Summer Art Classes are BACK!

Summer art classes are BACK!  There are 2 sessions this summer.  Session one runs from July 10th to July 31st on Wednesdays from 9-11am.  Session two runs from August 7th to August 28th on Wednesdays from 9-11am.  Each session is $40 and includes supplies.  If your student would like to do both, the cost is discounted to $75 and also includes supplies.

Don't hesitate to contact me with questions!

FOR MY INFORMATION: Click here to download the informational and sign up sheet.

OLSH Fine Arts Night 2013 Slideshow

Fine Arts Night: People's Choice Winners

Hello Everyone!  Fine Arts Night was a great success.  Thank you to everyone that helped and particularly the teachers that stayed after school with me and put in the long hours.  I couldn't have done it without you!  Also, thank you art club members to grades 5-8, you really helped bring everything together.  You made the large flowers, banners, artwork, the piggy houses, your badges, to name a few!  Thank you to the parents for all you do for your students and your support for art at our school.  Stay tuned for more photos of the event on here or on the Fine Arts Night page.  Now to honor the winners of the People's Choice.


Hannah, 8th grade 

 

 Justin, 5th Grade

 Maeve, Kindergarten

Art Club Badges Are Done

Just finished putting together the badges for art club members grades 5-8!  They will be wearing them during Fine Arts Night as they help younger students with the make-and-take projects.

The Three Little Pig Houses

Here are the three little pig houses for The Three Little Pig Opera Thursday, May 30th at Fine Arts Night!  Art club members did an amazing job!

Silent Auction Artwork Sneak Peak

Art club members grades 5-8 teamed up and made these beautiful works of HEART on canvas.  Thank you to the Pre-K and first grade for making the hearts back in February.  Save your pennies and come ready to bid on our students' artwork during the silent auction and Fine Arts Night Thursday, May 30th, 2013 from 5-8PM.

Fine Arts Night Poster

The 2nd Annual Fine Arts Night will be Thursday, May 30th from 5-8PM.  Everyone is invited!

Sneak Peak!

Here is a sneak peak of two of the wonderful works of art available during the silent art auction at this year's Fine Arts Night.  Third grade used newspaper and acrylic paint to create city skylines.

Art Club Update

Another successful art club meeting yesterday.  Thank you to my wonderfully talented members.  We finished 5 canvases and they are ready for Fine Arts Night on May 30th for the silent art auction.  We also made this amazing giant paper flower.  The flower came out so nice that we are thinking about making more for Fine Arts Night.

Kindergarten: Zippy The Zebra

Meet Zippy the Zebra!

Day 1:  The students and I watched a YouTube video, "Zippy the Zebra."  Poor Zippy had many fleas and was very itchy, he could not get ride of them.  Then, Zippy walked by two birds in a tree that were very hungry.  The birds ate all of the fleas off Zippy.  Zippy felt better and the birds were not hungry anymore.  This is called symbiosis.  The students and I brainstormed other symbiotic relationships.

Symbiosis: Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical associations, typically to the advantage of both.

After, we talked about the black and white stripe pattern on zebras.  We spent the remaining time in class making matters with buttons, pom-poms, colored pasta, buttons, beads, and wood shapes.

Day 2:  Students traced, cut out, and glued together all of the parts to make their zebra.  They assembled the zebra onto the background color of their choice.

Day 3:  Students were given artistic freedom to make whatever colored stripes on Zippy, as long as they made a pattern.  Student glued on a yarn tail and mane.

7th and 8th Grade: CD Weaving

The 7th and 8th grade completed radial weaving on old CDs.  After everyone was done, I tied the CDs together to display outside of the art room.

Fine Arts Night is Coming Up!

Art club worked today after school on artwork for fine arts night.  We are very excited!  I hope you are too!

BPAC: Pop-Up Park Event

Hello Everyone,

I receive monthly emails from the Burchfield Penney Art Center on their upcoming events.  I wanted to share this one with you.  There is a call for children ages 8-18 to participate in their Pop-Up Park event on Saturday, April 13.  The kids will be designing, build, plan on, and tear down their own park.  Sounds fun to me!  More information below on their website:

Burchfield Penney Art Center: Pop-Up Park Information

Art Club: First Meeting

I was very excited to hold our first art club meeting this week.  Art club members in grades 5-8 met and discussed our plans for this year's art club.  We had a lot to talk about.  Grades 5-8 art club will play a huge role in fine arts night this year (Thursday, May 30, 2013).  In the time we had left, students painted owls onto toilet paper tubes.

5th Grade: Flash Yarn

"Flash yarn" (name re-purposed to use at school) is a new wave of graffiti that does not harm public spaces like spray paint does.  I encourage you to click on the link below to see other examples of "flash yarn."

More Examples