GETTING CLOSER...

One more ceiling tile added to the stable this year!!!  Getting sooooo close to having all eleven finished.  Just three more to go!

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington joins the long list of cartoon and pop culture figures to decorate the ceiling tiles in the art room!!!  We're getting close to having them all complete...just three more to go!

Art to Remember

Spring Art to Remember orders are HERE!!!  I will do my best to get all Art to Remember orders distributed to the kids this week!  However please be patient...MANY of these orders are for sixth graders that no longer have art class...so I'll do my best to hunt them down and give them their orders.

I'm also taking orders for late processing through May 6th!!!  So...if you still have your envelope laying around and still want to order...this is your final chance.  Oh...and if your sixth grader is in Mrs. Shaffer or Mrs. Terzis' homerooms...you will get order envelopes soon! 

Thanks so much!

CIS ART SHOW

...it's starting to look like an art show...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

This year's CIS ART SHOW will be held the evening of MONDAY, MAY 18th!!!  Each student at Creekview that had art this year will have 2 artworks displayed aroudn the walls of Creekview.  Please mark your calendars and stop by for a quick visit to see the amazing artwork created over the course of this 2014-15 school year!!!

SPONTANEITY!

Sometimes...under the dome of art room spontaneity...weller happens!  :)  

CEILING TILE No. 6!!!

The sixth ceiling tile was finished yesterday; a very colorful, NEON representation of Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night"!!!  Only five more to go until all eleven are finished (and it looks like maybe a few of them may get finished today...or tomorrow...YAY!)

CEILING TILE No. 5!

Two more ceiling tiles were finished today, and I'm pretty sure two more might get done tomorrow!  But, I'd like to give each one it's due...so today is the Waffle Tile!  ...I'm suddenly hungry...for waffles...

CERAMIC GARGOYLES

Students from Mrs. Gould's fifth grade class work on sculpting gargoyles from ceramic clay!

My second semester fifth grade classes are busy finishing up their ceramic gargoyles this week.  Originally created to be used as a 'gutter system' on Gothic architecture and cathedrals, gargoyles represent some of the greatest achievments of stone sculputors from the 14th-16th centuries.  Students are mounting the pinch pot gargoyle heads on a slab base and then have the option of making theirs purely decorative or an actual water spitter.  The projects will need to dry for a few weeks before they're fired in the kiln.  We will then glaze them, refire them and they'll be ready for display.  The kids are LOVING this project!!!

JABBA the HUTT

"Jabba the Hutt" drawn by Donovin Natividad

I love it when some of the quirky, ridiculous things I do in the art room inspires kids to make art!!!  Take for example my latest sketchbook assignment video.  I created a video using a Jabba the Hutt toy that I have in my room and had him 'talking' to the kids 'assigning' them a sketchbook assignment.  And then...this happened!  One of my sixth graders watched the video and created this fantastic Jabba the Hutt drawing!!!  Just amazing!!!  It's these 'little things' that really make my job so enjoyable...

Happy Thursday!

STUDENT ART SHOWCASE

This Saturday, the Houston House will be home to the second annual CIS Student Art Showcase.  Over one hundred artworks created by Creekview fifth and sixth graders have been selected to be showcased in this wonderful celebration of the visual arts!!!  Please be sure to stop by the Houston House this Saturday from 11-3 to see the amazing work created by some talented young artists!!!  

CEILING TILES

Check it out...one more ceiling tile finished today as well!!!  WHOO-HOO!!!

CEILING TILES

"The Magic of Art" has been completed and has joined the ranks of the painted ceiling tiles in the art room!!!  Wonderful job!!!