2nd Grade Impressionist Flowers

Inspired by Vincent van Gogh's renowned sunflower paintings, the second grade students created these stunning drawings using chalk pastels.

5th Grade Stained Glass Windows

Colorful Kindergarten Birds

The kindergarten students honed in on their drawing and coloring skills to create these bright birds. After reading Susan Meddaugh's "Tree of Birds," a colorful book about friendship, community and our feathered friends, the class talked about characteristics that are unique to birds and together we broke these down into different shapes and drew the outlines. They also learned how to draw a background by applying a horizon line and proportionally sized objects. The students then used oil pastels to fill in their creatures, discovering how to mix and overlap colors to create their own, unique palette.

2nd Grade City Scapes

2nd grade students became familiar with collage and watercolor techniques by creating a mixed media image of a city silhouette at sunset. The class began by making comparisons between Ellsworth Kelley's "Spectrum" and the sky at sunset, talking about analogous and transition colors. The students then collaborated with partners and applied problem solving to successfully use one line to cut a large sheet of black paper into two cityscape silhouettes. They created their backgrounds using wet-on-wet watercolor techniques and salt application, using analogous colors to create a scale reminiscent of Kelley's work. Lastly, they added fine details to their cities and skies using metallic acrylic paint.