West Milwaukee 6th grade Album Covers and Pop Art Portraits

Sixth grade students were lead through an incredible painting/portrait lesson by our very talented student teacher, Ms. Richardson.

Ms. Richardson showed the students many examples of artistic album covers, and pop art portraits. Students were limited to four colors, with black being the final addition. Composition, symbolism, and color placement were all important consideration in these fantastic paintings.

At the end of the project, the class participated in a positive peer critique, or "gallery walk" as we call it. It's always encouraging to see and hear kids at this age be able to appreciate eachother's talents.

 

WMIS -7th Grade Pop Art Prints

The 7th graders worked hard on creating styrofoam prints based on popular brands that are marketed directly to their age demographic. They researched logos and created simple, eye-catching designs. We studied pop artists, including the famous Andy Warhol, and their use of bold-flat color and repetition. Students had learn correct printing craftsmanship, were allowed to explore with many different colors of ink and paper. We mounted the works in groups of four and labeled our work. The last step was the addition of oil pastels, for an extra *pop* of color. Extra credit was offered to students who wanted to create their own product and logo. 

 

2nd/3rd grade Recycled Fish

2nd/3rd grade Recycled Fish

Step 1: Students used various sizes and shapes of plastic bottles as the body of the fish and attached recycled cardboard for the fins. Daniel is hard at work!

Step 2: Hannah and Isaiah are using water/glue mixture to add different colored tissue paper to their fish.

Seeraj is in the process of adding color to his fish.

Step 3: Students used Model Magic clay to add the eyes to their fish.

Here are a few examples of our finished recycled fish projects!

Monet Flowers at Mitchell

Students (2/3graders) are learning about the life and art of Monet. Students learned about his love of painting outdoors and that many of his works included images of flowers. Students are working hard painting papers that soon will be cut and formed into 3d flowers.

WMIS- Animal Eye Drawings

7th graders just finished their close-up, animal eye drawings.  The main focus of this art project was to look closely, and draw what you see and not what you know.  The students worked on enlargement and proportions.  In addition, they tried really hard to blend colors by overlapping colored pencils.  Great work 7th graders!

March is Youth Art Month

March is a time to celebrate the arts in education! Art promotes the 21st century skills: communication, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity. The West Allis-West Milwaukee School schools have a wonderful array of artwork on display at the administration building and the alternative learning center. If you have a chance, stop by to see all of the creative art done by kindergarten through high school aged students.

Students and families are invited to attend the opening reception on Sunday March 3rd from 1:00-4:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

Where the wild things are...

K5 students at Pershing Elementary created collaborative art after reading the book 'Where the Wild Things Are'. Each student made a tree and their very own wild thing. They loved getting to use their own wild side for inspiration!