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School Gallery
Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
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May 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Students chose three colors they were drawn to for our stained glass effect paintings. We've learned so much about eleme ...
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Colored Lines
(12 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Abbi gave us the idea for these paintings when she created her color blocking wide stripes - later we saw paintings of c ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Math concepts through this art project: counting, shapes, symmetry, graphing, sorting, adding. Bam!
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Oh how we have grown!
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Our Cool CATS
(21 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Directed drawing using various shapes to create some really cool cats!
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
More shapes and lines!
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Students had a choice of what animal they wanted to learn to draw. We'll make these colorful at another time! We are lea ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned about the frog life cycle and drew a frog about to catch a bug in this directed drawing lesson.
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Apr 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Oil pastels and water color eggs = spring! Love the variety!
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Rosie the Hen
(19 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
We are learning about farm animals as part of our animal unit. What farm animals do we know and what do they look like? ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
Valentine's Day....love...friendship....and a little paint. Need I say more?
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Feb 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned about Vincent Van Gogh, looked at his paintings, and studied his sunflower paintings, then we made our own co ...
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Abe Lincoln
(18 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
After reading about Honest Abe's childhood and life, we did a directed drawing of his face.
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Feb 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
It was fun to learn about our first president's life, and then draw his portrait!
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Mr./Ms. Sun
(22 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
We painted the winter sun using oil pastels and watercolors. We learned how to make a border, and we used different line ...
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Rainbow Heart
(21 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Liza Mathews
We used our fine motor skills in this paper cutting rainbow heart.
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Jan 2013, taught by Misty Nielsen
We learned about penguins and their habitats and then had fun making our own with paper.Aren't they adorable?
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Picasso Faces
(40 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We looked at some of Picasso's faces and drew our own in his style.
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Winter Scene
(20 artworks)
Dec 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned some new vocabulary - foreground and background - and we learned how size and placement can affect if somethi ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We read this book as part of our Native American studies - then used our new watercolor skills to try to paint the most ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We read a book about a family where the mother celebrates Hanukkah and the father celebrates Christmas - a very sweet st ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
Two tree lessons here:
Learning to use a stencil to make our leaf book covers - the background was from a texture finge ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
Easel paintings - a simple evergreen tree.
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Nov 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
Using the same O'Keefe flowers we drew on day 1, we learned about warm and cool colors and chose a palette for our flowe ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We used our O'Keefe flowers and created another version using liquid watercolors - yummy!
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Nov 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
The leaves are so beautiful right now! We are studying how different leaves are shaped, and making observations about le ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned about Georgia O'Keefe today. Then we drew large scale flowers.
"I in a way, nobody sees a flower - really - ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We visited the Nicasio Pumpkin Farm and brought home a variety of pumpkins. Back in the classroom, children chose pumpki ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
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Oct 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned about Pablo Picasso and how he liked to make art that looked different than anyone else had ever made. We lea ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned that we can paint a black cat with just a few shapes - an oval, a circle, 2 triangles, and a curvy line for a ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Emily McFarland
In centers we discovered that we can create a painting without a brush. We used marbles dipped in paint and rolled them ...
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Haunted House
(47 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Dolly Behrens
This was a directed drawing done at Centers - kids followed directions to make different kinds of lines which resulted i ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
Free choice painting at the Easel! Paint on, people! We explore with color, size, shape, design, and more.
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Sep 2012, taught by Ms KiKi
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Sep 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
Some of us like to collaborate on our paintings! Some are abstract, some are realistic - they are all super creative!
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Sep 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We are introducing a math topic, symmetry, through art in our simple black on white striking symmetry prints! We will ch ...
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Spiral Snails
(20 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
As part of learning about the element of line in art, we practiced drawing spirals - then we talked about animals we cou ...
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Initial Art
(19 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
As part of learning about our names, we learned about our initials and made these initial paintings. We used our new tem ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We learned that our names are comprised of letters, and that letters are made up of different kinds of lines - big and l ...
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Rainbow Fish
(22 artworks)
Sep 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We read the book RAINBOW FISH by Marcus Pfister. We discussed what the main character, Rainbow Fish, learned by sharing ...
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Aug 2012, taught by Liza Mathews
We love to paint! The easel is open every day and encourages open, creative expression....paint on, kids!
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Sep 2012
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Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012)
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grades: |
all | elem | mid | high |
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961 artworks |
#32 |
#1535 |
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41 fanclub members |
#68 |
#2749 |
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23 comments |
#40 |
#1859 |
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56 artist statements |
#12 |
#572 |
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#33 |
#1664 |
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961 artworks |
#23 |
#1227 |
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41 fanclub members |
#50 |
#2239 |
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23 comments |
#29 |
#1576 |
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56 artist statements |
#6 |
#422 |
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#27 |
#1389 |
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#76 |
#1706 |
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#953 |
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School Awards & Honors
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2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #9 in California (#450 in the nation) for artist statements collected among all schools
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2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #6 in California (#333 in the nation) for artist statements collected among elementary schools
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Student Hall of Fame
Shown are the students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.
Recent visitor comments ...
| I think Rosie is the cutest hen I have ever seen. Nana
-- Nanaleft for Carsten41 | | Hi Kaden, We really love all your art work but this one is a favorite. It sure looks like you are really having fun with art. Love, Pop Pop and Ray Ray
-- Joeleft for Kaden1530 | | Kaden, I love this sunflower!
-- Momleft for Kaden1530 |
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Recent artist statements ...
| I like my sun. It's nice. I like the colors.written by Miles1041 | | Cool face! I like that he's funny.written by Miles1041 | | I like that it's cool. I like it. It was kind of hard. The hardest part was making the body shape. The easiest part was drawing the tail feathers.written by Miles1041 |
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