Zilker School-wide Student Art Show 2012

 First Grade Eric Carle Collages

 First Grade Eric Carle Seahorses

 Third Grade Weavings

 Second Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings

 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages

 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing

 Third Grade Weavings

 1st Grade Eric Carle Butterflies

 2nd Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings

 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages

 1st Grade O'Keeffe Paintings

 2nd Grade Wild Thing Watercolors

 Third Grade Weavings

 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing

 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages

 2nd Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings

 3rd Grade Dot Paintings

 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing

 2nd Grade Wild Thing Watercolors

 4th Grade Perspective Drawings

 Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings

 Kinder Picasso Guitars

Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings

5th Grade Mexican Bark Paintings

Fifth Grade Artists are studying a kind of Mexican Folk Art called Bark Painting and also known as Amate Painting. Mexican artists use the bark from a fig tree to create a natural paper that has great texture and a rich brown color. They then use bright paint to create vivid compositions that usually feature animals and plants. Zilker artists choose one animal, either imaginary or real, and had to draw the animal so that it shows movement. They added lots of plants and flowers around the animal, and framed it all with a repeating pattern that showed some overlapping. Here are students working hard on adding the fluorescent paint to their beautiful drawings.

4th Grade Radial Stitchings

Fourth Grade students have been working hard on their stitching designs. First students drew out a plan for their designs that included radial balance, which means that their designs have two lines of symmetry. Then, they started learning the different stitches: running stitch, straight stitch, cross-stitch, and satin stitch. Students also had to choose one of the following stitches to include in their designs: decorated running stitch, fancy running stitch, or long and short stitch. Using burlap cloth as our fabric is helpful since it is loosely woven and much easier to sew with the large diameter yarn. The designs are looking great - finished artwork will be on display at Zilker's annual School-wide Student Art Show on April 14th!

3rd Grade Fiber Weavings

Third Grade artists have finished their fiber weavings! They will be on display for the School-wide Art Show starting on April 14th. Students learned the tabby weave, the Egyptian knot, and added a shape as well as tapestry slits beside the shape. Check out these beautiful works of art soon!

Second Grade Kandinsky Weavings

Second Grade students studied the artist Wassily Kandinsky for inspiration to create a twist on our usual paper weavings. First, we "took a line for a walk" and drew a combination line with black crayon. Then we added texture by rubbing texture plates with crayons; students had to choose a warm color scheme or cool color scheme. Students added watercolor the next class, and we cut slits into the paper and wove the opposite color scheme colored paper strips into the paper, using the basic tabby weave. As a last step, we added texture to a black piece of paper to create a frame for our finished weaving.

1st Grade Eric Carle Collages

Students are studying the artist Eric Carle. We looked at his books "Mister Seahorse," "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," and "The Very Busy Spider" and talked about how he created his own textured paper to create the collages in his books. One class focused on seahorses, another on butterflies, and yet another on tropical birds.






First, students painted their paper using warm or cool colors. After each line of color was painted, students used tools or the wooden end of their paintbrushes to scratch textures or lines into the wet paint.



Students who created seahorses painted wavy lines on another paper, then traced, cut out, and glued the seahorse shape to that background paper, while adding rocks and seaweed. Other classes created their butterflies and tropical birds in similar ways, adding glitter, sequin, and oil pastel details. Look for these at the annual Zilker School-wide Student Art Show in April!