Student Work

Watercolor Resist Paintings: Pre-K

For this project, students experimented with oil pastels and watercolors to create mixed media artworks. At the start of the lesson we learned how to draw a continuous contour line then practiced keeping our pencils on the paper for the whole drawing. We then moved onto drawing the same type of line with white oil pastels. Finally, we painted small sections with bright rainbow colors using the wet-on-wet watercolor technique and watched as our resist lines appeared.

~

Image 1 of 7

Kandinsky’s Concentric Circles: 2nd & 3rd 

In this watercolor unit, 2nd and 3rd grade students studied the abstract paintings of Kandinsky. We learned about his career as an abstract painter and how he used music to inspire his paintings.

Still Life Drawings: Advanced Drawing & Painting

This trimester students have been learning about observational drawing, proportion, composition and shading. For our first project we combined all of these learned skills together into a still life drawing.

Elena - 8th Grade

Image 3 of 3

Dot Day! Kindergarten & 1st

This painting lesson centered around “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. Through the stories protagonist Vashti, students learned about the importance of experimentation in art-making. After the book reading, we sketched our own dots and colored them in with tempera paint sticks.

Eric Carle Collage – by Kindergarten

Georgia O’Keefe flowers – 1st grade

IMG_5457 IMG_5458 IMG_5459 IMG_5462 IMG_5463 IMG_5464

 

 

   

 

Macchia Bowls, inspired by Dale Chihuly – 4th grade

IMG_5502 IMG_5503 IMG_5504 IMG_5505

Cubist faces, inspired by Pablo Picasso – 7th grade

IMG_5526 IMG_5525 IMG_5523 IMG_5519 IMG_5518 IMG_5516

Huichol yarn paintings – by 8th grade

IMG_4935 IMG_4938 IMG_4939 IMG_4940 IMG_4944 IMG_4945 IMG_4947 IMG_4950