Owls, Houses, and Ashton

I have a lot of watercolor and bird collages to post. We have been very busy with birds...peacocks, cockatoos, penquins! The owls are just one of many. Here is a small preview.

Houses by Willie and Kori

Owl by Emonie

Houses by Caiya and Emonie (again! yah!)

Owl by Alonzo

Houses by Alijah

Houses by Jordan


I love the "at-home" drawings that everyone have given me this year! But, I need everyone to be patient with seeing them on the blog. I decided to post all of the drawings together at end of year. Ashton has given me, not only a few drawings, but a few entire drawing journals!! So these are just a preview of many more of Ashton's work to come!

Back to Drawing!! Grades 4-8

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 Kiara B, Crystal, Marvelles and Tatyana

Sketchbook Covers by Yahzyah, Deja, and Lorraine

Sketchbook covers by Jevon, Kiara R, Brianna, Indiya

Sketchbook Covers by Kori, Tysean, Juavonte, and Emonie

REAL CLAY!!

Since, we do not have a kiln (oven that cooks the clay) at our school, we have not had the pleasure of working with real ceramic clay until this spring. ArtReach, a program with Lill Street, came to show us how to make art with clay. They fired the clay in their kiln at their very large studio on the north-side Ravenswood neighborhood.

3rd and 4th graders were rewarded with this lesson because of their excellent behavior. First they designed their fish/sea creature on paper. Next they learned how to work with the clay, and finally they made their clay sea creature!
Eryn plays with the clay
Kori's jellyfish
Ryshaun's Octopus
Jamari's crab
Bria's starfish
Sereniti's fish
Emonie's fish

XOX Fish Kiss XOX

Happy Valentine's Day! 3rd Graders made fishes out of Hearts. (for details see previous post)

Artwork by Damari
Artwork by Emonie
Artwork by Marquis
Artwork by Desiree
Artwork by Kashariya
Montala's fish is jumping out of the water!
Artwork by Brian

Line Mania!!

Bulletin Board Artwork from Top Left Corner (remember click on it for CLOSE-UP):

Emonie, Shakeyah, Keshawn, Alexzandria, Princess, and Johntaye.

Lines are the most basic element of art, but our lines are not very basic! We combined over 6 types of lines and made them colorful and labeled.

Artwork by Brianna T.
Artwork by Montala
Artwork by Catariana
Artwork by Michiaya