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Wax and Paint
(3 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders drew trees with wax (Gulfwax), bearing down really firmly. They watercolored on top. When that was dry, th ...
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th graders created wonderful cities, using 2 point perspective.
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders made crazy shapes--and they came right off the page!
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders used the repousse' technique to create onion domes and other Russian type architecture foil pictures.
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders began and ended their year with Georgia O'Keeffe's images. This time they made mountains with glue on black ...
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders used paper straws to creat unity and emphasis in a 3-D sculpture. Adding a tiny wire figure really made the ...
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders used my special watercolor paper--with the paint at their finger tips!
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade girls studied Degas' dancers. They made pastel paintings of glorious dancers.
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May 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders love the wonderful colors Franz Marc's horse paintings have. They used meltable oil pastels to make their o ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders looked at the early (age 3!) paintings of Wang Yani. They practiced brush techniques, referred to some exam ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders studied Edward Hopper's paintings of lighthouses on Cape Cod. Their compositions were experiments in mixing ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade boys created all kinds of cars out of clay.
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders studied Edward Hicks' work. They created their own peaceable kingdoms with tempera paint.
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Tree Prints
(25 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders gouged and printed some fantastic trees!
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders created sports figure showing movement or career people.
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Clay Horses
(18 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders made clay horses, remembering Franz Marc's Blue Horses from last year.
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Clay Cottages
(14 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade girls created cottages using slab construction methods.
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders made a weaving. Then the fun began...
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Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders worked so hard drawing these portraits. They made a grid and enlarged the faces. Then they shaded with ebo ...
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Animal Bowls
(24 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders created clever little bowls in clay.
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Cute/Ugly Jars
(33 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd grade went to the Birmingham Museum of Art with their pals from Pickens County. They saw some great 'ugly' jars. An ...
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Blue (?) Dog
(21 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th graders enjoyed looking at G. Rodrigues' Blue Dog series. They invented their own environments using soluble oil pa ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders created these birds on a wire--multi media.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade boys looked at Tom Friedman's sculpture. Then they created 'The Band'.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders drew large fish with glue. They added chalk pastels for beautiful blended pictures.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade girls created these beautiful paintings without using brushes.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders love to snorkel--look at all the fish.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders studied William H. Johnson's cityscapes. They used payons to create their own cities.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders designed a lizard in its environment...some of them are really chameleons!
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders learned to build sculptures with paper--and no glue or staples.
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Mar 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th graders enjoyed this easy project of high contrast portrait/sharpie/snowflake stencils.
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
William H. Johnson painted cool cities. 3rd graders did too! They used payons.
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders painted underwater!
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th graders drew themselves. They put glue on their drawn lines. They inked and printed.
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders created repeating patterns to form the frame for their foam faces. Fun!
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Winter Trees
(33 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders created very interesting landscapes with silhouetted trees on a magazine collage.
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th graders made crayon rubbings of their glue lined printing plates. They glued strips down to elongate the face.
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Animal Prints
(15 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders printed linoleum blocks.
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Designer Birds
(30 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders studied John J. Audubon. They then created their own birds in their unique environments.
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20 point Star
(29 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders had fun creating a 20 Point star when they had a sub. Color pencils finished it off.
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders "LOVE" Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture. They brainstormed a 4-5 letter word to express their hopes for the ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders looked at Cezanne's still life paintings. They cut out their apples and used them as templates. Veryyy nic ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade boys looked at Alexander Calder's wire faces. Amazing! They created two of their own. Amazing!
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Jan 2013, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders used a template they made, making layers of stars. Shading pastels is fun--and messy!
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Outer Space
(24 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders spattered, sloppy painted, shaded: lost in space!
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Clay Friends
(17 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders created two clay figures, connected by friendship?
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Dec 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade boys rolled clay slabs first and then made cool masks.
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Rattleheads
(31 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders made pinchpots, filled them with newspaper/clay bits, and created rattleheads. We can make music!
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Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders love clay! They made dragons and other mythological creatures...and real stuff like unicorns :)
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Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade boys worked BIG--30"x21". They looked at Jim Dine's tool drawings, they looked at our toolbox, they drew larg ...
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Clay Castles
(24 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders learned slab construction..and castle building. Nice..
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Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders made coiled pots for their clay project. They can eat their ice cream out of them!
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Face Collages
(32 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders made these really cool faces by collaging layers of color paper.
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Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade girls employed their culinary? skills and created yummy dishes of food (with clay).
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Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders tried to 'pop' their hands off the page using cross contour.
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Contour Faces
(24 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders did a contour drawing of themselves. They used color pencils to finish it.
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Nov 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders drew their thoughts about the Christmas story.
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Old Master??
(23 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders looked around the art room and picked an Old Master painting to insert themselves into: Mona Lisa, Whistler ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
Fall is here! 7th graders traced leaves and then used oil pastels to make them POP.
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Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders studied artwork by Robert and Sonia Delaunay. They used oil pastels and black tempera.
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Klimt Trees
(32 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders looked at Gustav Klimt's beautiful paintings. They then created their own oil pastel trees--very sinuous, v ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
7th grade girls really did it this time! They constructed these beautiful letters using quilling.
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Color Spheres
(18 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders worked on their color shading skills...and then added their poetic thoughts to finish.
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Oct 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders looked at pictures of all kinds of African masks. We talked about uses of the masks. They created these aw ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders used construction paper crayons to create a night city (a la Paul Klee).
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Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
6th graders contour-drew each other, overlapping, changing colors. The let the design game begin...
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Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
7th graders did these awesome blobs of op art. They were easy but look complicated! Shading was very important to creat ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders begin their year learning to shade to create the illusion of 3-D. After making a value scale to refer to, t ...
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Face or Vase??
(24 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
5th graders drew a profile, flipped it, drew it again/cut and paste/and designed very colorful vases. What an optical i ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
3rd graders studied Georgia O'Keeffe and her larger than life flowers. They drew huge flowers with crayon and then wate ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
4th graders learned about Op Art, looking at work by Bridget Riley. They created their own op art using the element of ...
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Aug 2012, taught by Robin Jackson
8th graders started the year by raiding the artroom...and creating some hilarious temporary collages.
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