Avella Elementary Art Room

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Museum Pics!

What a fun day!!! A huge thank you to the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Scaife Foundation for the scholarship and guided tour. We had a blast!

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Field Trip Permission Slips Due!

The Art Club will be visiting the Carnegie Museum of Art on May 20th. Please have all permission slips turned in by this Friday, May 6th.

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you amazing moms!

Fifth grade has worked so hard on this project! Each student came up with a design/pattern for their umbrella in their sketchbooks and then painted 6 panels. Students used newspaper and tape to create a handle and I hung the finished pieces in my classroom. Well done, artists!

Fun Boards!

Paint and Snack!

What a fun day! Thank you for letting me teach you all how to paint a sun!

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Second Grade Monet Paintings

Chairs Inspired by Famous Artists (in Progress)

Avella artist, Mel Dubich's interpretation of Hokusai's painting!

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Katsushika Hokusai

Saturday, March 19, 2016

BIG NEWS!!!!!

I am excited to announce that we were approved for a grant to go to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh!!!! We raised money through fundraising and had enough for the bus, but the Carnegie Museum was generous enough to pay for all of the Art Club's admission into the museum! I am so excited to take the students on this trip. A huge thank you to the Carnegie Museum of Art for helping us out!

Famous Artist Inspired Chairs

This is going to be a BIG project and I am so excited about it! I wanted the students to do a 3-D sculpture for their next project and I was inspired by Vincent van Gogh's chair painting. I thought it would be neat for each student to come up with their own chair design based on a famous artist.

Each student was assigned a famous artwork and researched their piece in the computer lab. Everyone had to come up with a sketch for their "inspired" chair and I was blown away!!!! After class I flipped through each sketchbook and was so impressed with the designs that they came up with. A huge part of this project is to not copy the artwork per se. I wanted the students to think bigger than that and use their own creativity to come up with an original artwork. I cannot wait to see the kids start this project and for the finished results!

Third Grade Roosters

Second Grade Hot Air Balloons

Second Grade made these awesome hot air balloons using various materials! First, we created a textured ground by rubbing crayon over our paper on the hallway wall. Next, we painted a sunset sky and white, fluffy clouds. Last, we mod-podged tissue paper onto our cut out balloons and then added a person inside of the basket. Nice work, artists!