Grinder Maintentance
Grinder Maintenance
Georgia O’Keefe Inspired Collage
Our class spent some time looking at work by Georgia O’Keefe. Using some of the borrowed skulls and bones from the science department, we did a drawing study of bones. Trying out various techniques including hatching, cross-hatching, stippling and blending…
Ink Painting Trees
To create these ink tree paintings, we used watercolor paper, and liquid watercolors. We painted the backgrounds first, taping down the edges beforehand to get a border. Once the background was dry, we used black ink and painted a long…
Clay Cats
We have a lot of cats at our school, and decided to add to the cat pack and create our own clay cats. First we researched cat pictures and used them as reference photos to create a cat plan in…
Day of Dead Wax Resist Skulls
We looked at the Mexican holiday of the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) and looked at sugar skulls made for holiday for inspiration. Then students created their own design for a skull in their sketchbook. From this plan,…
Birds on a Wire
We made these glass birds for an exhibit called “Birds On A Wire”. We started with researching some bird pictures, and getting a color scheme in mind. We drew up a plan for our bird, which included color scheme and…
Memory Project Portraits – Rohingya Children
We created portraits of Rohingya refugee children for The Memory Project. This is the second time I have done this with my art class, and again the process and results have been so rewarding. The Memory Project is a charitable nonprofit…