Nature Themed Pinch Pots

After a class nature walk, students incorporated natural elements such as leaves, grasses, flowers, bark, and branches into a design for their pinch pots.



Students were able to develop their pinch pot into the shape of their natural element, such as a flower, or carve it into the pot using relief sculpture. Students were also able to glaze on patterns or designs that replicated their nature theme... Here are some in progress works.

Beach Still Lives

Spring Art Show

May 12th, 2011 - we proudly displayed student artwork, choral and solo singers, drum line, brass and woodwinds. What a wonderful job students!!!

Art Show set up...

I have such wonderful helpers!

Beginning the Spring Art show...

Life skills students created coral and used spray dye to color beautiful fish, sea horses and sea turtles. We assembled these into a 4x6 foot Great Barrier Reef...

Finished Art 2 Relief Tiles

Students added paint to develop their image, and created an emphasis by making deliberate border color choices.

Finished Animal Drawings

Peaceable kingdoms

Students in Art 1 looked at Holy Mountain and Peaceable Kingdom and discussed a utopia of different peoples and cultures living in peace.



Students then completed a drawing in this style representing animals that would normally have a predator / prey relationship cohabiting in one habitat.

Art 2 Ceramic Tile Production

Students are completing relief sculpture in tiles and using paint to further develop images.

Cubism collages

After studying Picasso's Cubist movement students created collages from several views of a still life.

Life Skills Pattern Paintings

And the totems are done!

Abstract Figurative Sculptures

My Art 1 classes studied gesture drawing, figurative sculpture and abstracted figurative sculpture. Then they created their own by arranging pieces of wood into a figure representing one of the gestures they drew, and glued it together. Once dry, it was painted all one color for unity, so students designed and mixed a special color that best complimented their sculptures.

Frog Paintings

My life skills support class looked at frogs, frog coloring and habitat, and enlargement process for drawing a proportional frog. Then the fun part of painting them!

The Totem Animal Process

A wire frame - on its way to becoming a tiger head...









Paper mache - a frog...

















And a nearly completed paint job - a wolf!

Art 2 working on Totem Animals...

Made from paper towel tubes, wire, and eventually - paper mache...