Favorite Teacher Portraits!

Students had fun recreating their Favorite Teachers in any media they chose!  I think the art is fantastic and our teachers thoroughly enjoyed seeing these wonderful art works!

We completed our Large Scale Food Paintings right before the AP Performance Final Art Show!  Very impressive and successful and the best part, ALL of my kiddos ENJOYED the lesson - who knew painting food could be so much fun!

Finished Figure Work

Our "Figure Fridays" were a huge success again this year! For 8 weeks we had dance students come into the art room to pose for about 10 minutes. Each Friday, our AP students did gesture drawings of the dancers using a different medium each day, so that they ended up with a large piece of paper with layers of figure studies done in graphite, charcoal, oil pastel, pen and ink, acrylic, watercolor, chalk, crayon and colored pencil. When the 8 weeks were over, my art students had 4 days to deconstruct their figure works and create a new piece! The work is OUTSTANDING!

Bike Drawings

I am really impressed with the technical drawings my students did of our classroom bikes! Several went beyond the technical and got very creative as well! I am in love with this class!

Very excited to see my 2010-2011 AP Blogspots that have been created over this past week! I will be posting them this week! We have a lot of work to post and we will be crazy busy getting ready for SCHOLASTIC entries...due in 1 week!!

GET EXCITED! My new AP visual art students will begin their 2010-2011 AP Blog Spots next week! The artwork they have been creating this year is FANTABULOUS! For a few examples check out my e-portfolio AP site: http://naea.digication.com/artstuff/2010-2011_AP_Lessons

In the meantime, we look forward to sharing our work and reflections with you SOON!

Stippling Project...

Students did a GREAT job working on their stippling project for their breadth section. Several students got create and figured out a way to add this to their concentration section!