Winter Stamping Collages

Kindergarten students were read the stories Snowmen at Night, Penguins, Penguins Everywhere, and Snowballs in art class for inspiration for these delightful winter collages. Students demonstrated printmaking through stamping techniques as well as cutting and gluing skills in this lesson.

 

 

                          

 

 

 

 

Organic Wire Sculptures

Fourth graders learned about British sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and their abstract organic closed forms as they created their own abstract sculptures. Color mixing and blending was then demonstrated by students as they completed their unique works if art.

      

 

Beverly Buchanan Shacks

First graders learned about artist Beverly Buchanan from Athens, Georgia, and her drawings, paintings, and sculptures of shacks. Using their knowledge of 3-dimensional forms, line, color, and texture, students then created their own works of art.

Scan the QR code below to read more about artist Beverly Buchanan.

 

 

 

Cubist Reductive Prints

Fifth graders learned about famous artist Pablo Picasso and his cubist portraits that combine both a profile and a frontal view. They used this technique as their inspiration as they created reductive self-portrait prints.

    

African Mask Collographs

   Third grade students learned about African masks and the clay masks designed by local Georgia artist Kimmy Cantrell during this lesson. Next, students planned and designed their own masks and created collographs to use for printmaking.

     

     

 

                                       

 

Clay Owl Sculptures

Second grade students demonstrated their knowledge of how to create pinch pots, coils, slabs, and visual and implied texture as they created these beautiful clay owls.

Clay Fossils

Kindergarten students learned about the formation of fossils in art class and the similarities and differences in clay and fossils. They pressed objects into clay slabs to create their own fossil-like sculptures.