Happy Halloween! Czaplicki A3 B1

Don't you wish you had these cool, homemade spooky masks?  I know I would buy these over any other pre-made mask. SUPER COOL!

May you and your "boo" have a very Happy Halloween! 

Czaplicki A3 Masks

Czaplicki B1 Art 6 Masks

I have some of the best (goofiest) students in the world. Look at these awesome (in process) masks!

Czaplicki Art 6 A3 Sketchbook and Paper Mâché

Our sketchbook today focused on doing a contour line drawing. Students had to keep their pencil on the paper and continuously draw. They were not allowed to pick their pencil up off the paper. They were also suppose to focus on the paint bottle 90% of the time and their drawing 10% of the time. This reinforces the idea to LOOK at what they draw. This insures accuracy and realistic detail. Very impressive!

Students also began paper mache-ing their masks based off of fear today. While it is MESSY- it is fun. We built armature's last class and now we're adding our first coat of paper mache. Students tore strips of newspaper, dipped them in paper mache glue, and then carefully laid them on top of the armature. 

Czaplicki 6th Grade Art 10/2/201

Ms Czaplicki's 6th graders these past two days got to pratice blind contour drawing for their sketchbook. This is an exercise to get students to LOOK at what the subject they are drawing, not at their drawing, Looking at our subject ensures that we draw what we see, not what we THINK it looks like.

Then we began to build our armatures for our masks that we will be making based off of a fear that we have. We spent last class discussing fear. We asked some questions with not so simple answers: Is fear a good or bad thing? Why? Do different cultures have different fears? Why? How do we react when we will fear? What are common fear? Why do we think those are common fears?

We worked in teams of two! Two heads are better then one!

I am really excited to see how they turn out. Their brainstorming sketches look awesome!