4th Grade creates "The Neighborhood", similar to Romare Bearden

4th grade creates self portraits using paper.

Imaginary Trees

6th graders created trees, imagining what is really inside of a tree, or under ground.

8th Grade self portraits

Students were given the option to choose realistic, cartoon, paper collage, or abstract for their portraits.

100 Days of Monsters

Inspired by the artist, Stefan Bucher, who films himself drawing a monster every day, and posts the video on his site...we watched a few videos of his art making techniques. http://www.dailymonster.com/344_loves_you/monsterarchive.html

As their project, students purposely spilled ink on their paper and created monster drawings from their 'mess' with straws and caligraphy pens.

8th Grade: The Scream: Phobias

Fear of open spaces, fear of drugs, fear of moths, fear of children, fear of chemicals, fear of sharp objects, fear of celestial beings, fear of germs....just a few of the phobias 8th grade illustrated with their version of Munchs "The Scream"