Art

Hey everyone! What a busy 5 weeks we’ve had in the Art room since our return from winter break! We used all the time we had to create art for the Auction. We are complete, the art created for the Auction was received with praise and joy, and now we are ready to move forward with the curriculum and explore new projects. I’m excited!

The focus on the past month was block printing, well, at least our expression of block printing.  Instead of carving on wood or rubber with cool, yet, sharp tools, we etched on foam boards for the same impression. 

The kids drew (with lots of pressure on the pencil) on the foam to then roll ink with a brayer unto the handmade stamp to transfer the image. We made many proofs and created awesome, one of a kind prints.  Thankfully we had a few classes to attempt the process...there were also some time throughout the month for free drawing and collaging scraps of paper to form their names.

Zola

Thought I would share this sweet picture from our Valentine Poetry reading last week. The kids also decorated cookies that day so the schedule of the day was slightly altered. That said, we had a short art class last week but the kids managed to make little valentines with watercolor and crayons. I hope you all received them as most were dedicated to a parent or both! 

What a sweet class!  

Next week we will have our Chinese New Year celebration so today in art class we drew (or painted) portraits of dogs (in honor of the Year of the Dog). It was just a simple step-by-step picture of a dog that the students had a choice to paint the outline (black paint on white paper, like a Sumi-e painting) or to just stick with colored pencils. We had an extra ten minutes at the end of class so we made origami dog faces.  

Gung Hay Fat Choy!!!