8th Grade Scratch Art at WMIS

The 8th graders just finished their cropped, nature-inspired, scratch art projects.  This may be one of the most impressive projects I've seen so far.  I knew the project would be challenging for the kids, because it requires them to think almost backwards.  They are reductively scratching away at black to reveal white.  Prior to starting the project, we worked on cross-hatching and using lines to create value.  We also discussed cropping and it's use in composition.  I am absoloutely blown away by the quality of work the 8th graders created.

Turkey Time!



Students learned about warm and cool colors.

Students chose to color a coffee filter using only the warm or only the cool colors.

After we finished coloring, we sprayed the coffee filter with water and watched what happened when water mixed with marker. Wow, look at the result!

We then cut and glued the other parts of the turkey. Here is a warm colored turkey example.

This is a cool colored turkey example.

7th grade water colors with trees

Recently Lincoln 7th graders studied the artist Tom McCracken.  They made reproductions of his work using crayon, water colors, and black acrylic paint.  They all turned out very unique.

WMIS donates Day of the Dead Art to the VA

Here at West Milwaukee Intermediate, we are only a few blocks from the midwest's largest and oldest Veteran Affair's hospitals. On occasion, we have the honor of lending our artworks to them for special celebrations. This year, the VA is hosting a "Day of the Dead" or "Dia de los Muertos" for the veterans. The 6th grade art students were more than happy to permenantly donate some of their "Dia" skull prints to such deserving neighbors.

Polish Ornaments

8th grade Geometry students at Lincoln created these beautiful Polish Paper Ornaments.  They took the ornaments and decorated a tree in Down Town Milwaukee at Cathedral Square Park.  The best part about these ornaments was the collaboration between the students and the connections between math and art that the students got to experience!

Pershing 1/2/3 Matisse Veggies

 

 

Pershing's Next Generation Learning Community (1st-3rd graders) were inspired by Henri Matisse in this lesson. We read about the great French artist, Henri Matisse. His first love was painting, but after a difficult surgery, he was confined to a wheelchair and began doing paper cuttings. He called this technique "painting with scissors".

 

Students studied organic and geometric shapes, and built up their background with basic paper shapes. Afterwards, we looked at lots of different vegetables, and cut those shapes from paper as well. We got lots of cutting and glueing practice with this project!

These 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade artists are proud of their Matisse-inspired veggies!