student Projects
Graphite Balloon Letter
Students completed 2 shading technique assignments prior to completing a graphite balloon letter. Students spent multiple days using a grid to block out their letter and transferring it onto a final 6x6 sheet of paper.
Oil Pastel Landscapes
Students learned the properties of oil pastel crayons. They completed a warm-up worksheet prior to completing their landscape using foreground, middle and background elements.
Nonrepresentational Painting & Explosion Books
Students learned the difference between abstract and nonrepresentational before completing a painting. We discussed emotions and color psychology and watched the movie Inside Out. Students cut up their nonrepresentational painting and then pasted it into their explosion books. The book folds into a 5x5 square and opens up to reveal the inside folds like the images you see below.
Radial Symmetry Origami
Students learned the history of origami and followed along with teacher instruction to master 5 different origami folds. Students then chose multiple colors to create a symmetrical composition using the learned folds.
Ceramics Animal Mugs & Pinch Pot Monsters
Students learned about ceramics, pottery, hand, slab, coil and pinch methods of creating projects to complete two kiln fired projects. Students glazed animal mugs and used acrylic paint to complete their monsters.
Colored Pencil Bubbles
Students used their cumulative knowledge on colored pencil techniques to create a composition of bubbles.
Tic Tac Toe - Air Dry Clay
Students created tic-tac-toe boards complete with 10 player pieces all crafted with air dry clay, finishing them with acrylic paint. Students spent the day before Thanksgiving playing with one another in friendly competitions!
Holiday Cards
WCSD holds an annual competition for students to complete a holiday card in the medium of their choosing. Students used watercolors, tempera paint, colored pencils and markers to complete their holiday cards. Cards could not contain any religious or copywrited character references.
Perspective Houses
Students designed their own one or two point perspective houses after learning the fundamentals, practicing with shapes, cubes and differing vanishing points. Students needed to choose between a decorated holiday house or a spooky theme.
