Drum Rollll...Diversity

While learning how to overlap, 7th and 8th graders made some very "Handsome Art" embracing Diversity.
Artwork by Lecharles, Kevin, Darrion, Kaelah, Kyana
Shontrell, Linda and Shaquanna related Diversity to their own friendship.



Also in celebration of Black History Month, Kindergarten practiced drawing straight lines and geometric shapes while designing their African drum.
Artwork by Jalaya
Artwork by Darrion
Artwork by Caris
Artwork by Myesha

Cityscape vs. Landscape

Can you point out which of the art below is a landscape or a cityscape? What are the difference you notice between the 3/4 graders CITYscapes and LANDscapes?
Artwork by Jeremiah
Artwork by Michah

Artwork by CodyArtwork by Timothy

Artwork by Erin

Cityscape Up Close

Today the whole school went on a trip downtown! Here were the cityscape art the primary classes did earlier in the school year. They used chalk pastels and smeared over a stencil to create the smoky look.

What's your "Point of View"

3rd and 4th graders made snowmen from two points of view, a bird's and a worm's. "Bird's point-of-view" is what a snowman might look from above. "Worm's point of view" is what a snowman might look from the ground below looking up.

If you click on the image of the bulletin board below, you can see examples of a city from the two different point's of view. Can you think of what "Point-of-view" means when you are in Writing class? What does is mean when something is written in 1st person "point-of-view" compared to 2nd or 3rd person "point-of-view"??

Artwork by Daniel, Xavier and ____
Artwork by Michael and John
Artwork by Devona
Artwork by Malik B

Still Lifes of the Season

The 3rd and the 4th graders practiced their observation skills while drawing seasonal objects. We learned that a "still life" is when an artist draws something that stays STILL. Long ago, the most common still life was fruit and flowers which can be seen as alive/ "life". Today, it refers to anything an artist draws by OBSERVING!

(More artwork to be posted) Erin and Maximus chose to label their drawings which I thought was an nontraditional, but cool technique.

Artwork by Maximus

Artwork by Erin

Art Club celebrates our Schmid Family

Art Club decorated the letter of "Schmid Family" simple by using a paintbrush to lay down glue and layering different colors of tissue squares.
We used cool colors for "Schmid" and warmer colors for "Family".
It was a team effort between all Art Club members, but Tymia contributed the most work. Thank you Tymia.

Negative Space Design, by Positive Scholars

7th and 8th graders' study of positive and negative space:

Names to be posted later. (Please always write your name clearly on the bottom right-hand side of all your artwork to make it easier for me to tag artwork to the artists. Thank you)

Artwork by ____ and Linda. Linda's little running man is great!


I love the Mac Apple! Very clever.