Pictures from our 2014-2015 Roosevelt Art Show. Thank you to family and friends who helped put the show together, to the Media Specialist for hosting a fabulous book sale, and to the PTA for coordinating a wonderful ice cream social. I hope everyone got a chance to come out to see all the art and appreciate their child's creative talents!
For our clay project this year, second graders made pinch pot animals. Now unfortunately because this was near the end of the school year, I forgot to take pictures of the work in progress. This school year was very busy with the pack up and I let a few things slide near the end, this blog and my dishes being a few of them! As far as the process goes, we started by making a pinch pot. While it may be referred to as a simple process, pinch pots can be very tricky. If a pinch pot gets too thin in an area, it will fall over and could crack. We focused on creating good thickness of the walls and paying close attention to making a smooth surface. For the second part of the project, students chose an animal and used the scratch/attach method to begin adding details to their pinch pot. Some students made bats, some dogs, some cats. I have my example as a bird. Once the animals were done, they were dried and fired. We used liquid watercolors to paint our creatures and then I sealed them all with a spray on polyurethane.
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AuthorMy name is Rachel Licavoli and I am an Art teacher at Johnson Upper Elementary and Roosevelt Elementary. Archives
June 2015
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