India Ink

India ink a new medium for my students, but they are doing a great job mastering it! Personally, it is one of my favorite mediums to work with. You can get such great line quality by using different brushes, pens, and twigs. Bamboo is a great subject to start with; it's relatively easy but the results are always very cool:

Pop Art

PoP ArT

Lower school just finished up a unit on Pop Art. Students had a great time testing their understanding of the style by playing the game Pop or Not! I showed students a slideshow of famous art and they had to guess whether or not it was pop...or not! 4th graders practiced drawing three-dimensional objects by making Andy Warhol inspired soup cans:

3rd grade studied Wayne Theibaud's (pronouced "Tebow") dessert series and created ceramic cupcakes. The construction is basically two pinch pots; one for the frosting, the other for the base. We created the ridges by pressing the base into a rubber cupcake mold.

Monet Waterlilies

Kindergarten traveled to the art room for this assignment. The previous art teacher painted Monet's Waterlilies on the wall; it served as a visual aid as my little artists learned how to do small, visible impressionistic brushstrokes.

Two Point Perspective

Two point perspective is a technique that uses two vanishing points and two orthogonal lines to create a 3D image on a 2D surface. Middle school students used this technique to create a 3D fantasy tree house. We were inspired by several artists and architects that have taken their designs to new heights:
Tree House on Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art
 

Korowai people of Papua New Guinea


Oregon, USA


Student designs