Bubble Wrap Prints

First Grade students used bubble wrap to print. They painted bubble wrap with blue tempera paint and then printed it on blue paper to create the look of water. Then they painted some fish on recycled paper and used oil pastel to make seaweed. They learned that when artists use different kinds of art materials to make an artwork, it is called mixed-media.


 

Treasure Maps

 Second Grade students created treasure maps to support their social studies curriculum. In Second grade, students are expected to be able to interpret a map, and create a map using symbols, a map key and a compass rose. Students created their own treasure map using these key elements of a map.

Coil Pots

Third Grade students looked at artwork by Maria Martinez. They discussed the purpose of creating this kind of art (pottery). They also looked at examples of pottery made of coils. Then students saw a demonstration of rolling a slab, rolling coils and attaching the clay coils to the slab using the score and slip method.

Students created their own coil pots and then glazed them.

Kindergarten Self-Portraits

Kindergarten students learned what the term “self-portrait” means and then drew their self-portrait.

Students were encouraged to be as accurate as possible and considered their specific skin tone, eye color as well as all of the details in the eye.

Solar System Paintings

4th grade students tried 8 different watercolor painting techniques. They tried stippling, blotting, drybrush, wet on wet, wet on dry, salt, plastic wrap, and wash. The paper used to try all of these watercolor techniques was used for the planets in their solar system. Then students glued their planets to black paper and tried the spattering technique to make stars.

Pop Art Portraits

Fifth Grade students looked at artwork by Andy Warhol. Warhol is famous for creating pop-art images. Pop Art is short for popular art which means using everyday pictures or images such as photos of celebrities or mundane things like soup cans, and turning them into fancy museum art. Much of this type of artwork was and is used in advertising. Students used photos of themselves to paint pop-art portraits. They could only use two colors to paint their portrait in this graphic style. Students used fluorescent paints and black lights to achieve the glowing look of these portraits.

Alebrijes

Fourth Grade students created clay animals inspired by “Alebrijes” made by the Oaxacan people of Mexico.

Alebrijes are brightly colored animal sculptures that were originally created by Pedro Linares. Linares was very sick with a fever and dreamed about brightly colored animals. He decided to re-create these animals by creating wood carvings and painting them with brightly colored paints. He also made these sculptures with cardboard and paper mache. The people of Oaxaca were already known for their animal sculptures and they decided to begin painting their sculptures with bright paints like Linares. They now make these sculptures for tourists and to sell in other countries.

Clay Mice

1st Grade Students sculpted mice from clay. Then they painted their mice with tempera paint and used a pipe cleaner for the tail.