Sgraffito Fable Tiles

Sixth grade artists inspired me with their fable writings and sketches.  Since the Artist’s studio workshop at the beginning of the year where we focused on form, proportion and composition they have grown and developed as artists.  Check out these sketches, can’t wait to get to the tiles!

Animal Mashups

Grade 5- The artistic challenge for this project is to create a convincing new creature using two or more animals 🙂  The fun is naming them!  Shark+Peacock,  Dragon+Bunny, Butterfly+Elephant! What would you call these combined animals?  Visual texture, overlapping and areas of white are the artistic challenges that we focused on to finish up these pieces ~Enjoy!

Shoe Drawings

Grade 5-  Fifth graders drew their shoes in Art this week!  The windows were wide open in the art room as everyone put one of their shoes onto the table:)  They first drew the large shapes and looked at proportion.  After that the focus turned to details such as stitches, mesh and laces.  To wrap up the drawings, their final focus was value, creating a range of lights to dark.