What Can You Do With a Dot?

All School Murals

Inspired by The Dot

Grade 2 Pumpkins

Demonstrating use of shading with oil pastel

Grade 1 Circle Prints

Black tempera circle prints, with crayon, marker and Dot makers.

Kindergarten Circle practice

Kindergarten practiced tracing, cutting, and gluing circles, and drawing and tracing around circles.

Handprint Sunflowers

Kindergarten 

Sunflowers are made from hand prints with tissue paper centers.

This art was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's sunflower paintings.

Kindergarten students designed the background in Van Gogh's distinct style with oil pastel, and the vases with Sharpie marker and crayon.

Cherry Blossom Trees

Grade 3 

Watercolor and tissue paper Cherry Blossom Trees.

Georgia O'Keefe Paintings

Grade 2

Abstract watercolor paintings inspired by Georgia O'Keefe.

Chihuly Sculptures!

Grade 2 

Model Magic sculptures, inspired by glass artist Dale Chihuly. 

Painted with watercolors, silver and gold acrylic paint added to finish.

The Art is Coming, The Art is Coming!

Art portfolios will be going home in the next couple of weeks. They are pretty big, and I am encouraging students not to fold them up and stuff them into backpacks! These are masterpieces, and your children are going to be so proud to show them off at home!

Kandinsky Study

Grade 3

Watercolor & Oil Pastel

Pizza Collage

Grade 1

Grade 2 Pastel & Glue Fish

Very Hungry Caterpillars!

These kindergarten "Hungry Caterpillars" are currently displayed on the bulletin boards outside of the teacher's room in the front hallway. The kindergarten really got to show off their watercolor painting skills!

Auction Project Alert!

This was the auction project thumb printed and painted by 3M. A very popular item this year!

Paper Mache Masks

Grade 5 is finishing up Paper Mache masks. They are almost complete, and working a few last finishing touches. The 2 bottom photos are at the drying stage, after the students did the initial paper mache, and before they primed and painted the masks.They are all very unique and the kids are so excited about showing them off!

Glazed Clay!

Here a few of the glazed clay projects before they went home last week. We used a new glaze this year (Speedball), and the colors were reliable and consistant. The projects were beautiful!

Grade 5 cups with handles

Grade 4 Coil Pots

I Can Fly!

Grade 4

Oil pastel night-time city drawings with a fabric quilted border. 

Based on the story telling and artwork of Faith Ringgold.

Kindergarten Watercolor Rainbows

Kindergarten Heart Paintings

These February hearts are beautiful! They were made by the Kindergarten artists, and all were the feature of The Eventide Gallery here in Essex last month. The students learned about symmetry to make the hearts, practiced making a pattern for the border, and painted with "tints". They were all unique!  Here are a few examples...

Clay Update!

Clay projects are glazed and are being loaded into the kiln. We are using a new, more reliable glaze this year, so we are all very excited to see how these come out!

2-Point Perspective

Grade 5

Introduction to 2-point perspective

Texture Castles

Grade 3

crayon rubbings inspired by the artwork of Paul Klee

Starry Night Paintings

Grade 1 

Starry Night

oil Patel and tempera paint on black paper

Complementary Color Collages

Clay Week!

We started clay week last week - the most favorite week of the year! The kids LOVE working with clay and we are very lucky to have a kiln in our school. The entire process for clay is a long one, with making, drying, firing, glazing, firing again. So, it will be a few weeks before these go home. The pictures are from the projects inside the kiln, ready to fire, and from some projects drying on the shelf.

Welcome!

Welcome to Mrs Doherty's new blog for the EES art room! I am a first time blogger, so this is going to be a trial run for me, hope it works! I have been trying to figure out a way to get more exposure for the art projects at our school, and this seemed like a fun and easy way to get it started.

Grade 2 Animal Collages