Georgia O'Keeffe

This week, we are learning about and being inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's art. The students enjoyed listening to the short children's version of her biography, Georgia O'Keeffe by Linda Lowery and viewing some amazing full color copies of her art work in the four main areas for which she is known: Flowers, Cityscapes, Bones, and Moodscapes. Yesterday, everyone was excited to get started! Here are some amazing examples of student works in progress:

4th grader

4th grader

4th grader

3rd grader

3rd grader

2nd grader

2nd grader

Korean Masks

I'm sad that I didn't get pictures of the rest of the students with their masks, but here is one class of 1st graders wearing their new Korean masks.

My friend came in again this year and taught them all about Korean masks; then we made our own masks out of paper.

Aren't they awesome???

white = young woman

red = young man

black = old person

Popping and/or Floating Boxes

Here's our new hall art display:

Some popping hands (1st and 2nd grades) and some popping and/or floating boxes (2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade)

Close up:

4th grade

3rd grade

2nd grade

2nd grade

Illusions: Hands

This week, we began learning about illusions. Here are a few examples of the first and second graders' work:

second grade

 second grade

first grade

first grade

first grade

Glowing Art

The kiln was done firing the students' glazed pieces right after school today.* I've told them how hot it gets and that it turns red, but it's not something that I can show them. That is until I took a super quick picture before getting burned! Some of the pieces almost looked translucent. What an amazing process! The students are going to love seeing this picture!

*The kiln had shut off, but was still super hot, about 1800*F! The last time I fired ceramics, the kiln was turned on around 8 AM and emptied around 7:30 AM the next day. The ceramics were still a little warm (easily handle-able though).