Mrs.Williams Art Room

As promised, I have included a video tutorial of my art projects. This project is inspired by James Rizzi's Birds. My fifth grade students have been begging to do more clay and so here's there first clay project of the year. Stay tuned for student art work. My    u J ames Rizzi was born in 1950 in Brooklyn. He studied art in Florida (Gainesville), where he started experimenting with printing, painting and sculpting. Rizzi’s work often shows his birthplace New York. His paintings look sometimes childishly native, with many the bright colors.  Students at work Love how this one is turning out! Can't wait to see more! Supplies needed: Clay Rolling Pin or something to make clay flat 4.5 x 4.5 inch template square toothpicks Water dish Clay or non-clay tools                                               ...

        Sometimes it can be difficult trying to create lessons that will engage middle school students. This lesson is from a workshop that I did using modeling paste to create textured paintings. Since I have a lot of boys in my class that love graffiti I thought "Why not?", lets create our own graffiti walls. So we did! We used Modeling paste and a brick wall stencil to create the wall and while that was drying we learned to create graffiti names. Check out the videos and images below of there amazing work. Supplies used:  Flexible Modeling paste Cardboard any size Palette Knife Tempera paint (red) (black) brushes Sticky foam cubes Glue White 8 x 11 inch Tag board Scissors Markers Colored Pencils Crayons Painting our brick walls  Adding shadows to create dimension   Cutting out our names Here are few completed projects.

This year my goal is to make my room more streamed lined. So I found these great baskets at the dollar store. Unfortunately, they only come in three colors, so Rust-Oleum to the rescue! I painted three baskets to coordinate with my table colors in the room. So I now have my warm and cool color baskets. Here's what's going in the baskets, each table will have wipe boards, expo markers w/erasers, crayons, scissors, pencils and erasers. I also color coordinated my wipe board erasers and expo markers. Amazon order, 30 wipe boards, markers and erasers. They're a big hit!  The kids loved it!  They were so engaged!