Fall-warm colors, organic shapes and lines

So many things to love about this assignment.  Students as young as Kindergartners drew their own leaf step by step.  And as usual, each one is still unique! We added color with tissue paper squares glued on and mounted the leaf on brown paper affixed to purple- a complimentary color to the yellow/gold. The organic swirl lines made us think of the wind blowing the leaves off of the trees.

On Display-Part Two

This bulletin board was a favorite this winter as the students dreamed of snow and building snowmen.
Called 'A worm's eye view of a snowman' the larger ones were done in watercolor by the Autism classes and the smaller ones with a snowman in each corner were done by Kindergarteners with colored pencils.  All classes outlined their work with black Sharpies.

Super cute snowmen!

On Display

This was a favorite assignment with the first graders:  Space in space! We learned to think about space in artwork.  The area around, between and within objects.

Here's an award winner with his space composition. 

We did this simple printmaking assignment in Art club using recycled water bottle bottoms for the flower shapes.  Dip the bottom into the pink paint and impress the paint onto the tree branches.

 Finish up with some highlights on the flowers with white paint.  

Below: students working on cityscapes!