Kluender: Dia De Los Muertos!

Happy Dia De Los Muertos!!!! Check out our display of our colorful sugar skulls! Our Art students loved this brief introduction to printing! Art 8 will begin a reduction linoleum block printing lesson next!

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Sugar Skull Printing

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Step 2: Printing our plates with white ink....
Once dry, we will add color with colored pencils :)

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Here are some completed styrofoam printing plates for our Dia De Los Muertos sugar skulls! Can't wait to print them!!!

Glassblowing with Ryan Gothrup!

Mrs. Kluender and Mrs. Bradley's Art classes had the opportunity to take a "mini field trip"
 next door to Lee Davis High School for a glassblowing demonstration from artist-in-residence, Ryan Gothrup. 

What a great experience! Our students got to learn about glassblowing techniques like "gathering" glass from the crucible/furnace, using the blowpipe and marver table to shape the glass, stretching the glass to the width of a hair, and blowing a paper thin bubble! 

Check out Ryan's work here- www.gothrupglass.com

Kluender: Art 78

My Art 78 classes are beginning to finish up their "Framed" colored pencil projects, and, WOW! They are GORGEOUS! Just check out some of these beauties...

 

Students used photos to draw from. We learned how to mix and bled colored pencils to make new realistic colors. They drew backgrounds that included something from the animal's habitat (leaves, flowers, coral reef, etc.) 

Then, we created a "frame" over the background to filter areas of colored pencil and grayscale shading.