First Grade Portraits of their Favorite Book Character

The first grade artists took some time to study portraiture. Then they painted these portraits of their favorite book character. Great work first grade artists.

Mail as Art

I have invited a few students to be part of the Shamrock Springs Afternoon Art Co-op, I think we could probably think of a better and shorter name. Our theme was mail as art. We used many different techniques to create artvelopes or art-envelopes. We were inspired by this book. The idea was to make the envelope a traveling piece of artwork. The co-op kids have some great ideas of who they would like to send them to.

Here are some of the envelopes we are going to send out to people.

Be on the look out for an artvelope in you mail box.

Under the Snow

The fourth grade artists have been printing for the past few sessions.  We were inspired to make these artworks after reading the book Over and Under the Snow.  The lesson taught the young artist the many steps it takes to make print.

We also enjoyed looking at this print and many of the other prints from Banquet Atelier and Workshop

A quick still life before break

The fourth grade had finished their architecture unit before winter break so they created these poinsettia still lifes. Pretty cool.

Creative Kinders

Texture collage with the Dadas

The fourth grade artists made these collages while they were studying the Dada artists. We learned that this is one of the techniques the Dadaists used. There is also a lot of images on the web that celebrate this technique.

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The Marshmallow Challenge

It is great to be back in the Shamrock Art Studio. To start off the year third and fourth grade artists stretched their creative and team building skills with the Marshmallow Challenge. The class was split into 6 teams of 4 artists, they got 20 pieces of dried spaghetti, a yard of tape, a yard of string, one big marshmallow and 5 little marshmallows. The task was to build the tallest structure and top it with marshmallow, that was it, the rest was up to them.