Always A Work In Progress

As DPS artists finish up their last projects (and before we move on to the projects pictured in the post below), I wanted to post pictures of how our last projects have been finishing up. I think it is always very useful to photograph and document the process of creating artwork.

First grade artists enjoyed learning about urban verse suburban areas, as well as the artist James Rizzi and his "silly skyscrapers". At the end of our James Rizzi project we discussed museums, and completed a "museum walk" to view all of our classmates' artwork. As students walked around the "museum" they had a museum ticket in their hand. The students were required to give someone another skyscraper that was not their own sky their museum ticket, and explain why they thought that particular skyscraper was given a ticket. The museum walk was not only a chance for students to practice an "art talk", but it was also a chance for students to show each other a small act of kindness. :)

I have to say the kindergarten owls turned out to be adorable and eye catching. Students learned about owls (notice our owls are hanging out in a night sky with stars because we learned about animals that are nocturnal), trees, texture, painting an even background, and collage work with this project (whew!). I even had a kindergarten teacher tell me that she was just discussing a particular book's illustration with her kiddos that happened to be all ripped paper illustrations. What a perfect connection!

Notice the owl on the very end on the left hand side-one of my favorites!!! This student wanted his owl to look as if it was taking off! Awesome! :)

Hard at work!

This project really took some patience on the kiddos' end, but they are so proud of their results!!