Week of 5/1/2023 - Cyanotypes with visiting artist, cake sculpture and sunflowers!

 UTK students created a sunflower art on 8x10 canvases using paint sticks and tempera paint. We looked at Vincent Van Gogh's painting of a sunflower and a real sunflower to observe the colors, patterns and shapes. Students drew the flower, colored the background using blue or purple, added orange lines inside the petals and painted the petals yellow using tempera paint. They completed their works by painting the stem and leaves using green tempera paint and adding black or brown to the center of their flower.

Kinders used line, and shape patterns to create relief sculptures of birthday cakes inspired by San Diego cake artist Tara Heather. We used cardstock with construction paper strips of 3 different lengths. Students used metallic markers and color sticks to create line and shape patterns and customize their cake. We then folded the sides, glued them down and added a table and candles to complete works. 

 1st grade students had a visit from artist Lorena Mostajo via a generous grant from Space4Art. Lorena talked to students about how photos are created and explained how they were going to make photos using the sun. Students worked in small groups with her arranging, composing and overlapping objects on a special blue paper in the sun and using water to wash the chemicals off to reveal "photos" of their objects.

Our principal participated in the lesson to create his own cyanotype!

 

The other students in the classroom collaborated to create a weaving project on plastic fence. We used wide, colorful yarn to go over and under the openings to create our work!

 

 

Week of 4/24/2023 - More digital art with 4ths and 5ths

 5ths continued working on their mural design and submitted their works from Sketchpad in my Google Classroom. I am so proud of these students for embracing a new software and creating these amazing designs. There is so much variety in the quotes, colors and the way in which each students changed the letters to make them more interesting!

4ths worked on creating a double exposure lesson. Based on the theme of "Exploration" for an upcoming juried exhibit at the Museum of Photographic Arts at Balboa Park, students picked a hobby, place or something they wanted to explore. We used a photo from Google using the Creative Commons collection. Each student then photographed themselves in poses that would be meaningful in the photo they chose. We used removed.bg website to get rid of the background in their photos and superimposed their photo to the Google photo using Google slides.