Zilker Elementary Art Class

Fourth Grade students are studying Value and Texture. We created four value scales using different shading techniques: blending, hatching, ...

Third grade students are studying the artist Pablo Picasso and his style of art called Cubism. We looked at many of Picasso's Cubist po...

Second Grade students are hard at work on their Native American Shields. Each student choose a symbol to represent his or her personality. ...

Jasper Johns is the artist Kinder students are studying. We looked at his number and alphabet paintings closely, and talked about all the p...

Fifth grade students are studying Mexican Bark Paintings. Students had to choose an animal and depict that animal in motion. After looking...

First Graders are studying the Spanish Surrealist artist Joan Miro. We looked at many of his paintings and drawings and discussed his use o...

Kinder students are making snowmen! We are using our fingers to tear paper instead of scissors. This gives the paper texture, somewhat like...

Second Graders are hard at work on their O'Keeffe flower paintings. After learning about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe , students cre...

After learning about the artist Leonardo Da Vinci and his never-finished horse sculpture, students created their own horse sculptures out...

Fourth Grade students are studying Folk Art from Mexico. Milagros are small metal pendants that represent a wish or a prayer. Milagros are ...