Clay faces and artistic places.

Things have been busy in the art room since the holiday break and the time has flown but I will gladly say good-bye to January! The kids have been finishing up auction projects and we welcomed my student teacher Ms. Zapata from North Park University who will be with us for the next several months.  So far she has been a great addition to the North Park community and I really appreciate having another artist to collaborate with.

The seventh graders have been working with clay for the last several weeks. They made gorgeous clay Picasso faces that are on display in the glass case on the first floor. 

Then made really cool clay texture squares that were grouped together for the auction piece. Here are a couple of examples of some additional squares that some students were inspired to make after they finished their first one. 

This week we started to work on a one-point perspective project that involves drawing a city from a birds eye view. Students were assigned a famous artist to research and they have to represent that artist in their cities. They can use the artists paintings and they can make their buildings in shapes that might represent the work of a the artist.  It is a great project that covers a lot of learning objectives.