Romare Bearden Artwork

During Black History Month the 3rd Grade class spent a couple weeks learning about Romare Bearden, a famous African American Artist. Bearden is known for making collages out of books, magazines and newspapers, and most of his artwork had musical themes. Students worked hard to create their own collages, and each collage has a musical theme. When we finished our artwork, we took time to write letters to Romare Bearden, imagining what we would like to ask him about his life, love of music, etc. I'm proud of my 3rd Grade artists!

More Straw Paintings!

Here are the finished products from the 2nd Grade Straw-Blown Paintings! Students framed their artwork with unique shapes cut from tissue paper. Awesome job!

Diversity Drawings

First graders used our new, "Multicultural", markers to create these pieces of artwork. At MMLA, we love DIVERSITY!!

Straw-Blown Trees

I posted a few pictures of 4th Graders using straws to paint trees, and I thought I should show you the finished products! Students used tissue paper for leaves, and the results were beautiful!

5th Grade Update

5th graders have been busy in Art! Here are a few pictures of Calendar Art and Coat of Arms projects. We used donated calendar pages, cut them in half, and tried to replicate one part of the picture. They look really great, and I am proud of the way that students paid attention to detail. Wonderful work!
*Don't forget - click any picture to enlarge it!*

Love Bugs

Check out this lovely Love Bug, which was created by a 1st Grade artist!

Blowing Paint with Straws!

These pictures show 4th & 2nd Graders using drinking straws to blow paint on their paper. 4th Graders are in the middle of creating paint-blown-trees, while 2nd Graders are creating abstract designs. I will be sure to post the finished products!

Black History Month Art Contest

For the last 2 weeks a group of 7th Grade artists worked extremely hard on artwork for a contest. These students came in nearly everyday before school as well as sacrificing lunch in the cafeteria in order to work on their drawings! Each student created a piece of artwork that represents what Black History Month means to them. I could not be more proud of these students, and I am really hoping that at least one of our contestants wins a prize (The prizes include laptop computers and family vacations!!). Here are pictures of a few entries.

4th Grade

Here are some pictures from 4th Grade Figure drawings and sculptures. Students worked hard using oil pastels and modeling clay to practice their figure drawing/sculpting techniques. Great work!

More 7th Grade

7th Grade Art

The 7th Grade class is an extremely hard working, positive class. I am proud of them for all that they have accomplished so far, and I recently put a variety of artwork from their class on display. Check out these pictures, and click on any that you'd like to enlarge. Awesome job, 7th Grade!

2nd Grade Models!

We had a really fun time in 2nd Grade Art learning how to draw people. People can be one of the hardest things to learn to draw, but it is always more interesting if your own friends are the models! Each student sat on the floor with their own mini chalkboard and used our oval-stlye of drawing people to capture what the model was doing. It was funny to see the various poses, and it was amazing to see how accurate the students' drawings were. Wonderful job, 2nd Grade!

Weekly Update continued...

Here are some pictures from 3rd and 4th grade art classes. Third graders spent a few weeks learning about Pablo Picasso & his crazy style of drawing people. He drew them from the side and the front... in the same picture! They made some very interesting drawings! 4th grade artists used primary colors for their first painting project. They learned about symmetry, and used their knowledge to make funky looking faces. Great work!

Weekly Update!

Here are some pictures of what's been going on in Art class over the last week. Despite 3 snow days in the last 2 weeks(!!), students have accomplished some great things.
First, here are a few pictures from the 8th Grade class. Most students are working on African Art designs. Those that finished early are creating small pieces of artwork from modeling clay, like this awesome snake eating a rat. :)

a few more!

January Art

Here are some recent photos of artwork completed in the last month. Click any picture to see it enlarged. :)

Photos

Here are some photos to show you just a couple things that the students have been working on!