Paper Pulp

Paper Pulp Experiences Coming Soon!

Here's a taste...

 

Clay Reliefs

Feeling At Home

The following artwork is based on the idea of home. When do we feel "at home"?

It could be of course when we are home but if we reflect on the qualities of the feeling, then we can say feeling at home can be a state of mind. We can feel at home in an activity or experience like walking through a museum, playing an instrument, reading a favorite book or making art.

 The students thought about this idea and reflected on their own experiences.  Each created a clay relief using a symbol for their feeling of home.

 5th grade artwork

Applying, Creating and Exploring with Watercolor and Oil Pastels

Kinder and First Grade

Explore- undertake a systematic process of discovery

 Create- evolve from one one's thought or imagination, as a work or invention

After modeling  various watercolor techniques, students were encouraged to explore on their own; trying what was modeled but also encouraged to find their own discoveries.  The first week only  watercolor sets were used.   The second week, both watercolor and oil pastels were used.  This way, students could  synthesize both mediums to create an original artwork.

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detail of various techniques, clockwise top to bottom:
wet on dry paper, wet on wet (bleeding), watercolor resist with oil pastel, various, bleeding



 

Printmaking with a Cause

Central Idea:  Art can be a way to inspire change. 

Through art, the students brought awarness to a particular issue they felt strongly about. 



"This shows the forest.  People are taking down the forest and the animals' habitat.  They might die if they don't find a home.  Blue is for sad because the animals get sad when they
cut down their home."

3rd grade student

"My print is about El Salvador.  In El Salvador there are babies being killed or taken from their mothers. I want people to stop the killing."
Emily, 3rd grade



"My print is about pandas.  Their homes are being destroyed by knocking down the trees they live in.  It's their home and they need it."

Grace, 3rd grade 



My artwork is about guns.  I don't think people should sell guns.  If we didn't
sell guns we wouldn't have so much killing, in any place, there should be no guns. The color red
works because it means mad, angry and killed."
Kavin, 3rd grade



I wanted to show China...how there are people there that are starving and barely have any clothes. 
Joanne, 3rd grade

How Do We Love?

Alex, grade 1

We all experience love in some way.  As people, one way we can show love by sharing.  Sharing moments, words, thoughts, objects and much more.  As artists, we can show love by creating something for someone else.  We can make connections between what we make, why we make it, who or what it's dedicated to and the moment of giving. This is the conversation we had.   We also looked at various artworks and asked the question,
"What could this artwork tell us about love?"  Some images were challenging as students realized that love has many sides, some happy some sad, but in the end, it is something we all share throughout the world. 

Paintings, cards, and small pots were created by students with a particular person in mind to share them with.