The first week of February…and another busy week in the art room.  Here’s a look at some of the things we worked on this week!

Fifth graders were excited to begin painting their clay masks!  After finishing painting with acrylic paints, they will spend several classes adding raffia hair, beads, feathers, and other embellishments.

Fourth and Third graders added several coats of glaze to their clay wall pockets and clay coil pots.  These will go back in the kiln for another firing before we carefully wrap them and send these treasures home!

Second graders are looking at the art of Jim Dine, and painting “squiggle hearts” in the Pop Art style of Dine.  They are enjoying thinking about warm and cool colors as they paint with tempera paints.

 

 

First graders are doing “ketchup” (catch up!) projects, finishing several loose ends on their vehicles and warm/cool color experiments.  Some of us also began “Love Cats” decorated with….what else, hearts!

And finally, our kinders enjoyed painting hearts and practiced their folding and cutting skills as they cut hearts to frame their paintings!