Draw Your own Cartoon Face

Triniti, now you will have something new to comment about for sure ;-)
Artwork by Gabrieal
Artwork by Ellusion
Artwork by Janeia, Joseph, Triniti and Lorraine

http://drawsketch.about.com/od/cartooning/ss/drawcartoonfaces.htm

Pablo Picasso’s Portraits and Profiles!

3-5th graders learned about portraits done by Pablo Picasso. Picasso liked to show the side-view of the face, called a profile, and the face from the front view in the same painting. Compare our portraits to his and you can see we did the same thing!


The three portraits above are by Picasso. Now compare them to our portraits below.

Artwork by Tyree, Jevon, Makayl, and Kiara W.
Artwork by Kiara L., Stephon, and Cartez
Artwork by Michiaya, Jermaine, Avionne
Artwork by Donyelle and Joseph B.
Artwork by Mark
Artwork by William and Ashton

Unusual Snowfall in 2010

Today was the first day to feel like spring, but these snowmen are too cute to not post. Also not to forget all the snow from last month! During mid-February the USA had unusual amounts of snowfall. 49 of all 50 states were covered with snow (Hawaii is only state excluded). This is so strange that the federal offices have never kept track of such an occurrence. Therefore, they can’t look back to see if it has ever happened in the nation’s history before.

Artwork by Lawuan and Joseph
Artwork by Shamia and Demetrius
Artwork by Mark and De'yannah
Artwork by Asia, Andre, Kanye, and Demeyah
Artwork by Ebony

Fat Tuesday :-)

On Fat Tuesday we made our own Mardi Gras masks and talked about why it is called "Fat" Tuesday. People celebrate and eat LOTS before giving up things on Ash Wednesday.

Mask by Joseph

Masks by Mark and Demetrius
Masks by Katherine, Kenya, and Symphony
Masks by Demarion, Leo, and Keyuan
Masks by Ebony and Raven

Masks by Breanna and Madison

Free Paint, No Restraint

The art club students were given a chance to paint whatever their creative minds came up with.
Artwork by Janeia
Artwork by Joseph
Artwork by Breanna
Artwork by Kennedie

Artwork by Jermaine shown above
Jermaine's painting reminded me a little of Jackson Pollock, a famous artist who liked to splatter paint.

Artwork by Jackson Pollock

Cozy Klimt Quilts

Gustav Klimt is a famous painter who loved to use lines and shapes to make patterns. He also loved to use gold. So, Art Club looked at his paintings and learned from him.

Artwork by Klimt


Art Club practices making patterns by drawing someone bundled up in many brightly patterned quilts.

Artwork by Damien
Artwork by Janeia, Chyna, Kayla, Robert
Artwork by Akilah, Merelyn, Trevius, Joseph, Jermaine

**Remember, you can click on the image to enlarge it and see more details.

Meet Matisse

Art Club practiced mixing their primary colors and made a color wheel. Using the six colors from their color wheel, they did their own version of Matisse's Madame, also called the "Green Line".
"Green Line" by Matisse
Color Wheel by Janeia
Artwork by Joseph
Artwork by Janeia
Artwork by Sanbonnice
The eighth grade is also studying Matisse, but they studied his famous cutouts. They used primary colors, figures, and again positive/negative space!
Matisse
Artwork by Terron
Artwork by Channa
Artwork by Malik and Bobby
Artist unknown...they did a great job, but they forgot the most important step, step #1= WRITE YOUR NAME

Get to Know Van Gogh

The Art Club studied the detailed sky from Van Gogh's "Starry Night". Their projects are swirly like his! I love their interpretations of Van Gogh's sky!

Artwork by Kenmari
Artwork by Sanbonnice
Artwork by Akilah
Artwork by Jakobe

The lower grades studied Van Gogh's "Sunflowers".
Artwork by VanGogh
Artwork by Joseph

Artwork by Cierra
Artwork by Timothy
Artwork by Alex

Artwork by Trevius

Everyone has remembered Vincent Van Gogh's name...to help, we think "not car, but VAN...not stop, but GO! :-) With both projects they used glitter glue to make the texture that is one of Van Gogh's trademarks.