Room 1

Ceramic Butterflies

Students experimented with ceramic processes and practiced slipping and scoring to adhere slabs and coils together. The final butterflies were painted with acrylic.

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Ceramic Flowers

Students experimented with ceramic processes and practiced slipping and scoring to adhere slabs and coils together. The final flowers were painted with acrylic.

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Collaborative Tile Prints

Room 1 learned about repetition and patterns and drew their own patterns onto printmaking foam in the shape of a cross or star. We learned about making block prints and printed them onto various colors of construction paper. Then each print was added to a collaborative class piece.

Negative Space Shapes

Room 1 looked at a variety of geometric shapes and made stencils from those shapes. Then they chose a composition on black construction paper and made rubbings using chalk pastels.

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Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

In preparation for a field trip to the “Beyond Van Gogh” exhibit in Boston, we studied the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, starting with Sunflowers (1888). We drew our own sunflowers step-by-step. Students then looked at the clear brushstrokes in his paintings and practiced using brushstrokes in that style.

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Van Gogh’s Wheatfield with Crows

The next painting we looked at by Van Gogh was Wheatfield With Crows (1890). We drew the field and moon step-by-step and then continued to practice using brushstrokes to fill in color.

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