Art, art, everywhere…

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I have not posted in a while. Sorry. It’s been super busy y’all! I got a lot of art hung up recently. It’s all in Nebinger’s auditorium “gallery” space. Endless white walls for me to hang on.

Here you see the kindergarten “Birds of a Color” or “For the Birds” project… whichever title you prefer. They mixed their own secondary colors and learned a few different ways to draw birds, all after watching Pixar’s “For the Birds”.
These are the third grade pop art portraits done in primary colors.   Below are 1st grader’s row home cityscapes, inspired by the colors and lines in the landscapes of Ted Harrison. If you are not familiar with his work, look it up. Total eye candy for kids and adults alike.
These are the 6th grade “Half-a-Selfie” portraits. Pretty self explanatory. We did a lot of prep to learn how to draw the face. I feel like a lot of them were still very uncomfortable with this though, but for it only being their second year having a formal art class (or any art at all), I think they did pretty good! Now if we could just get them to focus more and less with the talking. 😉  Here we have the 5th grade “Minecraft Me” pixelated portraits made from 1″ squares of paint chips donated by Fresh Artist and Behr paints. These were  A LOT of work to do, but I think they are quite interesting to see! 

Feel free to get in touch with me about any of the lessons. Some I found inspiration from other lessons on the web, some are classics, and some are inspired by friends. 🙂

Come check out Nebinger’s art again soon!!!

Modigliani portrait practice

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Trying to squeeze in one more project with first grade before the rotation is over. Modigliani style self portraits. But first, we practice! Long necks, blank almond shape eyes, oval heads, long skinny noses, and small closed mouths.

This week in the Nebinger Art Studio…

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IMG_1673 IMG_1674 IMG_16751st grade is working on Ted Harrison inspired row houses.
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Middle School Studio Art has their designs on fabric for their batik. Can you recognize the famous works of art they choose to draw from??

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Middle School Studio Art has begun engineering tubular sculpture inspired by Alexander Liberman. No rules, just gotta use the tubes, glue, and scissors. …to be painted later.

A tree for the seasons…

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I did this once a long while ago when I taught elementary in Delaware. I made a tree and changed its leaves, decoration, and animals for each season. I decided to do that here at Nebinger this year since I have a big ok basement hallway to play around with.

 


This is just the start of it… Hard to find the extra time to work on this. I need more leaves for the “ground” to represent the falling of the leaves in autumn. The leaves up there now were made by the lower grade autistic support classes.

We will change it to no leaves during winter (maybe keep some on the ground) and add snow and snowflakes. Maybe even some snowy owls.

So many exciting things!

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A lot is going on at Nebinger in the art world!

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We had a fantastic field trip to the PMA…My middle school studio art students…

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I really like this photo 🙂

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Lots of observational drawing and discussion on art

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Here is a list poem the students collaborated on with our guide, Rebecca:

Three Musicians – How are there 4 People?
violin
cold soulless eyes
a music book
a mask
instruments
patterns
audition
3 people
different shapes
a band
black
it looks like they love music
a desk
hat and glasses
all different colors
blue
stained glass
in the hallway
flute
performance
forest green
I see the light while they’re playing
Tiki guy
saxophone
a bright smile

This group of students will have work on display at the PMA in January, as they are part of the Delphi Art Partners.

In addition to that, I went to Fresh Artists today and was pleased to see one of our students art on permanent display in their outdoor space. 🙂 The art to the right is Nebinger work! 🙂

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Roy’s work, pictured above is also on display at the Comcast Building on Market Street. His classmate Robert also has a piece in that show! These kids get better art cred than me!

Learning Batik

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My middle school studio arts students are learning Batik through our partnership with the Philadelphia Museum of Art. So far we have practiced using the tjanting (the drawing tool) in the hot wax and have begun to plan out our collaborative Batik piece. Ms. Donna Backues (our resident artist) has been wonderful in leading my students through the process.  It’s all very exciting and I look forward to seeing the progress.

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3rd graders pop art expressive self portraits 

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A work in progress, but I’m so excited for these drawings I had to give ya a sneak peak. 

We looked at Lichtenstein and Warhol and I have them practice drawing portraits from mirrors before starting on the white paper.   
    
    
 

Paint 4 Play

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Paint 4 Play was a fun, chaotic 2 days of painting the school yard. It’s not totally done. I will have some kids do touch ups and a few additions. When that is done we should be able to get a drone to fly over our school yard and photograph it. The roof picture can’t quite capture the whole thing in it’s glory. Thank you to The Big Sandbox and to Lois and Kate and all the Penn students who came to help.

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The Art Studio- Fall 2015 Edition

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This will probably change some, as I am prone to move things around nest myself into a room. I need to keep feeling out the room and “talking” to it…as hippy dippy as that sounds…but I need to figure out that art room feng shui. I had to unpack and get all this together on my lonesome within 2 weeks, which may seem like a lot, but when you’re flying solo and you got boxes and boxes or stuff, your priorities become, “let’s find it a home for now, and make it look good.” The rest I will figure out as I go along. I always do. IMG_0525This is a reminder of essentially where I started at the beginning of the school year.

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My door/private basement hallway. It needs some decorating love still. We’ll get there.

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The room 360.

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How I do my standards and exemplars…

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My closet. …I know, right?! Btw- all that stuff- donated or bought with my money. Boom.

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I got one of these too. 🙂 It’s so low to the ground. LOL