End of the Year Projects

Summer is near, but we are still busy in the art room with our last projects.  With all the schedule changes for field trips, concerts and field days, we are scrambling to finish these projects!

  
Fifth Graders are finishing their Mexican Bark Paintings, and third graders are finishing their Picasso Paintings and clay fish sculptures.

 Kinder Students are studying African Masks and Symmetry. We first practiced drawing a few masks, then we started cutting out shapes and gluing.

First Graders are finishing their self portrait collages.  These are always favorites of parents!

 Fourth Graders are sewing.  We are learning the cross-stitch, straight stitch, running stitch, and satin stitch, as well as studying radial design!

 Last, but not least, second graders are creating paper weavings, studying the artist Wassily Kandinsky and the warm and cool color schemes. Fingers crossed that we get everything completed by next week!

Zilker's 2014 School-wide Student Art Show

The main hallway of Zilker Elementary is now the Zilker Museum!  Every student has a piece of artwork on display...it is a sight to behold.   This year the art show is also interactive because you can scan QR codes to find out more about how we created the art, or find out more about the artist who inspired us to create.

Fifth Grade's Hundertwasser Collages

Fourth Grade's Wayne Thiebaud cupcake Sculptures

Third Grade's Weavings

Third Grade's Keith Haring Collages

Second Grade's Georgia O'Keeffe's Flower Paintings

First Grade's Eric Carle Collages

First Grade's Quilts

Kinder Pablo Picasso Guitar Collages

Mr. McNitt's class made these awesome house prints and added color with chalk in Ms. Jepson's art class.


Every year students continue to amaze me with their talent in art!  I sincerely hope you had time to see this art show in person.....what a lucky art teacher I am to be able to work with such creative art students!

4th Grade Self Portraits a la Matisse

Fourth Grade artists are painting their self portraits.  We looked at several of Henri Matisse's portraits and talked about his use of simple stylized lines in the people's faces, as well as his extensive use of pattern in the backgrounds behind the people.  In one portrait alone we counted fourteen different patterns!  Students carefully drew their faces using proportion.  We talked about facial proportions and measured with rulers to correctly place the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and eyebrows. Then students drew five or six patterns in the background.

Students had the most fun adding the brightly colored paints.  Last we added oil pastel for fine details in the background.

Check out the finished portraits with oil pastel details here at our online museum at Artsonia!

http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?exhibit=786811