created an art technique in which they cut shapes out of a square and flip the shapes to the outside. This technique was called the Notan Square. The term "Notan" refers to the balance between light and dark. In what ways do you see a balance between light and dark?
Fall Tree Scene September 2014
Line Designs - Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky. September 2014
Potato Head Selfies. September 2014
Personality Pinwheels. September 2014
Everyone is a unique person. There are no two people exactly the same. Each one of us is a mixture of character, habits, likes, dislikes and dreams.
All of these traits swirl together to create our personality. Learn more about these sixth grade artists by seeing their personality pinwheels.
All of these traits swirl together to create our personality. Learn more about these sixth grade artists by seeing their personality pinwheels.
Symbolic Hands. August 2014
One of our first projects this year was to create a symbolic hand that represents who we are. Each finger was used to share something about us, for example the thumb represents something we're good at, the pointer represents what we want to be someday and the ring finger stands for something we are passionate about. What would your "hand" look like?
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