Celebrating Art Winners!!

The following student's artwork was chosen to be published in next year's "Celebrating Art" book.  The Matisse Rooms were a big hit with Celebrating Art, three of them were chosen.  Congrats!! Thanks for your hard work in art class.
Avionne's stamping snow

 Brianna's Matisse Room

 Crystal's Miro

 Indiya's Matisse Room

 Mark's AIC collage

 Shaionta's pumpkin

 William's Matisse Room

This Year's Celebrating Art Contest

I am submitting artwork for the contest again this year. Last year over half the artwork I submitted was published. So it is worth your time if you want to submit your own artwork. If you'd prefer to just e-mail the artwork and I can do it for you. I wish I had time to submit a work of art for every student, but I just had to choose a few. Posted below are some of the artwork from this year that caught my eye:
Artwork by Deja
Artwork by Timaris (my Quick Draw expert!)
Artwork by Tysean
Artwork by Unique
Miro Artwork by Tjena
Artwork by Avionne (love her roofs!)
Miro Artwork by Crystal
Artwork by Chloe
Unfinished Elephant by Arronte (once he adds a Big Green Ear, this piece will be awesome)
One of Amillion many amazing creations that she whips together after school while I'm putzing around the art room. ;-)
Artwork by Lashamere

Picasso Guitar Collages

Despite the pressure of ISATS, the 4th and 5th graders made some rocking artwork during testing week.

Revisiting Picasso:Some of these students had studied Picasso Portraits two years ago and I was happy to see a few remembered. This year they re-created his guitars.

I thought I was clever by putting the title of the bulletin board in CD cases, but it just made the title difficult to read. You live and learn. Can the read the title?



Artwork by Kashariya


Artwork by Yahdiah

Artwork by Desiree

Artwork by Daija

Artwork by Avionne

Artwork by Amiri

Artwork by Destiny

Apology and Patterned Paper

Please come again soon to see the pictures of the artwork we have been busy making. They will be posted by next month.

Some projects I have been really into this year is drawing into wet paint, so much fun! And Printmaking, although we are still very much in the experimenting stages.

We enjoyed making painted patterned paper using cut cardboard, stamps, anything really. 4th grade used cool colors on day, warm the next week. Here are my favorites:

Avionne's cool colors

Yahdiah's warm colors
Printmaking with Acrylic paints= FAIL, the paint dries too quickly
However, the dried paint looked great with Triniti's creation. A++ to her for remembering to reverse the Words
Chloe's minimalist painting that she did one day when she had extra time. This painting would love really nice in a living room.

Plenty of Pumpkins!

Who knew that the 4th and 5th graders could create such a range of different pumpkins!?!
Artwork by Eric and Kayla
Artwork by Avionne and Jamari
Artwork by Jaron and Lakeau
Artwork by Diamond and Desiree
Artwork by Sereniti and Tysean
Artwork by Ryshaun and Amiri

Back to Drawing!! Grades 1-5

We are back in school! Our first project was decorating the cover to our sketchbook. This year's group colors are orange, purple and green. Every class had the same guidelines of wavy line in middle, box on the wavy line, sun by their name as well of a zig-zag line, spirals and other shapes. Even with the same guidelines, everyone's unique style shined through!!
On the back side they had option of free draw and writing their name in different styles. Here are some of my favorites:

Sketchbook Covers by Avionne, Caiya, Sereniti, and Jaren
Sketchbook Covers by Kamaree and Carson
Sketchbook Covers by Jherrone and Marion
Free Draws by Joseph and Andre
Sketchbook Covers and Free Draws by James, Noah, Bianca, and Mikayla
Sketchbook Covers by Marquis, ChynaC
Sketchbook Covers by Shaionta and Amillion

Illuminated Letters