And yet another ART contest for our little artists!!! (You can win $1000 dollars)

I will not be collecting these entries at school, but if you are interested in helping your child enter this contest please keep reading.

Not everyone is into art contests. This post is for those who are:

Play With Your Pears Kids' Art Contest

Win a $1,000 Gift Certificate From SmileMaker's® , Inc.

Kids 5-18—Here's your chance to play with your food and win big. The Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service is sponsoring a contest to encourage kids to "Play With Your Pears" by decorating a canned pear (or downloadable pear outline) for a chance to win a $1,000 SmileMaker's, Inc. gift certificate for art and educational supplies. See the contest website for full details.

http://eatcannedpea rs.com/playwithy ourpears/

The Play With Your Pears kids' art contest is sponsored by Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service and runs from October 1, 2010 through December 15, 2010.

Open to legal residents of the United States and District of Columbia, entrants must be between 5-12 and 13-18 years of age in their state of residence at the date of entry. Void where prohibited. (Odds of winning depend on number of entries.? Is this statement necessary?) We respect the privacy of minors and operate this contest in compliance with COPPA rules and regulations. All entries from minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian's approval. See full rules and regulations.

Grand Prize: Two $1,000 SmileMakers, Inc., Gift Certificates: one gift certificate for each age category (5-12 and 13-18). See official rules for complete prize details.

No purchase necessary.

Official rules at http://eatcannedpea rs.com/playwithy ourpears/ official- rules/

Pacific Northwest Canned Pearsin a $1000 certificate for art and school supplies fromp Smilemakers, Inc
Cynthia Traina
cynthia@trainapr. com
415/775-3330
m: 415/310-1442

DCPS Food Art Contest....All students can apply (deadline November 20th)

Assignment:

Create a flat artwork on paper from home that includes fruit and vegetables using any medium. Place your name, teacher's name, grade and age in the back of the work and drop off in the classroom.

In Depth Information for Parents:

Over the past five years, the Zenith Community Arts Foundation’s (ZCAF) annual Food Glorious Food program has helped support the Capital Area Food Bank to feed the hungry in our community. ZCAF would like to invite Murch school and other DCP Schools to participate in our first Food Glorious School Food Art Contest to support and promote our Sustainable theme. We invite your students to produce a work of art made with fruits & vegetables, we will encourage your students to have creative fun and think healthy. The winning student artist/s will have their art work turned into a painted mural at their school. Any student or team of students can submit an entry. The work can be done at home or in school but it must be professionally photographed in-school by CityYear and submitted by the art teacher before Nov 22nd. Also, taking candid photos of the creative process will be wonderful too. Once again, the photographs of the art pieces will have to be submitted on or before Nov 20th, 2010 to Ms. Cutelis for review and judging by ZCAF. The winner, first & second runners up will be announced Monday, November 28, 2010. (balloons) All schools submitting will receive Calendar acknowledgment and a special prize. The top three entries will receive invitations and 10 tickets each to the Calendar Gala Event and their photographs displayed with the other artists works at 7:00PM Dec 1, 2010, where the winner will be announced. The winner will have a large mural of their fruit and veggie creation painted in the room of their choice. First and Second runner up will receive trophies and all submitting school will receive a special

prize.

Food Glorious Food, themed Sustainable & Scrumptious, will open at the Embassy Suites Hotel at Chevy Chase Pavilion on Wednesday, December 1, with our Calendar Launch Event and silent auction, emceed by WUSA 9 news anchor Andrea Roane. The art and calendars will remain on display and sale through December.

URGENT REQUEST: Need Oatmeal cannisters (updated November 16th)

We STILL need many, many more oatmeal containers. Both large and smaller size cannisters will do. Even cardboard TANG canisters will serve the purpose.

The 4th Grade classes will be making totem poles and studying paper sculpting. Can you please save and drop off any and all oatmeal containers you may have at home to the art room. Thanks in advance. You can contact me at Miriam.Cutelis@yahoo.com if you have any questions.

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.