Art 1- Shattered Sunsets

The 6th grade Art 1 class created shattered sunset paintings. This technique was supposed to look like a stained glass window hence the name "Shattered Sunset".

Here are a few examples!

Art 2 Palette knife paintings

Acrylic Palette Knife Painting- Art2 is learning a new technique using palette knifes!! Seen here are a couple of pics of second hour in progress. This was taken in the middle of the second six weeks. (and the hats were for Hat Day during Red Ribbon Week!)

ART 2 - Andy Goldsworthy Projects

Please forgive me for not keeping this updated so far! I have been swamped! I had actually done about ten "draft posts" but forgot to take the pictures! So, they never posted:( Anyway, I promise I'll TRY to do better for both you and my students!

Art 2 and the 7th/8th grade Art 1 are making projects using the beautiful scenery of Good Hope this fall season thanks to the new nature trail created this summer by our vice principals. This project is all about the nature around us and how to reconize the simplistic beauty of the nature around us. We began this project by watching a documentary of Andy Goldsworthy. We talked about how his art was inspired by nature, made with nature, made IN nature, and given to nature...and often destroyed by nature...Whew! Lotsa nature! :)Here are some pictures of the projects!

Blasting Off a New School Year!

Had to share this picture with all of you! I always have some creative kiddos that can't help themselves but to exhibit their creativity in a minute or two of down time! This rocket was made with notebook paper...and a very creative boy's hands:)

I'll be posting projects VERY SOON.. so STAY TUNED!! And feel free to comment!

Mrs. Leach

Art 1 - Flower Paintings

One of my classes did Georgia O'Keefe Flower Close-ups...

ART QUEST 2009

I wanted to share a few pictures of Art Quest 2009 (the annual art show and convention!!) Our winners this year were Sarah Cady in Sculpture, Nick Sanders and Katie Watson in Tempera, Kenda Barnes in Colored Pencil, and Kayla Phillips in Mixed Media! I am so proud of all my kids!

Art 2 - Oil Pastel Still Life

I always try to wait until nearly the end of the year to do Oil Pastels because it makes such a mess typically, but, because my Art 2 group is so awesome and dependable this year, I had NO mess!! Its an Art Room MIRACLE!! The individual still-lifes turned out Fabulous!! Here are a few!

Art 1 - Recycled Textbooks

We used old textbooks to create new artwork! We glued, painted and then decorated the books by beginning with a famous saying or quote and then illustrated them in our own unique way..here are just a few...

ART 1 -Recycled robots

One of my 6th grade classes had the challenge of creating robots out of household trash...(Clean trash!!) Here are some of the proud teams and their robotic creations!! BTW...Abi and Tori are doing "The Robot" dance for their picture...hehe!

Art 3 Fleur de lis paintings

Art 3 boys did mixed media paintings with different versions of the fleur de lis. They turned out very interesting...Here's a class shot with the paintings...

Art 2 Pointillism

This is a project that a teacher from another local school did and her children did FABULOUS work on it! So, I decided to try it with the kiddos here...and it was..successful! :) We used Sharpies to draw out the shadows of bottles on a still life using only dots, NO LINES. Beautiful work!

Here are just a few of the MANY great ones!

Madeline Kent

(we already matted hers for the upcoming art show)

Names are under each work! Great job all of you!!

Art 1 Fish Sculptures

6th graders have been busy making giant fish sculptures in teams that are decorating the halls here at Good Hope. Sculpture is sometimes hard for teachers to integrate into the classroom without massive amounts of space and without powertools, wood, metal, etc. So, I decided to make 3 dimensional paper sculptures that we could display rather than store (My storage space is getting seriously limited)! Some students went with characters from movies (Nemo!) and others chose to do anatomically accurate fish, whereas others created their own mythical fish (We actually have a Llamafish!) Teachers and Students are all excited about the colorful displays "swimming" through the hallways:) Here are a few pictures of just some of the fish. I'll take more pics to post soon!

Limo Lunch Trip

My dear students that sold 25 or more on the annual Art Fundraiser were treated to lunch at Johnny's Pizza. They traveled by LIMO (woohoo!) and enjoyed pizza, breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. The boys also got to watch the big screen on ESPN. Thank you for all your support!