Bell School Winter Musical 2013 Dress Rehearsal

2nd and 3rd grades doing a fabulous job at dress rehearsal!

The Bell School 2013 Winter Musical Is Here!

3rd Grade Fall Birch Tree Landscape Paintings

The third graders created Fall Birch Tree Landscape paintings in watercolor. This was a very sucessful project with the kids. Three of our students work was selected to be exhibited this winter at our local bank.

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Winter Cardinal Paintings

One of my favorite winter images is a Cardinal in the snow. Prior to leaving for winter break I decided to introduce a directed painting assignment with the Kindergarten and 1st grade art students on a cardinal in the winter woods.

Owl Moon 1st Grade Enrichment Program

Our 1st grade students had the opportunity to have an enrichment program come in last week called WingMasters. This is a program that brings birds of prey, primarily owls into elementary schools to introduce them to the kids and discuss interesting facts about the birds. This program has been around for a number of years. My daughter, who is a junior in high school still remembers WingMasters visit when she was a kindergartner many years ago.
I found a really interesting owl painting project that works with basic shape recognition in observational painting, the technique of developing an underpainting and working with various paint colors and applications to create texture.
The kids really loved this project.

Linked to Pinterest!

After a few hours of trying to figure out how to link my Pinterest account to my Google Blog...yippee I figured it out. It's the small things in life that make me happy these days. :-)

1st Grader Geometric Shape Scarecrows

First Graders in the Bell Art room have been very busy this Fall working on shape recognition in drawing and painting. We are quickly moving away from use of "tracers" and are beginning to free hand geometric and organic shapes from imagination and from observation. "You can draw anything if you can recognize the shapes in the object." The 1st graders have been working on a series of drawing and paintings based upon simple geometric shapes. Through this directed drawing the kids developed scarecrows with the use of circles, squares, ovals, rectangles and trapezoids.

 

Geometric Shape Scarecrows

Materials: Oil Pastels, Tempera Paints and Buttons on Paper. :-)