Calendars are here!

Calendars are here and they look beautiful! Please come by the art room between 8:45am and 9:15am daily Or after school any day but Monday and Friday. Make sure I personally give you your copy and if I'm not in my room you will have to come at a better time. If you text me before then, I will make sure to be in my room.

I have had tons of people ask me if they could order calendars. Yes and no. If you still want to get a calendar please e-mail me and I will send you a link to the project on Shutterfly and you can order it individually. The price will be higher than $18 and this will be a personal purchase by you from Shutterfly.

Great characters....a gallery walk of all mixed-media 4th Grade portraits

I am so very proud to present the 4th grade portraits for this year. They are mixed media works done using watercolor, crayons, cray pas, and pencils. The began by drawing proportionate faces, then practicing specific features using mirrors. They then brainstormed specific personal characteristics they would like to portrait in their portraits. They then studied color theories and specifically looked at Van Gogh's use of compliments. This is the culmination of weeks of skill building and it shows!

To see in-process images and posts of this project, just click on 4th grade on the search list on your left and you will see a whole gallery of the entire unit.

If your child's portrait is not here they have not yet finished them and need to set up time with me aside from class time to finish it.

Children used mirrors to see where their skin appeared darker and lighter.

Using Cray pas on our hair allowed them to appear textured.



We discovered that our upper lips appear darker than our bottom lips. Why is that you think?










Inspired by Va Gogh's work using strong complements we too used equal amount of complements as a way to draw in the viewer.