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!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr.........It's Snowy Self-Portrait Time!

Allie's self-portait

Mina's self-portrait

2nd and 3rd grade students learned about self-portraits.  A self-portrait is when an artist paints or draws a picture of themselves.  Students looked at a variety of examples of self-portraits created by different artists such as; Vincent Van Gogh, Grant Wood, and Chuck Close.  It was the perfect time of year to create a picture of ourselves outside in the snow!  We used a collage method to do a winter background.  Look at these wonderful examples done by Mina and Allie!    

WMIS 6th Grade Contour Line Shoe Drawings

The 6th graders learned about descriptive, contour line drawings.  They practiced drawing their own shoes from life.  They gained a lot of confidence in their drawing abilities by drawing directly what they saw.  Many commented that they didn't know they could draw as well as they did.  They then turned their realistic controur line drawings, into surreal fantasies.