Virtual Art Galleries & Flipgrid

This will be my LAST post for this school year 2019-2020. At the bottom of this post, I have included some tutorials that I gave my students, for those of you interested in creating your own virtual rooms. It's so quick, easy and rather addictive! This was a task I introduced because we could not...

G8 Virtual School- Chair Sculptures

Our grade 8 students are off of campus right now due to the CoronaVirus, but their learning is continuing uninterrupted! Even though I miss my students SO much. I thought I'd share what they have been doing while at home. Previously, in class the students learnt about the ELEMENTS of sculpture and sculptural techniques. They...

Studio Habits Posters, by G6

The quarter 2, grade 6 students have just completed their beautiful butterfly paintings. They followed the same process as the previous classes, which you can read more about here. The main goals being: To be able to locate the media To be able to successfully use the media To be able to clean the media...

Inspirational Posters Made With Keynote G6

This post is a continuation from the previous one about the butterfly art. After the grade 6 students completed their lovely art using drawing, painting and collage media, they were now ready to explore DIGITAL media. The goal of this task was to introduce a variety of apps for photo manipulation and poster design. The...

Sculpture Chairs are Complete, G8

I am so thrilled to announce our sculpture chairs are COMPLETE, and will be on display this Wednesday in the plaza, and on May 14th during the art party.   Please come and join us for our pop up exhibit 2:00- 2:50pm this Wednesday. It is now time not only to celebrate all their hard work,...

Movement- Visual vs Physical, G6

The grade 6 students began their first quarter of art looking at MOVEMENT in art. They used pattern, repetition, tone and colour to create their own optical artworks, that lead the viewer's eyes through the page. After discussing the difference between visual and physical movement they then chose an action (movement), which represented themselves. This...

The POWER of Art – G8

PART 1 I wrote EARLIER about the grade 8 students using composition, observation, and toning skills to complete these beautiful skeletons. PART 2 BACKGROUNDS AND TECHNIQUES. As an introduction to mixed-media the students were given 3 different techniques, step by step. Once they completed these small one-lesson tasks they were ready for part 3 of the final task which...

Goodbye G6, Q1

I can't believe the first quarter is already over for grade 6. How quickly that time went! This post is a celebration of all the amazing things they achieved in such a short space of time. In 7 weeks they painted landscapes, photographed and sketched in the garden, made clay plaques and created stunning digital...

G7 FUNCTIONAL OBJECT PHOTOS

We have just got back from holidays and now I need to catch up by sharing the amazing work the grade 7 class did during last quarter. Better late than never. 🙂 FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS PHOTO-SHOOT AND SHOWCASE. I wrote previously about this task, but basically, the students reinterpreted their out of the frame drawings as a functional clay...

Printmaking in Grade 7

The Process Step 1: Research owls, collect photos of favourite owls. Step 2: Practise drawing the favourite into the sketchbook. Step 3: Analyze existing prints to see what is successful in a lino print. We discussed: contrast, balance, focal point, texture, pattern and movement. Step 4: Design our owl and plan the black and white...

Grade 9/10 Concepts are Developing

I have just finished marking my 9/10B books and thought I'd share some of my favourite pages. Just so you know the process the students had to research Pop Art then create a title page inspired by the movement. They documented their research notes in their books and copied two examples of Pop art. Their...

Grade 7 Go to Trashy Bags

Grade 7 had a brilliant trip last Friday to Trashy bags. They had two weeks to create a template for a new product which Trashy Bags could make and sell in their store. We had many wonderful ideas from Picnic sets, binder covers, to iphone covers and shower curtains. Each student had to present their...

Grade 8 Mandalas

The grade 8s have successfully finished their shoe drawings. Now they are learning about Mandalas. After viewing a brief Powerpoint they then applied what they had just learnt to a CD. They results were really gorgeous. If we had CDs which were shiny on both sides I would have loved to get them to add...