Festive Elephants of India - Mixed Media Collage
Optical Illusions
The sixth graders learned about Optical Art and viewed over twenty illusions. They created their own colorful optical illusion designs on paper using a variety of shapes and lines.
Paper Weavings in Oil Pastels
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Magnified Insects
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CD Creatures
The sixth graders used recycled CDs and Sharpies to create some type of creature. Most of them chose an animal or creature. We ended up with half of the Angry Birds characters and some other recognizable characters!
Glitter Christmas Bulbs
The students made Christmas ornaments to take home for the holidays. They filled their glass bulb with clear floor wax and then used a funnel to add glitter. The floor wax acts as glue and helps the glitter stick to the inside of the ornament.
Initial It!
The sixth graders chose one of their initials and drew a stylized version of it on a small canvas panel. They used masking tape to tape off a border around their canvas and painted the background and other designs with tempera paint.
Paper Molas
The students created paper molas inspired by the art of traditional molas created by the Kuna Indians. They explored collage techniques as they created their own stylzed pictures.
Watercolor Turtles
The sixth graders experimented with a new watercolor technique to add some texture to their painting! They sketched a turtle with pencil on watercolor paper, outlined it with colored pencil, and then painted with watercolors and salt.
Crayon Resist Leaf Paintings
The sixth graders learned the crayon resist technique to create these beautiful watercolor paintings.
God Gives Us Many Gifts
At the beginning of each school year, the students' first art project is a piece relating to the school's theme. This year our theme is "God Gives Us Many Gifts." The sixth graders created self portraits from paper and depicted a gift they were thankful for by using a symbol in their gift.
These projects will be hung around the school as a border and will remain all year to remind us of the many gifts we are blessed with.
These projects will be hung around the school as a border and will remain all year to remind us of the many gifts we are blessed with.
ARTWORK BELOW THIS POINT IS FROM THE 2010-11 SCHOOL YEAR.
CD Creations
The sixth graders used recycled CDs to create creatures! They used color Sharpies to color a design on two cds and cut construction paper into the shapes they needed for the rest of the body.
Somehow we ended up with all the characters from "Spongebob."
Somehow we ended up with all the characters from "Spongebob."
Profile Collages
I had each student stand in front of the projector as I traced the shadow of their rofile onto black paper. They created a collage inside their outline with magazine clippaings that related to them!
Tree "Hand"scapes
The sixth graders used a tracing of their hand/arm to create a spring landscape with a tree as the focus. They could use a variety of media to create their artwork: colored pencils, markers, oil & chalk pastels, paint, etc.
Record Cityscapes
The sixth grades used construction paper and paint to create these cityscapes on vinyl records. They created their own imaginative buildings to make each record original!
Paper Molas
The students created paper molas inspired by the art of traditional molas created by the Kuna Indians. They explored collage techniques as they created their own stylzed pictures.
Turtle Watercolor Paintings
The sixth graders experimented with a new watercolor technique to add some texture to their painting! They sketched a turtle with pencil on watercolor paper, outlined it with colored pencil, and then painted with watercolors and salt.
Christmas Tree Forest Collages
The sixth grade made these festive Christmas pictures using paper, glitter, and jewels. They created the snow, snowflakes, trees, and pond by cutting their shapes from construction paper, then decorated their trees with glitter and jewels.
Magnified Grass
We watched a clip from the movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and discovered how large everything outside seemed compared to the size of the shrunken kids. The students created their own version of a magnified outdoors scene!
Leaf Batiks
The sixth graders learned about the ancient art of Batiks and created their own leaf batiks on paper. They used a crayon resist technique with watercolors and tempera cakes.
Paper Portraits
The sixth graders were challenged to create self-portraits using only paper. They began by drawing their head/neck/ears onto skin-colored paper, then cut out a shirt from a color of their choice. They cut their hair and added facial features. Once everything was glued, they were encouraged to add a background, designs on their clothes, and accessories.
Pinch Pots
I have yet to meet a student who doesn't like to work with clay! I pulled out the 25 lb. box of air-dry clay the week before Mother's Day so the students could make a pinch pot to bring home as a gift. I showed them how to make a pinch pot by rolling their clay into a ball, sticking their thumb in the middle, and using their fingers to pinch around the pot, creating walls. They were creative with the shapes they turned their pots into. I pulled out sculpting tools they could use to draw designs or write words into the clay. After drying and hardening over night, they were able to paint them with tempera paints and I sprayed them with a clear gloss spray when they dried.
The best part of clay is it's messy, yet forgiving! The worst part of working with clay is watching it hit the floor after it's dry!
The best part of clay is it's messy, yet forgiving! The worst part of working with clay is watching it hit the floor after it's dry!
