The Week in Review

Most of my classes are mid project right now, so I don't have much to post in the way of final products, but here are a few action shots of some of my classes this week...

Seventh graders are glazing the coil pots that they created out of clay a few weeks ago based on traditional Greek pot shapes. Stay tuned for the final fired pieces:

Sixth grade Art History class created fresco paintings on Wednesday. Read more about the process from my first quarter post:

Eighth graders are nearing the completion of their multimedia still life projects (I've given the girls a Thanksgiving deadline). After making a line drawing of a still life, students cut their work into four sections and have used pencil, oil pastel, watercolor and collage in each of the sections- you can see three of the four mediums being used in these photos:

LS Art Club members have been printmaking for the past two sessions. They learned about Kente cloth from Ghana and are using a three step reduction process to create a Kente pattern of their own. Details and photos to come, but here they are pulling some prints: