 Congratulations to the following elementary students who had art chosen to be displayed in the annual Youth in Art Exhibit at the Bonifas Art Gallery. Kindergarten Delaney, Ethan, Gracie, Sa'Nai, Norah, Jase, Zander & Harper 1st Grade Myla, Greyson, Lyla, Gabby, Emma & Aleese 2nd Grade Jansen, Presley, Joel, Ty, Kiona & Cameron 3rd Grade Addison, Natalie, Brianna, Tyler, Ella, Braiden, Conner, Carter, Pryar, Zaylee, Maddy, Alexis, Andrew, Bree, Ashley & Averie 4th Grade Amilia, Kaden, Riley, Hunter, Addison, Josie, James, McKenzie, Griffin, Jacob, Michael, Lauren & Nova 5th Grade Maycee, Sierra, Arianna & Dalyn  The Youth in Art exhibit showcases art of K-12 students from in and around the Delta County area. At the elementary level, I choose art through out the year to be displayed. The exhibit will be on display from February 28th - March 28th. The gallery hours and address can be seen below. An optional Art Reception will be held on Wednesday, March 13th from 6-7pm EST. Parents and students are encouraged to attend this reception, but may also view the gallery during any open business hours for FREE. (FYI - The reception tends to be a VERY busy event) Awards will be given during this reception. If a student is not present, the ribbons are given to me to pass along to the students. I encourage families to take advantage of seeing your child's art displayed in a professional gallery if you have the chance.  Due to an abundance of snow days, one of my two 3rd grade classes is ahead of the other. For this reason, I found this adorable lesson from an amazing fellow art educator @2art.chambers (check out her amazing Instagram) to complete with Mrs. Veeser's class today. Check out the process photos below, and completed projects as well. Click on the images directly below to enlarge.          Happy Valentine's Day!Through my years at North Central, I've tried to improve both of my classrooms to make them appealing learning environments for all of my students. Initially, most of my time was spent updating the high school art room because I was there the majority of my day. I've made many changes to that art room - check them out HERE and HERE, too! There is always room for improvement, but overall I am fairly content with the state of that room.  High School Art Room (Summer 2018)  My focus lately has been shifted to my elementary room in Hermansville. I have updated it gradually through the years, but not as much as I would like. I still have a lot of ideas of things I'd like to do. My high school room is decorated mainly with COOL colors (blues, greens, and purples, as seen above). My idea is to have my elementary room contain mainly WARM colors in addition to a handful of rainbow items of course. First up, BEFORE photos of the current elementary room:   I've wanted to paint the back wall of my classroom ever since I first saw it, but have not found the time to do so. With all of our recent snow days due to the "polar vortex" I've spent many days at home... and after 12 of these said snow days... cabin fever definitely was REAL for me. That being said... I decided this was the time to get this project done!  When I went to the store to purchase the three colors I needed, I knew that it was the right time to paint! Conveniently, paint was on clearance and I was able to get all of the paint I needed for $10 total! Can't beat that!
This was a great time for me to get this project done, because I had ample time to let the paint dry, and things wouldn't be disrupted at all. You can see from the photo above that snow removal was no joke during our almost two full weeks off from school. My goal for the first day of painting was to get one coat over the entire wall. My progress from this day can be seen below.
   That little end section was a pain... do I keep it or paint over? On day 2 I added a second coat, filled in all of the edging, and did an initial layer on the blended sections. My progress can be seen below. Almost done!
 Slowly but surely...  I made quite the mess through the whole process... whoops! At this point, I was exhausted and called it a night on Day 2. One more day of final touches, blending, and clean-up to go! On Day 3, I touched up the edges, finished the blending areas, and decided to make the end portion all red because the fourth color did not cover like I hoped. Final results can be seen below!   While paint was drying, I also added some Christmas lights!   Before & After I can't wait to show my students this week!
Mrs. Veeser's 3rd grade students created the collaborative piece below to spread a little LOVE in the hallway for the month of February. This project was created just for them as part of their reward for winning the art room challenge for the 2nd quarter. |
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