Visual Arts

Elementary Art students painted huge flower paintings to decorate Hayden Hall for the spring season and the Spring Sing annual musical event. Students also worked with clay and made small textured bowls as well as other independent clay pieces of their choosing throughout the season. Once dried, students painted them using acrylic paints. Lower and Middle Elementary students made our solar system, including the sun and Earth's moon, out of paper mâché in their classroom with Harriet and Tevita. Once dry, they brought them into the art room and closely examined photographs of what each planet looked like so they could replicate the surface of their planets to look like the actual ones. They mixed paint colors and added texture to their planets, too! Upper Elementary students spent time working with oil pastels, creating beautiful feathers and landscape drawings. 

Middle School Art students have been drawing, painting, and working with clay. With the start of spring, students created watercolor flower paintings that were hung up on display brightening up our school in Hayden Hall and the Middle School Hallway. Students learned about different types of vortexes and how to draw them using special shading artist pencils and blending stumps. They shaded their drawing adding many light and dark values in order to make their vortexes look visually three-dimensional. They also worked with clay to make small textured bowls and had the opportunity to paint them.

High School Art students continued to enhance their drawing skills by working on many diverse sketchbook assignments, some realistic and some optical illusions. They were introduced to using special drawing pencils and blending stumps. They shaded many of their drawings using a wide range of lights and darks from the value scale. All students had an opportunity to make small textured bowls using different shaped molds and texture to press on to the surfaces. They painted their hand-built ceramic bowls. Some students explored the Procreate application on iPads and spent time drawing with the Apple pencil, shading foods such as a slice of refreshing watermelon or a delicious looking piece of cake.

(Please send in a paper grocery bag with your student on Monday, so they can bring home these awesome creations soon. We often run out of bags this time of year!)

– Camille Geraci, K-12 Visual Arts Teacher