Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings

Kinder Art students are learning about the Pop artist Jasper Johns.  We looked at several of his paintings and especially focused on his number and letter paintings.  After brain-storming about where we can find letter and numbers all around our world ( license plates, clocks, signs, watches, phones, computers, etc.), we practice drawing numbers or letters with crayons.  Then we drew our numbers or letters on the white paper with oil pastels.  Next, we added paint just like Jasper Johns: putting a small amount of each color inside each number or letter box.  Here are some photos of students adding one color at a time with paint.

Zilker's 2013 School-wide Student Art Show!

Zilker's annual School-wide Student Art Show is up - making our hallway at Zilker turn into an amazing museum!  It is so hard to photograph the ceiling to floor class banners with all of the art work, so this year I have zoomed in on a few artworks so that our internet viewers could see the beautiful details of a few artists in each class.  If you can, please come up and see the art in person - each student has a piece up, and each is unique and beautiful in its own way.  Great job Zilker artists!

 4th Grade Self Portrait Paintings, Ms. Irvine's Class

 5th Grade Mexican Bark Paintings, Mr. Woodage's Class

 Kinder Owl Paintings, Ms. Caroline's Class

 Kinder Piet Mondrian Animals, Mr. Garland's Class

 3rd Grade Keith Haring Collages, Ms. Rakusin's Class

 4th Grade Self Portrait Paintings, Ms. Thompson's Class

 2nd Grade Henri Matisse Collages, Ms. Dailey's Class

 5th Grade Mexican Bark Paintings, Ms. Thompson's Class

 1st Grade Joan Miro Paintings, Ms. Avant's Class

 4th Grade Self Portrait Paintings, Ms. Brosko and Ms. Hardwick's classes

 3rd Grade Laurel Burch Cats & Dogs, Ms. Buono's Class

 2nd Grade Georgia O'Keeffe Flower Paintings, Ms. Side's Class

1st Grade Pop Art Cupcake Sculptures, Ms. McLendon's Class

 Ms. Russell's 5th Grade Mexican Bark Paintings

 1st Grade Joan Miro Paintings, Ms. Murphy's Class

 Kinder Owl Paintings, Ms. Wolden's Class

 3rd Grade Laurel Burch Cats & Dogs, Ms. Kent's Class

 3rd Grade Keith Haring Collages, Ms. Lugo's Class

Kinder Owl Paintings, Mr. Aziz's Class

2nd Grade Fish Sculptures, Ms. Wynn's Class

2nd Grade Georgia O'Keeffe Flower Paintings, Ms. Saucedo's Class

Kinder Owl Paintings, Ms. Caswell's Class

1st Grade Joan Miro Paintings, Ms. Shapiro's Class

3rd Grade Keith Haring Collages, Ms. Weaver's Class

4th Grade Wayne Thiebaud Dessert Prints

 Fourth Grade students have been studying the Pop Art of artist Wayne Thiebaud and his dessert paintings and prints.  Students practiced drawing many different kinds of desserts, using shading techniques like hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling to show texture and shadows.  Students chose their best drawing to turn into a relief print.  They traced their drawing onto a piece of Styrofoam, engraving the lines into the Styrofoam.  The following photos show most of the steps they had to take to make their prints.

Here a student carefully rolls the brayer loaded with ink across his or her Styrofoam printing plate.

Here a student is loading the brayer with printing ink so he can carefully get his printing plate ready for printing.

These two photos show students placing the printing plate face down onto a paper, and then rubbing the back of the paper carefully to help print the ink evenly on the front of the paper.

Another student rolling ink onto his printing plate to get ready to print.

And here are two students carefully pulling their prints; taking the paper off of the printing plate to reveal their final prints!

 A delicious slice of cake!

 A decadent ice cream sundae!

An amazing triple scoop ice cream cone!

Here are a few of the finished prints!  They make me hungry just looking at them!  All the students did a fantastic job at all of the many steps it took to create their prints!

3rd Grade Picasso Faces Paintings

Third Grade Zilker artists have just finished their Picasso Double Face paintings!  We looked at several of Pablo Picasso's portraits of people and discussed how he used Cubism to create them.  The style of Cubism allowed him to show more than one view of a single person in one painting.  We learned how to show both a side view and a front view of a person in the same drawing, and then we divided the face into different shapes to further abstract it. We painted the shapes different bright colors, and finally added black lines for contrast.  At the end, students wrote an "exit Ticket" to describe what they learned during this project. They all did a fantastic job!