Mrs.Williams Art Room

  Clay animals and creatures. My seventh and eighth grade basic design class completed these at the end of the trimester. We learned about a few clay hand building techniques, bisque fired them and used tempera paint to make them come to life with color.        

                                  Angry Birds!!! This was a simple lesson on pinch pot methods and hand building with clay. I have three six grade classes that I see each week, and I decided instead of having almost 90 clay projects of the same thing each class created a different clay project. One class created pinched pot snowmen and this one created Angry Birds.  I'm still not sure as to what I want to do with the next sixth grade class. Any suggestions?    We used tempera paint for color and they turned out great. Each one is so different.

This was my first year doing this project but it will not be my last.  My seventh and eighth graders really enjoyed this lesson. I introduced the class to artists like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and a few other Pop Artist. We examined their work and discussed the types of subject matters they used in their paintings. Since, we were focusing on quite a few Pop Artist I decided to use Super Heroes as our theme (I figured this was something that most of my students could relate to). I printed out a few super hero pictures for inspiration. We created a few simple sketches for warm-up and then made our final copies on 12X18 white paper. We used tempera paint for color. Students could use the style of any of the artist that we discussed in class. Below are a few of my student examples.          

This is a lesson that reinforces the elements of art and principles of design (line,color, pattern and repetition).  We start out by dividing a 12x18 sheet of white paper with a black marker. Students may divide the paper using any type of line, remembering to make large sections to design in. After they divide the paper students use colored markers and begin designing using as many types of lines they can think of. (I have a large patter and line poster in the room when students seem to get blocked for ideas). I tell the students not to color in sections  but use the lines as the filler.              This Quality check board serves two purposes, one to show students what type of quality work I expect on all projects and this serves as a large scale rubric to show them what score is possible for the quality they give me on this Line Design project.

    Kindergarten "Cookie Monster Painting" was fun, the kids really enjoyed painting their cookie monster and adding brown and black for the cookies.  This lesson focused on texture and color. Below are a few examples of Cookie Monster.