Pop Art & Perspective

Miss Good sure is doing GREAT stuff with Lake County's elementary students. These kids are kickin' butt and takin' names with their creativity. Yeah art!

You know Andy Warhol? He was that guy who was a leading figure in the Pop Art Movement. Think Campbell Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe. Students in 6th grade designed their own popular culture image, creating a contour drawing of it. These images were then colored using their knowledge of color theory. If you recognize the images below, then it means these students hit the nail on the head!

In other news, 5th graders spent some time learning how to make their artwork more realistic by using one point perspective. They rocked it!

Color Matters!

As our semester comes to an end, students in Intro Art are diving head first into color and working hard on their final projects: Native American Animal Totems using oil pastels. Each student chose an animal that represented unique characteristics of themselves. Here are some works in progress:

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe

"Color is a power which directly influences the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky

See you all next semester...and at our annual, district wide Art Show on Friday May 8th!

Morning Meditation in Art Class

Exciting news: Miss Farrow's 7th and 8th graders found their Zen last week. Students were led through a meditation where they focused on their breath and explored clay, ultimately creating pinch pots. When they finished, students got to reflect back on the process. You'll notice that each student is sitting quietly, focusing on their breath and the clay in their hands. That's right folks, 7th  and 8th graders SAT IN SILENCE for an entire class period. As you can see below, students really got into it. It was magical!

5th and 6th graders do the snow dance!

And by snow dance, I mean painting winter! The high country needed some snow, so what better what to call to the snow Gods than paint some winter trees? Bonus: Miss Good's class learned about foreground, midground and background.

                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                 ...and yes, it worked!

The Big Push!...and some smiles.

Ceramic students are putting it into high gear! These busy bees are trying to finish all wet work on their vessels before we leave for our week long thanksgiving break. If you look carefully, you will see the elusive, rarely seen 'early morning high schooler smile'! It's an amazing sight.

Art makes people happy. Even teenagers at 8am!

Tribal Self Portraits

We do more than just clay in our fantastic new HS art room! Students in Intro to Art created self-portraits in which they depicted themselves as a member of a specific tribe. Graphite pencil can be tough, but you'd never know it!  

Beth Camp

Ruben Aguilera

Aryha McNamee

Devin Medina

Travis Pennington

A spooky surprise for Miss Farrow...

Was it a coincidence that I came upon THIS creature on Halloween morning in my classroom? This is no prop, but a 100% real 8 legged bundle of scary-ness. I had to call for back up...Miss Cremin to the rescue!

In other news, our ceramics class's African inspired vessels are really starting to "come alive"! Happy Halloween!