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May 2013, taught by A Dean
Fourth graders learned about radial symmetry in art and in nature. They began by creating a triangular composition. Th ...
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May 2013, taught by A Dean
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Apr 2013, taught by A Dean
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Apr 2013, taught by A Dean
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Systems 2013
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Feb 2013, taught by A Dean
8th grade advanced art students will create a One-man show based around a chosen "system". Each student will create a s ...
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Feb 2013, taught by A Dean
Students have been learning about Contemporary Artists each week. We learned that Contemporary Artists often base their ...
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Feb 2013, taught by A Dean
These drawings are a sampling of work done by 6th graders in General Art.
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Feb 2013, taught by A Dean
Students learned 12 different watercolor techniques. Then, they chose a reference photo of a landscape, and they create ...
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Feb 2013, taught by A Dean
Students learned about One Point Perspective, a drawing technique developed during the Renaissance. We looked at artwor ...
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Feb 2013, taught by A Dean
Students are learning to draw, using activities from the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. ...
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Jan 2013, taught by A Dean
First graders learned about color field painter, Mark Rothko. We looked at his paintings for a long time, and saw that ...
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Jan 2013, taught by A Dean
First graders learned about weaving. We looked at several different types of weavings from around the world. We talked ...
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Dec 2012, taught by A Dean
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Dec 2012, taught by A Dean
Students learned about artist, Georgia O'Keeffe. We looked at many of her paintings of bones and flowers, and discussed ...
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Dec 2012, taught by A Dean
Students learned about Phillip Simmons, an important African American blacksmith, who made beautiful gates. Students wi ...
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Dec 2012, taught by A Dean
Second grade learned about Vincent Van Gogh. We looked at many of his landscapes and talked about how he used short bru ...
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Visual Diaries
(10 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by A Dean
Students created a series of 9 images, based on an event or aspect of their life.
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Nov 2012, taught by A Dean
6th graders used gimp to posterize their portraits. Then, they made a value scale using paint chips. They used acrylic ...
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Nov 2012, taught by A Dean
First graders have been talking about mood and color. We learned that some researchers believed that the famous artist, ...
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Nov 2012, taught by A Dean
6th graders discussed street art. We talked about how money impacts art, and who really has access to public space. We ...
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Nov 2012, taught by A Dean
Students learned about the Impressionists - a group of painters that tried to capture an impression of the light in natu ...
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Oct 2012, taught by A Dean
First graders learned about Pointillist painter, George Seurat. We looked at his famous painting, Sunday Afternoon in t ...
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Oct 2012, taught by A Dean
6th graders used black and white charcoal on grey paper to capture shadows and highlights in these beautiful figure draw ...
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Oct 2012, taught by A Dean
Students learned about facial proportions. They looked into a mirror and drew themselves.
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Oct 2012, taught by A Dean
Sixth graders have been learning about shading and composition. They went around the school, and using a viewfinder, fo ...
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Solar Prints
(39 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by A Dean
First and second graders learned about solar prints and cyanotypes. First graders have been learning about different ty ...
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Oct 2012, taught by A Dean
First graders have been learning about printmaking. We looked at examples of different types of prints - Linoleum, wood ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
After practicing zentangle patterns, and making up some of their own, students incorporated tangle patterns into these c ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
Third through fifth graders are learning about patterns. We copied some patterns from tanglepatterns.com, and students ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
6th graders are learning to see value. They looked closely at some white, oversize chess pieces against a black backgro ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
Second graders learned about mosaics. We looked at examples from ancient Rome, as well as contemporary examples. We le ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
Students used what we learned about contour lines and negative spaces to create these beautiful still life drawings from ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
Students learned about the differences between lines and shapes. They tried to make the longest line possible, by wrapi ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
We discussed cliche imagery, and talked about how some contemporary artists are playing around with cliche imagery, addi ...
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Sep 2012, taught by A Dean
Students have been doing excersizes based on the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. In this activity, studen ...
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