Deer Canyon Elementary
San Diego, California
Welcome to the Deer Canyon Art Gallery on Artsonia.
The photos posted here are to let you see the artwork before it comes home in June. All of the artwork posted will be kept in the students' art portfolios until the end of the year so there is plenty of variety for the Deer Canyon Art Show and the County Fair.
The children love to have comments posted-be sure to sign your comment with your first name or mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, etc.
Thank you for your continued support of the Deer Canyon Foundation and our PTA which provides funding for our program. The money generated through Artsonia will help purchase art supplies for the school.
  
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Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
 
Ms. Armacost: quilling (27 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Leesa Fallah
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Apr 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Part 1. We discussed what a family portrait is, different samples of family portrait were shown. Cut potato were covered ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Slideshow and short video were shown on Laurel Burch's extraordinary life. http://prezi.com/xeg0jpihc3sj/laurel-burch-le ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Melissa Harris
Students learned how to make their own paper from recycled materials (dryer lint, newspaper, old homework, egg cartons, ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Rebecca Andrusiak
A 12"x18" white paper was fold lengthwise. A selection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars and trucks were put on the studen ...
   
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Apr 2013, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students drew a part of a creature and passed their paper to a classmate for them to draw another part. They passed the ...
   
 
Apr 2013, taught by Rayleen Montesi
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Apr 2013, taught by Rayleen Montesi
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Mar 2013, taught by Gina Mell
Celtic Knots
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Melissa Harris
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Mar 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
It was a directed drawing lesson, so students had to follow each step. Although, I am not a big fun of directed drawing, ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
This art project is based on the Aztec sun stone and was a printmaking lesson. We used brown paper bag for the circle. S ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Directed Drawing lesson commemorating Dr. Zeus's 109th birthday. The kids had fun drawing Cat in the Hat! Many of the ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Rebecca Andrusiak
Directed drawing lesson: Students followed directions, drawing step by step two cats and a dog on three separate paper. ...
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students looked at work by artist Wayne Thiebaud and created these prints.
   
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Mar 2013, taught by Melissa Harris
Students learned how to create volume and dimension to their drawings by creating shadows with the black and light chalk ...
   
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Ms. Dye's Shape to Line (24 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Erin Chauvapun
Students recreate a still life starting with torn shapes and finishing with contour line.
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Leesa Fallah
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Ms. Simms Caravels (24 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students viewed a Powerpoint about the Caravel. Caravels were used by the Portuguese and Spanish during the 16th and 17t ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students were given a line drawing of MLK to cut out. They glued the white pieces onto the black paper alternating them ...
   
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Feb 2013, taught by Melissa Harris
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Feb 2013, taught by Rayleen Montesi
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Jan 2013, taught by Leesa Fallah
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Jan 2013
Drawing: Visual Memory Students study an art print for as long as they wish and then recreate it from memory using colo ...
   
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Ms. Dye's Claude Monet (22 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Erin Chauvapun
Students imitate Monet's style using a wet brush dipped in dry powered tempra
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Melissa Harris
Students were introduced to the history of samplers and markers and tried their hand at cross stitching a letter.
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Rebecca Andrusiak
While students practiced using the paints and learned to mix colors, they created their own interpretation of a painting ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Melissa Harris
Students learned about shading and creating deminsion in their artwork. We used a common picture of birch trees, but ad ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Students continued working on the last piece of the four seasons paining. We used the same method, we dabbed our one fin ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Students were instructed to paint a tree blooming with pink, red, white blossoms. The tree was placed on a hilltop cover ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Students looked at samples, then created their own winter picture on blue construction paper by dabbing tempera paint on ...
   
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Jan 2013, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Students created fall pictures by fingerpainting. A ghost, a fence, few pumpkins, grass should appear on every pictures ...
   
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Ms. Simms Colonial Signs (31 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students learned about the types of merchants that would have been in a colony. They created these signs based on their ...
   
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Dec 2012
Students create a spooky sky using wet-into-wet techniques. THey then create a Halloween picture.
   
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Dec 2012
Students select a place for a group of people to be and design the people and the background with appropriate details.
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Leesa Fallah
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Dec 2012, taught by Melissa Harris
Students learn about limner style of painting. The limner was an untrained, generally anonymous artists active in the E ...
   
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Dec 2012, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Students were asked to draw a detailed closeup poinsettia picture with chalk and oil pastel on black construction paper. ...
   
