Paper mache piggy banks

Wow Was this cool!  Studio Art Club created paper mache piggy banks!  We used a balloon to get the shape and then taped on egg creates, bottle caps, and paper to create the animal shape.  Then, we wrapped those funky little things with paper mache strips- that's the fun, messy part!  Over the next week the paper mache dries and the balloon pops making the inside hollow and the perfect place to put money!  Students then painted their new creatures, glued on details, and then we cut the slit in the top and a hole in the bottom and there you have it- Piggy Banks!

                            

Crazy hair day

Look at these fun paintings!  Crazy straw painting done in art club.  Students put water color on their paper and used a straw to blow the paint around!  These sure make me smile!

Crayon melting

Art Club is Melting Crayons!  Each artist is coming up with an idea, doing a sketch, and then will combine melted crayon with paint to create a mixed media Masterpiece!  Check back to see our progress!

DC Comic book artist visits Evans School!

Artist, Ethan Van Sciver spent the week with Evans' third graders teaching them all about the comic book world!  Ethan taught the students step by step how to draw a super hero in action.  He walked them through step by step how to use shapes to create the form!

Abominable Snowman Transformation

School Spirit Art Club brainstormed on what they wanted the winter display to look like this year.  They decided on the Abominable Snowman and his cave.  The students broke off into groups and got to work on making their vision come to life!

School Spirit ARt Club

Art club in front of their hard work! This was all part of the Monster themed fall book fair!  Our Pta does a fabulous job of getting the kids excited to read!!!

Very patriotic for Veterans Day!!

Tomorrow we are celebrating Veteran's Day!  Kindergarten, some first grade classes, and studio art club worked hard the past two weeks to create some Star-Spangled Spirit Pictures to welcome our Veterans!  I look forward to posting the finished art work tomorrow!

Below are some Kindergarteners using modge podge to create a tissue paper collage.  

The tissue paper collage was turned into a star and the students made some funky stripes to put in the background!  

                         

Mrs. Stoner and Mrs. Rothamel's first graders learned about the liberty bell.  They created their own below!  

In Studio Art Club we did marble painting on our red white and blue collages to prepare our backgrounds for our Statue of Liberty portraits.  We looked at artists Peter Max and Dan Dunn for inspiration!  

Check out this AWESOME video!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBtpgtOK30g

You can never be too old for marble painting!  

Dying our newspaper Green to prepare it for our Lady Liberty Drawings

Below you can see a Lady Liberty completed!  The Studio Art kids did a fantastic job on this project!  

Art Club Shirts Part II

This week Art Club finished making their T-Shirts by adding stenciling designs!  The students had so much fun adding the final touches to their t-shirts and making them unique!  

Click here to see the First Day of Tye Dye

Monster Mania in the Making!

School Spirit Art Club is off to work on their first project... MONSTERS!

The students are making big monsters to help decorate for the book fair!  I can hardly wait to see them all done!! 

                                         

Students looked at a variety of monsters, played a monster Game, and then began creating!  

Tye Dye

                                                       First Step of Art Club Shirts!

This year I am having two art clubs and as our first project we are going to make Art Club Shirts! 

So this week we prepared our shirts and tye dyed!  

The students watched youtube videos on different ways to rubber band the shirts and then we went outside to tye dye!  

The students got beautiful results- so bright and vibrant!  In the next few weeks we will decide what we want the shirts to say and prepare to paint them!

Here is a great video on how to make a spiral Tye Dye Shirt!