Students in the after school art club (4-8th) learned about the art of making paper mosaics. Students had a range of paper material to choose from and were given full artistic expression in their design. Nice job, Art Club!

For their painting unit, the 8th grade students created their own watercolor paintings, focusing on atmospheric perspective. We took a look at 18th century artwork from Asia, specifically from China, Japan and the Koreas. We used their style as inspiration to create the paintings you see below. Students used atmospheric perspective in their first painting and then experimented with the watercolor to create a unique background in the second. To complete their work, students learned how to write their name in Korean to sign their art.

The after school art club read the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This is a book about a young girl who discovers her unique artistic style by painting a dot. The artists first painted their own dot with tempera paint and then transformed their dots into a sculpture using paper strips. 

In alignment with their social science curriculum, the 5th grade students learned about a famous Meso-American artifact called the Aztec sun stone. Students used this as inspiration to design their own imaginative sun stone. Once designed, they transferred to foam plates for printmaking.

In this unit, the 7th grade students learned about Kirigami; the art of cutting paper. They demonstrated their ability to successfully use an X-Acto knife to intricately cut layers of paper that will create a cohesive composition. Students also demonstrated their understanding of the importance of strong color contrast in order to create a striking design. 

Students in the after school art club (4th-8th Grade) printed a series of greeting cards using styrofoam plates. Here are some of the finished cards.

Students created a foil embossing artwork using card stock, yarn, tin foil and sharpies. First, students drew some type of abstract pattern on the card. I encouraged them to use shapes opposed to line because we would be coloring them in at the end of the project. Afterward, students traced over their lines with liquid glue and applied yard to the glued lines. Once this component was dry, students applied a sheet of tin foil and gently rubbed over the design using a small piece of felt. For the final step, students applied sharpie to the shapes. Well done, Art Club!

For the second unit of the year, our 8th grade students focused on the art element: value. Students learned how to create a wide range of value using special graphite pencils. For their final project, students were asked to find a portrait photograph and divide along the line of symmetry of the subject's face. Then, they were asked to draw the other half of the image focusing on value and texture. Nice job, 8th Grade! 

The seventh grade students created an artwork inspired by famous Op Artists' Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely. They used Riley's converging lines pattern for the background and Vasarely's spheres for the foreground to create their own optical illusion. 

Students in the after school art club program used canvas board and acrylic paint to create their own winter scene. They learned how to blend paint directly on the canvas to create new tints of blue and purple. 

Quilling, also known as paper filigree, is an art form that involves rolling and gluing thin strips of paper into various shapes and arranging them to form designs. Quilled paper designs can be very simple or as complex as you have the dexterity and patience for. The 2nd and 3rd grade students learned how to roll their own paper coils, and used the coils to design a personalized emoji. 

For our second lesson this year, the fifth grade students learned about the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso is known for his abstract and cubist style portraits. After a discussion on cubism, students drew their own portrait in the style of Picasso using oil pastels. Students also used a blending technique with the oil pastels to create new colors within their artwork.

Each sixth grade student created an artwork using the contour line drawing of his/her face. Students were asked to create an interesting composition, focusing on balance and emphasis. Afterward, each student applied a complementary color scheme to his/her artwork. 

Feel free to download and print a copy of the permission slip. Please turn in your permission slip to Ms. Tambone by October 20th, 2017.

I hope everyone had a wonderful summer! It's been a while since we last posted pictures of our amazing students creating art and having fun. To get the ball rolling, we have posted a few pictures including our post-it note wall art and our over-sized coloring board. Over the month of September, K-8 students participated in the Square 1 Art Fundraiser. More pictures of that artwork to come!

Please join us on June 8th, 2017 from 5 - 6:30 pm for our third annual art night showcasing K-8 student artwork!

Students in the fourth grade had a chance to draw outside this spring! We focused on drawing from observation; drawing what you see. Using their observational drawings, students created these beautiful watercolor paintings. 

The 8th grade students created linocut prints in the style of Andy Warhol. Inspiration for this artwork came from Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Can paintings that are key works of the 1960s Pop Art movement. Warhol himself said, “Pop art is about liking things,” and claimed that he ate Campbell’s soup every day for 20 years.  Students explored the concept of liking something so much; one is compelled to create art about that thing. Each student chose a food item that they could eat everyday for 20 years and carved out linoleum for printing.