K – 6 Art

For over 80 ans, the San Diego Museum of Art has held a juried exhibition of student art. This year’s show is all about identity. Young Art ‘The Story of Me’ is on display right now at the Museum at the Center for Community and Cultural Art. Learn more in this article.

Our school had a record 12 pieces in this year’s show. Congratulations to all our young artists! Here are all their fabulous projects, arranged by grade:

First Grade: Clay Self-Portraits

First Grade: Royal Self Portrait

L. and her royal self-portrait

Deuxième année: Super Hero Self Portraits

Third Grade: Heritage Self Portrait

Gavin’s heritage self-portrait, ‘Flag Face’, incorporates the flags of France and Italy.

Quatrième année: CD Case Double Portraits

Cinquième année: Charm bracelets and dog tags

Mo’s self-portrait is a T-shirt and neck chain, with charms for skiing and Spiderman.

Bella’s self-portrait charm bracelet includes charms for Mexico, swimming, and Disneyland.

Jacob’s salute to his family’s military background includes a camouflage shirt and individual dog tags for family members in the service.

Well done artists!!!! The show is up until May 26, 2013. Hope you can visit!

Thanks to the fabulous art education team at SDMART for making Young Art happen. Our community truly appreciates all your hard work.

Jouir!

I just came back from Prague. WOW. In addition to castles, cathedrals and pastry, I had the joy of checking out hand-made crafts in small shops throughout the city. These clay sheep and owls were so adorable I just had to try them myself!!!

I saw these charming clay sheep tiny gift shop on the Charles Bridge. The shop was so tiny only two people could enter at a time! The ceramic sheep are wheel-thrown clay bells, covered in clay spiral ‘wool’. They are unglazed.

My version of the Czech sheep:

Top view

I started with an inverted pinch pot, stuffed it with newspaper, and added face, ears, and spirals. I will let them dry, bisque fire, then do a cold finish by painting with tempera or watercolors, then rinsing off in the sink.

I think this would work for grades 4-6, and take around 45 procès-verbal -1 hour to teach.

Verdict: I showed my sample to my 6th grade helpers: they LOVED it.

The Czech Owls:

These beautiful, textured clay owls were hollow clay cylinders with closed bases. A hole was poked in the base to keep the owl from exploding in the kiln.

My version of the Czech owl:

I started with two pinch pots, stuffed them with newspaper, and sealed together to form a cylinder. I smoothed the cylinder by rolling it back and forth on a board. Next I tapped the bottom on the board to flatten. Enfin j'ai essuyé le cylindre avec une éponge humide pour lisser.

Je texturé l'argile, et les ailes ajoutées et un bec. J'aurais aimé avoir quelques différents timbres de texture pour les yeux….encore, ils se sont OK.

J'ai poussé une brochette à travers le fond pour laisser l'air s'échapper lors de la cuisson.

Je vais laisser sécher, et bisque feu. Ces hiboux pourraient être vitrifiés, ou tout simplement peint à l'aquarelle et pulvérisé avec vernis brillant.

Ceux-ci prendra environ une heure pour faire. Sixième année et collège.

Vous pouvez également simplifier cela en utilisant un seul pot de pincement inversé pour le corps hibou. Veillez à bourrer avec du papier journal froissé avant d'ajouter texture. Cela pourrait travailler pour les grades 4-6.

Verdict: mes compagnons de 6e pensais que mes hiboux ressemblaient pingouins!!! Ils ont recommandé de faire des yeux plus petits et les plus grandes ailes. Ils ont certainement préféré le mouton.

Bien que je n'ai pas ramener les brebis d'argile tchèque ou hiboux, Je ne pouvais pas laisser cette boutique impressionnante de cadeau bredouille! Je suis parti avec ce fabuleux Beethoven sgraffites tasse comme un cadeau pour mon mari.

Bien, vacances de printemps était génial, mais c'est fini. De retour au travail!

Jouir!

Tant de poissons dans la mer!

Notre sixième année terminée le projet d'argile dalle de poissons. Although I provided a choice of just three templates, students were able to customize them through re-shaping, texture, and glaze. We ended up with a wide variety of fish.

These three rainbow fish started from the same template. Artists scratched lines into the wet clay to make stripes. Later they painted these defined areas. Students who did this technique ended up with neatly glazed fish. Prudence: avoid scratching a line across the narrowest part of the tail – it will be more likely to break.

Want to make a rainbow fish? Make shallow lines in wet clay with a skewer. Glaze fired clay – try to stay inside the lines!

Here is a different rainbow fish. The artist used a different template, then created texture with tiny balls of clay and the eraser tip of pencil. The fish is trimmed with a thin clay coil, which the artist later glazed shiny black.

NICE WORK SIXTH GRADERS!!!

I wrote how to roll and cut the fish ici et ici. More glazing examples ici. More examples next week!

Sixième année vient de terminer le projet de poissons d'argile. Les étudiants avaient ouvert utilisation de mes glaçures – some chose to do an ‘Action Jackson’ Pollock-inspired pollock. The fish were base coated with a solid coat of underglaze, then splattered with a variety of underglazes. No clear top coat necessary.

This technique worked best on untextured clay.

The entire project took three class periods. You can read about the entire clay fish process ici et ici.

More glazing techniques next week!

Ouf! Nous venons de terminer notre poisson d'argile cet après-midi. Ils ont pris 40-60 minutes pour décorer. We rolled and cut them last week and stored them in gallon Ziplock bags. I wrote about the clay fish process in this post.
Here are some nice examples.

A bunch of kids are coming in early to help clean up. Ouf!

Jouir!