Wednesday, November 29, 2017

2nd Grade Clay Cupcakes

Second graders combined pinch pots and coils to make these delicious clay cupcakes in art class! They used great craftsmanship and creativity when decorating their cupcakes with toppings and designs as well!


Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Victorian Home Prints

Fourth grade students learned about Victorian style architecture during this lesson and created their own drawings of a Victorian style home. Next they transferred their drawings onto Styrofoam to create these wonderful prints and then glued them onto painted watercolor papers for a completed work of art!

Monday, October 30, 2017

Cornbread Inspired Owls

Second-grade students made these beautiful owl drawings while incorporating emphasis, texture, space, and neutral colors. They learned about the Georgia folk artist Cornbread during this lesson and had so much fun making these creative works of art!









Friday, October 6, 2017

Contour Instrument Drawings




Our fifth grade students having been busy creating these amazing contour instrument drawings in art class! They are learning about contour lines, emphasis, complementary and analogous colors as well as Op Art! Way to go 5th grade!!!









Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Rainbow Student Mural

Our students are having so much fun finding themselves in our colorful hallway display! All of Mrs. Nail’s art students created a self-portrait and then and used a monochromatic color design to complete their beautiful drawings!








Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Open Studio in the Art Room!

Students are enjoying having our open studio time this school year to catch up on their art projects or simply extend their creativity each morning in the art room! I'm so proud of their hard work and dedication!




Monday, May 15, 2017

Radical Radial Weavings

Third graders are rocking out these radical radial weavings! They are busy learning all about weaving techniques while making beautiful works of art and incorporating a variety of colors schemes into their designs as well!







Monday, March 6, 2017

Art Museum Perspective Drawings

During this lesson students learned about American artist, Norman Rockwell, and his famous illustrations. They used two-point perspective to create these wonderful museum paintings and then inserted a digital self-portrait into their work to make it appear as if they are viewing the art in their own museum designs.







Wednesday, February 22, 2017

4th Graders Visit the High Museum of Art

Our fourth grade students had a great time learning about art and literacy at the High Museum this week! They experienced the I See Literacy Tour during our visit which teaches students how to read artwork in the same way we read text by looking carefully at the artwork to see its details and making inferences based on what you see. They also participated in a hands on workshop to illustrate their own book cover inspired by an actual work of art from the museum! Way to go students!






Monday, February 13, 2017

Jim Dine Inspired Monoprints

Our second graders have been busy learning about symmetry, texture, and the monoprints of American artist Jim Dine.


Thursday, December 22, 2016

It's Snowing in the Art Room

Our third through fifth graders had some fun with symmetry and snowflakes on the
last day before winter break! Check out some of their beautiful designs!

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Reductive Printmaking

Our fifth-graders have been creating beautiful observational drawings of birds and now these fun and exciting prints through the medium of reductive printmaking.




Thursday, May 5, 2016

Our students had an awesome day visiting the Atlanta Botanical Gardens while connecting art, language arts and science! While viewing the sculptures of glass artist, Dale Chihuly, students created alliterations, wrote Haikus, used persuasive writing and more while writing about the art they viewed. Students also took time to sketch and create drawings while viewing these amazing works of art! Of course we also connected science to our trip with all of the plants and even the poison dart frogs that students enjoyed seeing in the Fuqua Conservatory and Orchid Center.







Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Frida Kahlo Inspired Self-Portraits

Third grade students were inspired by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her self-portraits as they created their own self-portraits while learning about the rules of correct proportion. Students also used their knowledge of space to create a background with animals and plants from the rainforest.