New Art Work at the Administration Building!

Miss Rausch's class has a project on display at the Greenwood Community School Corp. Administration building for a month!!!  Kindergarten is working hard this year on perfecting their fine motor skills by creating fun colorful projects like these lions!  Way to go Miss Rausch's class!

 

 

Just some friendly little lions :)

 

Creativity is this month's Core Value and I am excited because we talk about it in Art everyday!!!  How are you going to show your creativity this month?

Mrs. Slauter's Class earns their first fun day!

Hooray for Mrs. Slauter's class earning their first fun day!  Students typically request a specific activity for their fun day, but Mrs. Slauter's brave class requested that I SURPRISE them with a fun activity.

 

So, inspired by the recent change in weather and the coming of fall harvest I decided we would paint pumpkins abstractly!  Students interpreted this many ways:  some choose patterns while others just played with brush stroke and the combining of colors.  No matter their choice, they all turned out wonderfully unique!  I LOVE THEM! 

 

Check out the students in action!

 

Super focused!

I love how this one looks like marbled paper!

 

First Post of the 2014-15 School Year

Beginning of the school year means fresh supplies and new creative thoughts!  I can't wait to start posting new projects!!!  Here are some sweet kindergarten hands working on radial symmetry.  I'm not pregnant this year so here's to more regular posting!

I just can't help myself!

I have to share more of these!

Mrs. Hannah's class just finished their submissions for the PTO AR T-Shirt Contest and I am BLOWN AWAY by the creativity I saw in this class!  They must have an amazing art teacher ;)  These are just a few of the awesome designs I saw from them: I am serious, PTO has a hard decision to make!

Artwork By: Andrew J.

Artwork By: Chris N.

Artwork By: Braelynn D.

Artwork By: Jackson W.

Artwork By: Garrett L.

Artwork By: Garrett A.

Artwork By: Cooper D.

Artwork By: Abby S.

Artwork By: Lauren B.

Artwork By: Ruby O.

Artwork By: Bianca S.

Mr. Harper's Class Earned a FUN DAY!

Fun Days really are some of the best days!  Not only are we celebrating the students' hard work during art class, but we're also getting to stretch our creativity in ways we don't normally have time to explore.  The students always get to pick their activity (as long as it somehow involves art!) and many classes have latched on to one of my favorite games "Exquisite Corpse."  In this game, the paper is folded into thirds and then one person draws the head, another the torso, and the last the legs; however, no one knows what the person before drew.  It's not until the end of the game when everyone unfolds their drawing that they see the silly creature they've made!  This art game was actually quite common amongst Surrealist artists because it would inspire them to create the unique characters that appeared in their paintings (Salvador Dali is one of the most famous Surrealists).

Enjoy the creativity and maybe play it at home one day!

 

PTO Accelerated Reader T-Shirt Contest

I've been working feverishly with my 3rd - 5th graders on a collaboration with our school's PTO.  The PTO graciously takes care of the awards and prizes that our students receive for earning points for reading books and taking quizzes on them.  The most coveted of the prizes being the AR T-Shirt!  When the PTO approached me about the students creating the design for the next shirt I LOVED the idea!  And the kids did too!  So we've spent the last couple weeks learning about Graphic Designers and how many of the everyday packages and logos we see were designed by artists.  Here are just a few of my favorites that have been turned in so far...and Mrs. Bates' class working diligently!  PTO will have a hard choice to make!

 

Artwork by: Alex G.

Artwork by: Sebastian S.

Artwork By: Mariana O.

Artwork By: Grace N.

Artwork By: Isabella Z.

Artwork By: Tiffy C.

Artwork By: Cheyanne S.

And I couldn't resist posting this one!  Mr. Corbin, this student thought that you should be on a t-shirt!  Our students love our new media aid so much!