Thursday, August 22, 2013
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Zentangle Name Mural
Finished Zentangle Mural! Tangled Names of Harris!
To start the year we are creating a school wide zentangle mural. Each student (and some teachers!) are creating a piece of the mural using their names and some zentangle designs. Here's a sneak preview.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Itty Bitty City Prints
Itty Bitty City Prints
I may have posted about this project in the past, but I just love they way that they turn out, so I took a few pictures of the process to share with you. Our 4th graders are working on this right now.
On the first day of class I introduced the project by talking about architecture and interior design, because they go hand in hand. I showed the students a slideshow of cityscapes from around the world and had them take notice of the sizes, shapes and structures of buildings and details that they saw.
Next, I gave each student a 6x9 inch piece of drawing paper. We folded it in have like a book and painted with water color using WARM colors on the top to represent a sunset and COOL colors on the bottom to represent a body of water.
I set up ONE table for 4 kids at a time to print at with mat for printing, ink, scrap paper, a clean brayer and a brayer for inking. The students then rolled ink over their foam city and printed it in the sky. When they were done with the sky, the students printed their city upside down in the water to represent a reflection. (I know they dont line up because it is a mirror image, but it still looks cool!)
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Harris Elementary Art Show 2013
Mrs. Mount painting a tiny hand.
Some students and their family members taking photos.
Finger knit weaving
3rd grade Fall Trees. Th students learned a little bit about perspective by adding trees in the foreground, middle ground and background.
"All about ME" word collages. This was a mixed media project using recycled dictionary pages, magazines, yarn, texture sheets and foil.
Our P.E. teacher, Mr. Quarando painting a student's face.
Ms. Knight painting a student's face.
These are some cool mustaches!
4th grade copper name plates
Matthew peeking through our SCREAM mural, inspired by Edvard Munch!
Show me your best SCREAM face!
Mrs. Mount painting away.
Special guest, Mrs. Winiasz face painting at the art show!
Our Principal, Mrs. Schwartz painting a student's hand :).
Some parents checking out our awesome finger knit weaving.
Monday, March 11, 2013
CIRCLE PAINTING! ART FOR ALL, ALL FOR ART!
The video link above shows Harris Elementary's gym and art class combined last week. The students learned about circle painting. Circle Painting is devoted to community-based art. Circle Painting is a group of artists, teachers, and community leaders who are all for art and want to bring art for all into communities. They are based in Southern California. Since we could not bring this creative group to us, I decided to use their project as inspiration and create some circle painted murals, Harris style.
or check them out on Facebook!
We couldn't have done this project without our gym teacher, Mr. Quarando. We had around 60 students in the gym at a time, painting, doing sit-ups, pull ups and playing a bean bag relay. The gym was set up in stations so that each student could paint and also perform some fitness assessments as well. It was an exhausting week for us, but totally worth it!
By Friday, all 600 of our Harris students will have taken part of this giant mural project. This is why I love my job!
Just a portion of our group circle mural :) The kids are having a blast.
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