Native American Cave Drawings

Over thousands of years Native American art history has evolved from cave drawing to ornate jewelry, basketry, pottery and blanket design. Students in the picture are creating cave drawings on brown kraft paper and trying to recreate a cave wall. On the wall they are making symbols and creating meaning from a chart of Native American symbols.

Sunday in the Park with George

One more from the dot unit!

Fantastic! These are students own line drawing in pencil and then filled in with dots to create texture, depth, shape and motion! Beautifully done ninth grade!

More incredible DOTS

This cityscape is phenomenal in it rendering... Look from afar and up close the buildings and their reflections are amazing.

Dot dot dot and connect the DOTS!

We have been studying dots and how their varying size, shape and color can make shadows in a picture and come together to form an incredibly TEXTURED picture. Students used q-tips and water colors to dot images they created AND to give depth to outlines of Seurat's Sunday in the Park, Van Gogh's Sunflowers and da Vinci's Mona Lisa! See their work and look at it up close! ALL were created with dots!

Leaves: sketchings, rubbings, and using them as brushes

Students never cease to amaze me. Juan created a beautiful fall scene with three colors and a bunch of leaves. If you look closely, you can see that he created this ENTIRE scene below by using the leaves as a paintbrush and stamps. He drew the trunk with the stem of the leaf to get fine lines, he used the leaves as a stamp to create the leaf prints in the tree, and he used a bunch of leaves scrunched up to turn them in a circle to create the sun. AMAZING creativity and AMAZING picture.

Oy. Vey. BALLLONS

This did not go as planned. And well, we all can learn from our mistakes. I am most proud that the kids did amazing work with what they had. By that I mean directions from me, a balloon, glue and tissue paper. The idea was students would end up with beautifully shaped papier-mâché balloons and create bowls or piñatas. That did not happen because we glued the paper to the balloon and when we deflated the balloons the orbs deflated as well. SO, the kids created amazing bowls, masks, piñata's and hot air balloons anyway!!! They changed the whole ending of this project by being creative! Thank you!!!!

Leaf Peeping

An autumnal day and leaves are the way to go. I collected leaves at Forest Hills Cemetery and had students draw them in pencil and do leaf rubbings with colored pencils or crayons. Thank you to Ms. Lydon (art teacher at the Sumner) for the fantastic ideas! Students produced great work! Some even had time to "paint" with leaves as the brushes!