Exploratory Ryan

After completing their weaving, students then created Op Art shapes to place on top of their weaving.

Here a student is completing his Op Art Sphere.

And here you can see a collection of spheres and cubes!

A completed piece, being graded by the artist. Self-reflection and critique is an important skill for students.

We have some MAJOR op art shapes going on here!

Ryan Art 6 A3

A3 Art 6 Ryan

Welcome to the new semester! Here you can see students working on their CASTLES! This is our semester project! Students will have the  next 17 weeks to work on this project. Next up we will be filling them with pattern!

Going over our lines in sharpie!

Tracing on to our final paper!

All focusing on different stages!

Ryan Art 6 Georgia O'Keefe

Art 6 Georgia O'Keefe Drawings

We have moved on to our (LAST) project of the semester.

A quick study on Georgia O'Keefe!

Here we are drawing from life- looking at skulls and flowers.

These drawings will be transformed into a an oil pastel drawing!

What a nice, quiet focused way to head into the holiday break!

Exploratory Ceramic Whistles Part 2

I had so many lovely examples that I had to show them all off!

A perky puppy!

A lion!

A plucky beaver!

A grizzly bear!

My room sometimes feels like a zoo, but today it really looked like a zoo!

Exploratory Ceramic Whistles

Here is a look inside our kiln, as I'm unloading. Each time I unload the kiln it's like a little surprise for me! How will the piece have turned out? Will they all be successful?

It makes me very happy to see a kiln with no broken pieces laying on the ground. That means we had no explosions or breakage! Woop!

Each of these piece has been carved out to be a whistle. Students could make an animal, insect or fantasy animal. Above we have a lovely Pegasuses.

Here we have a walrus, look at those great fat wrinkles!

This chubby raccoon balances nicely on his back feet!

And be quiet for this sleeping kitten.

To create these student had to pay close attention to details, shapes, forms and textures. To create something in 3 dimensions requires a shift in the brain from thinking one side to all 360 degrees. There are so many good ones I have more!

The Totem is Coming

Huge thanks to Ms. Davis- our wonderful shop teacher for loaning tools and students to create our totem pole! It took a lot of elbow grease to get so many totem's cut for student use!

THANK YOU MS. DAVIS!!! :)

Getting Ready for Totem Poles

Our Art 6 students will be making a totem pole. Each student is getting a 6" section of PVC pipe to build around. This will be a ceramic project- and will eventually be installed in the courtyard and hopefully the office! 

And Mrs. Ryan is getting to play with the Miter Box Saw. And everybody is happy.

Exploratory 6 Clay Whistle

It's hard to get picture of these wonderful animals when your elbow deep in clay.

Sorry for the long delay! Our students are making WHISTLES from clay! And they are amazing!

Look at the texture and detail on this one!

This student made a pegasus!

And we have a sleeping kitty cat!

And a bear in progress!

Working in 3D is much harder then 2D. STudents have new elements they have to consider, such as: texture (how it feels), space, 360 degree of detail! 

Hopefully- (if I get my hands out of the clay!) we'll get more pictures up!

Art 6 Ryan B1

Art 6 more realistically colored monotypes!

We have an amazing jungle cat and a prairie dog. 

Take notice of the shading and background details in each one.

Art 6 Coloring Monotypes

Art 6 is almost done with their third version of their monotype!

The realistically colored one! Students mastered their color wheel and now they're coloring using blending and shading.

Wow! These look great!

6th Grade Social

The 6th grade social was TOO MUCH fun!

The students all had a great time dancing, singing, and being goofy.

The DJ did a great job keeping the kids excited!

Ryan Art 6 Monotype

Students are working on their trace monotypes. Monotype is a print where you ONLY get 1 print per plate. (The name literally means 1 print!) Students ink their plates

Then they gently lay their paper on top of the inked plate and trace their amazing animal drawings. Once their done you have to carefully pull the paper back.

This artwork has a great 'Ta-Da!' moment!

See what I mean: TA-DA! :)