Sixth Grade has been away at Echo Hill this entire week, so nothing to report for their Art and Art History classes... However, exciting things are happening in the other grades! No finished projects to share, but a lot of creativity is going on in the art room! Fifth graders spent the week sculpting pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns from clay. They used plastic bowls as forms, filling them with coils of clay and then smoothing them out to create two matching half spheres. They scored the tops of the bowl shapes and put them together to create a round pumpkin shape. Now they are going to town cutting out faces, adding stems and accessories (yes, these pumpkins have accessories!!). Seventh graders are knee deep in magazine clippings, tissue paper and other collage materials. After creating a line drawing of a still life, students divided the work into four sections. One section has been rendered in pencil, one in oil pastel and now students are using collage on the third (the fourth will be watercolor paint). Eighth graders are still working on their Audubon inspired bird drawings and watercolor prints. Some students have begun the process of printing. More details to come when I post the final work, but here is a student pulling her print off the press...