6th Grade Ceramic Bags

6th grade has been busy assembling their slab ceramic bags.  Students used pasta to create organic patterns on their pieces.  In this lesson students are focusing on techniques like creating slabs and properly scoring, slipping and blending. Great work so far 6^th Grade!  We look forward to showing you their final pieces.

Art Awards for 1st Quarter

A big congratulations to Mrs. Mazon’s  4^th Grade class and Mrs. Smith’s class in 2^nd grade.  They are the winners of the 1^st quarter art award!! We (Mrs. Phelps and Mrs. Paradis) worked hard to create a special necklace for each Champion Artist. 

To win, classes must fill their “Class Palette” with as many colors as possible.  How do they win colors? Classes must work as a team to achieve Champion behavior every week!

Here is a poem written by Mrs. Paradis for our winners:

The Art Winners

You worked as a team

You each did your part

To keep your agreements

And create great Art.

 

One hundred percent

Is the effort you gave,

And in trying new things

You were nothing but brave.

 

So today you are winners

And it is out pleasure

To bring you a prize

A handmade Art Treasure!

 “Class Palette”

Mrs. Mazon's Class

3rd Grade Boothill project

3rd grade has worked hard over the past three weeks creating cowboy boots. Students started with a watercolor wash background to look like a sunset. They then learned about drawing silhouettes.  We talked about and looked at plants from the desert where we live.  The last step was designing a cowboy or cowgirl boot.  Students focused on painting with control and using the watercolors properly.   Great work 3^rd grade!

2nd Grade Concentric Circles

2nd Grade Concentric Circles: This beautiful project was a lot of fun. We taught color mixing with tempera paint and the students were very absorbed tracing concentric circles and then filling them with unique, never-before-seen colors. Then, students used Q-tips and metallic paint to make patterns. Guided experimentation, using the vocabulary of art and the process itself -- rather than a fixed outcome -- is all part of the early art experience at TCDS.

2nd a grade

6th Grade Perspective Drawing

6th Graders have been working on perspective drawings of an imaginary city. Lots of great creativity is happening in this class. Students not only have been focusing on drawing 1-point perspective correctly but have been practicing how to shade buildings to down depth.

Please note that students are currently in he middle of this project. 

8th Grade Ceramic Houses

8th Grade has been working hard kn their ceramic houses. Students started by creating a model using posterboard before diving into the clay. This 8th grade class has great ideas and is not afraid to take creative risks! Yeah!!

4th Grade Movement Study

4th Grade was busy last week analyzing a variety of different artists and how they show movement in their art. Students then created a figure showing movement. Great work 4th Grade! This week 4th grade is studying Picassco's Blue Period.  Students will be drawing musical instruments and painting them with tints and shades of blue.

7th Grade Giacometti Sculptures

7th Grade has been busy studying motion in sculpture and creating their own sculptures in the style of Giacometti an artist they studied. Here is their work in progress.