Leading Edge Academy
Queen Creek, Arizona
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
Rodrigue's Blue Dog (30 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist George Rodrigue and replicated his dog but in their interpretation.
   
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Symmetrical Butterflies (34 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned how to make a symmetrical butterfly by folding the paper in half and rubbing the image to produce a "gh ...
   
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Hundertwasser's Flowers (61 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
The students were inspired by the artist Hundertwasser. He is famous for loving nature and using lots of patterns and l ...
   
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Initial Design (11 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students were able to make in an interesting composition using their first initial. Students worked on their value by u ...
   
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Cave Drawings (37 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned the history of cave drawings. Students learned about how different colors were made and used. Student ...
   
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Hot and Cold Weavings (13 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about hot and cold colors. The learned basic weaving methods and terminology.
   
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Kandinsky Compositions (37 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Wasilly Kandinsky and painted in his abstract expressionist style.
   
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Circular Weaving (31 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned how to weave in a circular pattern. Students made a key for their weavings and assigned colors to spec ...
   
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Van Gogh Still Life (40 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Van Gogh. They were able to copy his flower still life. We discussed mixing colors an ...
   
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Pinch Pot Fish (33 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students made basic pinch pots and transformed them to look like fish. They were painted in warm colors and the backgro ...
   
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Value Still Life Study (14 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about Cezanne and the value scale. Students used tracing paper to copy a master in colored pencils. L ...
   
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Nighttime City (18 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students re-created a nighttime scene using depth and a variety of media.
   
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Picasso Portrait (39 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Pablo Picasso. We discussed textures and unrealistic colors. Students were able to ma ...
   
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Concentric Hearts (31 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about hot and cold colors while making a concentric heart design. To finish off the piece, students us ...
   
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Zentangle Names (15 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about positive and negative space. Students then used their name as negative space and filled in the p ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about tints and shades while painting a concentric heart.
   
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Cold Hands, Warm Heart (91 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about cold and hot colors. Lesson plan was inspired by artsonia.
   
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Pollock Hearts (12 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Jackson Pollock and abstract painting. They were able to imitate his style of drip pai ...
   
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Snowman Portraits (75 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned what a portrait is. They learned to draw a snowman close up. Lesson was borrowed from Deep Space Spark ...
   
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Abstract Contours (19 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned to shade in to create volume for each section.
   
 
Aerial Snowman (182 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about bird's eye point of view in relation to making their snowman. Students also used a was resist te ...
   
 
Nov 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about hot and cold colors and used templates for the leaf to make negative shapes.
   
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Wild Things (41 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students re-created their own wild thing that was inspired by the story. Students used a variety of media and practiced ...
   
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Mixed Media Owls (74 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
The students learned how to make a piece of art using different art medias. The students were able to identify them as ...
   
 
Nighttime Landscape (71 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about perspective and placed themselves on the forest floor looking up at the nighttime sky. They lear ...
   
 
Pumpkin Portraits (30 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students made portraits of pumpkins using texture and mixed media.
   
 
Sock Monkey Portraits (41 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about portraits. They were read the story "Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood", and were then "inspired" to ...
   
 
Modigliani Portraits (88 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Amadeo Modigliani. The students learned about his uniques style and incorporated this ...
   
 
Optical Art (8 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned to draw striped fabric so that it would look undulated.
   
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Rousseau's Monkeys (43 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Henri Rousseau. We read the book titled, "A Jungle Expedition." They used natural co ...
   
 
Vacation License Plates (32 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students made a license plate from their summer vacation. Students learned about overlapping and landscapes.
   
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Kandinsky Circles (34 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students copied Kandinsky's style and replicated his abstract circles.
   
 
Wasilly Hands (42 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students learned about the artist Wasily Kandinsky and painted their hands in the abstract style.
   
 
Radial Name (20 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Amy Floyd
Students were able to repeat their name as a design to make a radial picture.
   
 
Non-Exhibit Artwork (2 artworks)
May 2013
   
Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
Artwork Exhibits - 4 years ago (July 2008 - June 2009)
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for this school year ... state nation
1393 artworks #21 #1107
257 fanclub members #19 #1109
84 comments #14 #873
13 artist statements #31 #1264
  overall rank #15 #872
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School Awards & Honors
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #10 in Arizona (#610 in the nation) for comments posted among all schools
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #8 in Arizona (#609 in the nation) for comments posted among elementary schools
  2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #10 in Arizona (#353 in the nation) for comments posted among middle schools
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Student Hall of Fame
Shown are the students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Cassidy1755
awarded on 1/26/2013
 Jakob774
awarded on 2/11/2013
 Kaleb2104
awarded on 1/9/2013
view all awards (177 students in all)
 
Recent visitor comments ...
Great job Jakob! Very creative son. -- Zach
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Dear Miya, I just love the influence of Hundertwasser's flowers, don't you?? You have done a spectacular, creative and wondrful job making this artwork. Your background looks like a beautiful Arizona sunset! Loving you always, Granny -- Granny
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Very Awesome Kaleb. Great detail in your work. I love it son! -- Zach
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Recent artist statements ...
This one was made for a special person.
written by Arianna1175
It is about wanting to be like a wise old owl.
written by Arianna1175
It looks really weird...
written by Darryn16
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