Picasso's life in a Collage

Seventh Grade Learned about Picasso's life. We incorporated different types of art into our collage. Each Student had to make a linoleum carving, metal tooling design, watercolor and acrylic painting , sketch an instrument, and make an instrument with paper. They came out fabulous. You can click on them to see the detail.

Acting in Art Class??

Sixth Grade is learning about El Greco's dramatic paintings.
We divided into groups and posed some of his paintings. The rest of the class sketched the people in their positions.

Printing with Paper Towels

The seventh grade elective class explored printing with an unusual medium. We dipped paper towels in colors of liquid watercolor after folding and scrunching in different shapes. Next we laid down the paper towel on our paper to be printed. After placing flat objects on top , we Used a brayer to make a print on the paper beneath. The paper towel acted as our ink pad.







Here is the paper towel after we used them to print. They will become collage papers for our book covers.

Mural brightens up the Middle School Commons Area

All the Middle school teachers were complaining how boring this wall was in the commons area. Our school is having an addition built on and they blocked off the door with this temporary wall while they are adding on. The Eighth grade elective class planned an Earth Day themed mural and spent the week adding lots of color to our school.

The beautiful eagles were painted by Elese.

Chalk Landscapes ala El Greco

The sixth grade learned about El Greco and his View of Toledo Landscape. We used drawing chalk and dipped in water to get this same electrified effect . I put all the student paintings on a powerpoint and we critiqued each work of art.