Skills to pay the bills.

For real this drawing and the others in the 7th grade section were drawn by 7th graders!  These kids are like 13 years old and have some serious skills!

New stuff for Spring!!

Our latest projects from spring have been very interesting so far.  My 7th grade finished some amazing hand drawings while my 8th graders learned how to sew while doing surgery on stuffed animals.  Then we completed live face traces with mirrors.  Pretty crazy stuff!  See each grade levels' section for more.!!  And we had tie dye friday as usual for each trimester!!

We just recently finished turning some of the most famous art works into pop-up book looking things.  Really great job everyone!  See the 8th grade tab for more.

Winter stuff

Well we've been pretty busy recently.  My 6th graders just finished up their clay sandwiches, 7th graders made robots from old computer parts, and 8th grade finished clay mugs and tape-casting.  Please check out each grade levels' tab for more pics.  Thanks.  Also, Elvis was seen trying to appear on one of our rolling pins!!  Next up are stop animation and ugly dolls.

Giacometti Duct tape style

Here are some examples of our recent project where we studied Alberto Giacometti.  We decided to do the opposite with our figures and go for correct proportion with action poses.  Here are my two favorite.  Check out the 8th grade tab for more.

Stencil mania!

Here's clearly my top stencil. Check the 8th grade section for more.  This girl did a ridiculous job on this!!
I had to borrow it from her to print it on some ties.  So sweet.

here's one of her prints.

8th grade value drawings and song paintings!

Here are our recent paintings.  Each one is based on a song that the student chose.  

 Here are my 2nd period's Value drawings of their faces.