Freedom Elementary's Art Gallery

Saturday, October 17, 2015

The Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet

This is a project I did with 4th grade for halloween, with Carl Sandburg's poem in mind.

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Best in Show (for that age category)

This owl was the second project for 4th grade last year. It was an all around success but there were a few that really stood out and this was one of them. The district office asked for some student work to hang, so this hung there until June when I retrieved it to put in the Art Center exhibit. I'm so glad I did because it won best in show and they used it in their poster and brochures. What an honor to have work "published" at such an early age. Way to go Jadeyn!

Final Art Exhibit of 2015 - Art Center Manatee

As you can see we have some very talented students who work really hard. I want to thank them for letting me hold on to their artwork for such a long time. The big show of the year didn't occur until school was over and some of the artworks were the first project of the year. I hope the having a framed picture will make up for the delay.:)

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Astronauts on the Moon

Second grade made space people on the moon collages. (I got the idea from the Painted Paper blog.) First we sponge painted the moon with different shades of gray and sprayed on the stars with watered down white tempera. Then we made the space suits by rounding off squares and rectangles. After pasting those on we embellished the suits with sequins and metallic paper. On the third day, we made the flags and the rockets. Zoom! We read about the phases of the moon, and learned the order of the planets and read about space suits before making this project.