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Richards/Horne Line Art (29 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Rayleen Montesi
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Dec 2012, taught by Rayleen Montesi
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Dec 2012, taught by Melissa Harris
The students reviewed frontal and profile portraits. They were to design a snowman (or winter character) using the portr ...
   
 
Dec 2012, taught by Rayleen Montesi
Crayon with watercolor overlay
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Students were provided with reference material: picture books, slide shows and images on different types of owl. Owl's b ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Rebecca Andrusiak
Students were asked to select one out of different textured fabric pieces and create either a realistic animal or a mons ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Charina Schmitigal and Jun Yin
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Ms. Armacost: Mona Lisa (29 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Leesa Fallah
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Nov 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students created tints and shades using a color of their choice. When the painting was complete, they cut out a silhouet ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
I found this exiting exhibit on Artsonia - thank you very much Angelique Sow, Wiley Middle School (University Heights, O ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Melissa Harris
Students learn about Japanese Haiku poetry. Using oil pastels, they created a fall leaf and then added a haiku poem to ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Another amazing Ms. Welling lesson from Lee's Summit Elementary School! I can't thank you enough for publishing your art ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
A big hank you to Ms. Welling for her printmaking lesson of Cedar Creek Elementary - Lee's Summit, Missouri!!! It was a ...
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students created these portraits of explorers to go along with their explorer research project.
   
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Nov 2012, taught by N/A
Students created these masks as a visual aide for their Native American Legends projects.
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students were introduced to the history of samplers and markers and tried their hand at cross stitching a letter.
   
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Nov 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Using a bottle lid and tempera paint, students printed apple shapes then added stems, highlights and shadow with oil cra ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Melissa Harris
Students learn about a pictorial map and how a cartographer may have made their map in the early exploration years.
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Rebecca Andrusiak
Students learned how to create different geometric shapes by folding and cutting construction paper. They used the same ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Leesa Fallah
Caravels: Ships used by European explorers.
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Melissa Harris
Students create a line drawing of a pumpkin or jack 'o lantern. Using a variety of line patterns they fill the pumpkin ...
   
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Ms. Simms Wampum (31 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students looked at a PowerPoint about Native American wampum belts. Using looms and plastic beads, the students created ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students looked at pictures of dragons and created these art pieces using torn and cut tissue paper. When finished, they ...
   
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Oct 2012, taught by Adel Olahne-Szabo
Line lesson- Students learned about many different kinds of lines. (thick, thin, straight, curved, jagged, curly. etc. W ...
   
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Sep 2012, taught by Alyssa Navapanich
Students learned about the work of 19th century artist George Catlin. They looked at examples of his work and then creat ...
   
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Non-Exhibit Artwork (4 artworks)
Oct 2012
   
Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
Artwork Exhibits - 2 years ago (July 2010 - June 2011)
Artwork Exhibits - 3 years ago (July 2009 - June 2010)
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for this school year ... state nation
1892 artworks #12 #778
358 fanclub members #13 #735
100 comments #11 #742
52 artist statements #13 #607
  overall rank #10 #674
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Announcements
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School Awards & Honors
  2011-2012 Leadership Award
Ranked #6 in California (#459 in the nation) for overall participation among all schools
  2011-2012 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #10 in California (#553 in the nation) for fan club signups among all schools
  2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #3 in California (#258 in the nation) for artist statements collected among all schools
  2011-2012 Leadership Award
Ranked #6 in California (#486 in the nation) for overall participation among elementary schools
  2011-2012 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #9 in California (#549 in the nation) for art published among elementary schools
view all awards (29 awards in all)
 
Student Hall of Fame
Shown are the students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
 Lauren4878
awarded on 1/8/2013
 Sofia844
awarded on 11/15/2012
 Eldin13
awarded on 3/7/2013
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Recent visitor comments ...
What kind of flowers did you put into your paper Lauren? It is very cool piece of art....was it squishy making it? Love you nana -- nana
left for Lauren4878
Wow, what a beautiful star to make from paper...It looks so fluffy..I can't wait to see how you use it in your next project. Good job. Love you. -- Brenda
left for Lauren4878
That looks like a big white soft cookie to me.....good enough to bite into. A star cookie. Recycled paper...way to go Lauren. -- BJ Spanky
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Recent artist statements ...
Luna the turfrogorius. Habitat-jungle island. Enemy-dog. Hobby-flying.. Diet-berries, coconut
written by Karen1225
Lovely bunny-lives in the skies.
written by Ethan3769
Alien monster lives in space with aliens.
written by Sara2770
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