Farm Animal Rights

My classes are looking at factory farming and using their artistry to bring awareness to their causes and petition the White House for change...here we are in the early phases of design.

Crayon Resist Birds

My life skills support class had a wonderful time reviewing scale and placement, as well as layered colors and foreground / background while drawing colorful birds and painting the sky blue.

Illuminations Completed

Many students took this opportunity to showcase their own writing, and some selected work from lyrics or poems they felt were relevant or related to. It was challenging to learn the craft of calligraphy, but well worth the beautiful finished products.

Calligraphy and illuminations In Progress

Students practiced upper and lower case calligraphy for two weeks before designing an Illumination based on a piece of original written work or a quoted work from another source. Students gained knowledge of proportion, lettering, layout, and patience!

Coral Reef Crayon Resists

My special populations class' finished coral reef projects look great!

The Coral Reef Crayon Resist Process...

My special populations class had a wonderful time looking at images from coral reefs and creating their own in crayon and water color.

Life Skills Support Self Portraits

My life skills support classes looked at proportion, facial features and placement, skin pigmentation and use of the page. We drew our faces, added details, and mixed a skin color specifically to match our own. Backgrounds were completed in oil pastels.

Van Gogh Reproductions

And my Art 2 class completed this assignment using acrylic on canvas board. Scale, perspective, and coloring mixing were the major focus of this assignment.

Van Gogh Reproductions

Art 1 students reproduced Van Gogh paintings using water color pencils. This technique allows them to keep attention to details but also get a feel for water colors.

Winter Still Life

My Art 2 students tackled another challenging still life in watercolors, and learned the water color masking techniques.







In progress...






















Completed!

Lascaux Installation

My students studied the Lascaux cave paintings, made their own drawings of animals that would have been represented in these caves, and I enlarged them onto ceiling tiles. As a class we sponge painted them in, and now they look GREAT in our hallway ceiling!