SketchBooks in the Art Room!

Students in grades 5th - 8th are using sketchbooks are a major part of their Art cirriculum this year. One of their first assignments was to design an original cover of the sketch book, incorporating lettering, composition and of course - their own creative personality.

Sketching and doodling are important, not only for budding artists, but for creative thinking and problem solving.  It is a valuable tool that engages the mind, enhances our memory retention and concentration by creating a visual language.  Many of our most creative minds have kept sketchbooks...Thomas Edison, Leonardo Da Vinci just to name a few!

SketchBooks are important...and fun!  Keep Doodling!

5th Grade Winter Barn Paintings

Our 5th Graders did another spectacular job on these painting of winter barns in the snowy countryside.
The students were shown several different ways to draw barns and asked to make it the main focal point of their composition.  Foreground and background concepts were used and the color plalete was kept simple so as to emphasize the red barn.

Lesson Inspired by Deep Space Sparkle

5th Grade Blessed Mother and Child

The 5th graders did such a beautiful job on their oil pastel drawings of our Blessed Mother and Child.
The students were given very brief instructions on how to draw St Mary, then drew her in black oil pastel on black paper.  They colored in with oil pastels, leaving some paper showing through.  Gold and silver metallic paints were used to create the halos.  I believe this is my favorite art piece done so far this year!
I have left the art hanging upstairs long after the Christmas season has past in honor of our patron saint,
St. Mary.