Beginning art making from Mexican inspiration

Students started this lesson with some history around the culture of early Mexican peoples, the process of making their Amate bark papers, and the similarities to Papyrus being made in Egypt.

Here are two videos demonstrating artistans creating the papers from those cultures respectively.

Drawing Techniques vases / faces

Art show

In Progress Upper school Zentangles

Some 1st grade Hyacinths

Kindergarten Tissue Paper Flowers

Students started by discussing the shape of petals, and a radial design...

7th and 8th grade homework, due June 1st

These six assignments are due by May 31st.  Each must be fully developed, shaded or colored work. Under-developed work and work on lined paper will not be accepted.

draw shoes with laces

draw a stack of books

draw a crumpled piece of paper

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE - please try to define each plain without using squiggly lines.

draw a banana peel

draw a set of keys

Kindergarten Collaborative Garden Drawings

Upper School still life drawing

Students are working on drawing a still life from a projected image and using "zentangle" designs for their backgrounds.

3rd grade Liberty Bell mixed media

Students used a technique of gluing salt to a black background paper before applying watercolor into the salt to create the fireworks.  These will be on display near Memorial Day, for our Art Show.