7th Grade
The seventh graders finished up their awesome self portraits. This project is quite challenging, the students have to combine portrait drawing with the tricky medium of acrylic. I am so proud of the students for pushing through the difficulties with this project, the results are worth it! 

3rd Grade
The third graders finished up their crazy tie dyed self portraits! I love this project because I get to learn so much about my students, it is so fun to see what words they choose to describe themselves. 

8/9 Ceramics
The ceramics class just finished up their free choice final. I LOVE seeing all the weird, wacky and amazing projects the kids choose to take on. It is so fun to just let them run wild with a project. 

8th/9th Photography
The photo class has been working on a big 30 day photo challenge assignment. Each student was given a list of prompts, one for each day of the challenge.

3rd & 4th Art
The third and fourth grade classes finished up their big Tissue Paper Portrait assignment. I have to say, I LOVE THEM! The students were all thrilled with the results of this fun project. Each student took time to really focus on drawing their own faces. The third graders just drew from imagination, but the fourth graders got to use my class set of mirrors. The students were all very proud of their finished drawing, for most of them it was their first self portrait ever! 

Once the drawings were done the students traced in marker and added descriptive words to the background. We then used a fun bleeding tissue paper process to add splashes of color. I had to feature a ton of these! 

6th Foundations
The 6th graders finished up a little origami project this week called "Comfort Boxes". Each student picked a saying they felt would comfort the opener and then used depth to create a layered image. Each box has a distinct foreground, middle ground and background to make the scene feel 3D. 

7th Foundations
The 7th graders finished up their Inner Me/Outer Me masks! I wish I could post 3D photos because it is so fun to see all the detail from every angle. The students did a great job with the project, here are a few I chose to feature. 

8th/9th Photography
This week we talked about texture as an element in photos. The students got to go outside the school to take some shots of the surrounding materials and objects, they were encouraged to get in close to their subjects to capture detail. It was so fun to see the variety of textures the students were able to find during a relatively short time. Make sure to click through the gallery below to see these gorgeous images full size! 

6th Foundations 
This week the 6th graders learned about optical illusions. We looked at numerous examples ranging from 3D chalk art on streets to music videos. The students then created their own 3D hands using cross contour lines and explored the mysteries behind the never ending triangle. You can learn how to make your own optical illusion triangle in the video below! We also did a really fun critique for their Selfie Collor Collage project that involved our own twitter hashtags and usernames. 

7th Foundations
The 7th graders are working on a paper mache mask project. This week they built the form and strengthened it using layers of paper and modge podge. Everything was topped of with a layer of gesso to make them easy to paint. 

Next week they will start painting them using the theme "Inner me vs. Outer me". It is going to be a lot of fun to see what they come up with as far as visuals go.

3-5 Art 
The younger grades are all working on some AMAZING self portraits! I cant WAIT to post photos of these beautiful artworks. The 5th graders are concentrating on doing shaded pencil portraits while the 3/4 grades are doing line drawings and painting them with tissue paper! Here are a few previews of their portraits, they are doing amazing!!!