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1st Pilgrim Faces
(16 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students imagined themselves as Pilgrims by drawing themselves and another family member in these traditional Pilgrim ha ...
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K Poppies
(44 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
The wearing of poppies in honor of America's war dead is traditionally done on Memorial Day, not Veterans Day, however w ...
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3rd Vasarely Spheres
(17 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
After talking about artist Victor Vasarely, third graders drew a circle and used curved lines to create the illusion tha ...
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2nd Thanksgiving Trees
(45 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students traced their hands from construction paper and wrote what they were thankful for. Next we used paper tearing t ...
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6th Embossed Initials
(45 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Sixth graders used aluminum/silver tooling foil to create an embossed initial. The art of repousse is also called emboss ...
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1st One Crazy Bus Ride
(17 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
First we drew our bus out and then cut and glued onto a blue paper. Next we used construction paper crayons to draw in ...
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7th B & W Letter Design
(16 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students were to create 9 different fonts of their first letter of their first name and use different textures to develo ...
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3rd Painted Fall Leaves
(41 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Third graders created their own leaf stencil by folding a piece of cardstock in half and sketching half a leaf on the fo ...
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2nd Positive/Negative Spooks
(42 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Second graders used half a sheet of dark paper and learned how to create a positive and negative image. With Halloween s ...
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6th Calaveras
(38 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Sixth graders learned about the cultural celebration in Mexico called "Day of the Dead." Celebrated on November 2 to rec ...
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K Overlapping Pumpkins
(44 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We cut and pasted our pumpkins and showed that some are closer than others by overlapping them. Next we used crayon to ...
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2nd Fall Leaves
(21 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students used oil pastels to create these lovely landscapes showing the beautiful colors of fall.
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K Primary Painting
(15 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We learned about the primary colors and we mixed them to get a lot more colors. Students were allowed to paint whatever ...
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Art 1 Fauvism
(11 art)
from Nov 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
The idea of painting with pure colors was fist suggested by Gustave Moreau, a controversial artist who taught at Paris's ...
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6th Printmaking
(40 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
This is our first with working with the printmaking process. We carved our design that was to remain white onto our fo ...
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5th Glued Pumpkin Painting
(26 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We drew our pumpkins with glue and allowed to dry. Next we used watercolor in a wet on wet technique and allowed the co ...
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1st Witches
(17 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
A directed drawing using basic shapes such as circles, semi-circles, triangles, trapezoids, ovals. Please comment on ou ...
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2nd Halloween Silhouettes
(46 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
They had fun with these spooky silhouettes. Please comment on your favorites!
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K Scary Cat
(38 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Look how fluffy and soft our "scary cats" are!
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1st Scarecrows
(32 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
This is a mixed media picture in which we first colored our scarecrows dark with crayons and then we used watercolor pai ...
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Adv. Art IP 2
(1 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students allowed to explore various media.
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Adv. Art IP 1
(6 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students are allowed to explore various media.
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7th Travel Poster
(18 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students were to pretend they worked for a travel agency and were assigned to make posters to draw tourists. Please com ...
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7th Coil Pots
(18 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We used air dry clay to make our coil pots. Students were to roll out clay in the size of a pencil and then were to cur ...
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2nd Crazy Skeletons
(46 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We talked about the different bones that help hold the body together then painted white tempera on black paper and cut o ...
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3rd Halloween Silhouettes
(19 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We had fun creating these spooky silhouettes! Please comment on your favorites
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5th Positive/Negative shapes
(15 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We cut some organic and some geometric shapes and flipped/rotated them
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K Monsters
(47 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We listened to a story of a monster who ran through the new school acting crazy, yet when the kindergarten teachers scol ...
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Adv. Art Notan
(4 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Notan is a Japanese term for displaying images in light and dark keeping it in a 2D plane on a 2D surface.
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Photography
(36 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We had three basic assignments for our photography unit: Elements, principles, and professional shots which include: Int ...
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3rd Gourd Faces
(40 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
A member of our community was so very kind to bring in gourds for our kids to use in a project. Please check out and co ...
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7th Line Design
(14 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Creating a design using a bouncing line starting in the center.
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6th Textured Hands
(41 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We discussed the difference between simulated texture and actual texture. In our hands we mutated them and gave them si ...
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K Textures
(18 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We learned about textures and how they would feel. Then we used texture plates to make our own.
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5th Pumpkin Textures
(12 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We had some spare time to have fun making these interesting pumpkin textures using texture plates.
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3rd Pumpkin Textures
(7 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We had some spare time to have fun making these interesting pumpkin textures using texture plates.
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4th Mona Lisa Parody
(41 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
A parody is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some oth ...
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K Line Landscape
(44 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students followed me in creating these fun line landscapes. We were amazed at making a picture using just lines! Pleas ...
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3rd Symmetrical Line Design
(34 art)
from Oct 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students folded their paper long side and drew with a black marker a design on one side. Next we used the windows and ...
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1st Bold Line Design
(28 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We emphasized color by making a pattern with 5 different colors across our paper. Then we created designs in black and ...
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4th Fur Balls
(42 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We practiced implied texture with our fur balls and added a touch of value in the eyes, hands and feet. Be sure to comm ...
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Adv. Art Mysterious Mood
(3 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students were to create a drawing from life with any media that has a mysterious mood.
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Art 1 Ricochet Line
(14 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We are creating a piece of optical art by using the elements of line and color to develop our project.
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7th Weaving
(17 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Weaving is one of the oldest forms of human creativity that is still made today. We discussed the terms of the loom and ...
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7th Visual Pun
(21 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
A Visual Pun is an piece of art that plays on words. The example I gave in class was a doghouse that was a dog. Other ...
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Art 1 Grid Drawings
(14 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Working with the grid students researched animals, people, landscape and architecture from Australia, New Zealand, and T ...
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7th Grid Drawings
(21 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We began the grid technique by learning how to make our grid to enlarge our photograph to the picture drawn. Next we us ...
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K Clowning Around
(43 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
By directed drawing we discussed facial anatomy of a clown and learned about coloring in the lines and making sure the p ...
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5th Colored Cubes
(28 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Review on primary and secondary colors. Plus we added in making a cube and adding designs using rulers.
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1st Starbursts
(32 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students talked about how real star bursts occur and then created their own.
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7th Warm/Cool Water Color
(36 art)
from Sep 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students discussed warm and cool colors and how to shade using water color paints. They were to alternate warm and cool ...
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Extra Art
(3 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Art work done outside of class projects. K-12
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2nd Peter Max Pop Art Flowers
(59 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Second graders looked at work by Peter Max, Specifically a print of flowers in a vase. We discussed how he used big bol ...
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4th Cursive Monsters
(42 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
It's always easiest to learn names by making a project out of the name itself. So we wrote our names in cursive and the ...
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1st Name Patterns
(32 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We talked about patterns and how we could use our name to make a pattern. Next we matched a color with a letter and it ...
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5th Contour Trees
(24 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
Students learned about what a contour line means and demonstrated how to use line to create a more 3 dimensional form. ...
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6th The Scream
(47 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We talked about Edvard Munch and his painting "The Scream" created in the 1800's. Students learned about the volcano er ...
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3rd Positive/Negative Shapes
(38 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We started out the year learning what is positive and what is negative but can you tell the difference? Please become a ...
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K Pumpkins In A Wagon
(41 art)
from Aug 2009, taught by Jennifer Leeper
We have started out this year with a great pumpkin. We've learned how to glue our wagons without too much glue and how ...
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