Student Art

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I taught my Hanbuilding for Families class how to make ceramic button flowers. I was very impressed when one of the children in the class, Sophie, went home and made a whole bouquet!

Kindergarteners painted Cherry Blossoms:

 

  

 

3rd graders wove bookmarks:

1st graders stitched flowers:

3rd graders drew Chinese Dragons:

  

5th graders drew contour line drawings of their shoes:

Here are some 5th grade contour line ink drawings of flowers with color pencil. The students looked at the botanical artwork of Charles Rennie Mackintosh for inspiration.

Here are some 1st Grade Tree Paintings. They were supposed to show the weather, the season, and the time of day in their paintings. I read the book Sky Tree by Thomas Locker to the kids before they made these paintings.

These are a few of the 4th Grade Wire Sculptures. 

They were supposed to make a human figure in an action pose.

I teach a class at a local community center called "Handbuilding for Families." Children and their parents take the class together and make all kinds of fun projects with clay.

I was very inspired by a student during the Fall 2011 session. He (with some help from his parents) made clay models of famous landmarks from around the globe: The Statue of Liberty, The White House, The Titanic, Big Ben, an English Phone Booth, The Liberty Bell, The Eiffel Tower, The Arc De Triomphe, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Here are a few examples: 

This is a slide show that I made with PhotoStory to help teach kids how to begin a coil basket. The coil basket is a fun project that students make in 6th grade. The most frustrating part is beginning the basket, so I hope that some of my students can look at the "video" while I'm helping other students. Here are a few photos of students' final baskets: