They've seen the light!

Yeah, my kids are just great. This piece was done by an Honors kid who is doing amazing work this year. I wish I could have had her one more year so that she could do AP, but she needs to move on to college. Where ever she goes that place will be better for having her!

bust male sculpting clay ceramic

We will use this method, but we will fill the body with newspaper first.

Kids work!

It is great to watch a kid's work as she puts the ideas and together and begins to construct the piece. I'd love to feature all of my kids' work, but that will be impossible. So check out the links on the right to see each kids work. Katie's work!

Workin' away!

The classes are moving forward and making art. The 3D kids have started blogging, and I hope that you get to check out their work.

As usual, I'm amazed by what the kids come up with.

In this one, Alex found an artist, Eugene Soloviev, with whose work he became smitten. "I really enjoyed making this piece because Soloviev's style really appeals to me. The idea behind Soloviev's pieces is that he takes two things that don't belong together and put them in a "different" background. In my piece I took a tiger and a house cat and put them underwater to portray a cat's distaste for water. Furthermore, it's sort of ironic that the tiger is chasing a house cat. I had a slow start to this piece, but I am pleased with how it turned out." Alex

Pickle Boy

This is a beginning tutorial that the graphics kids will do. I had some fun putting it into context, and I learned a new trick, which I always love. I cannot wait to see the kids' efforts.

And we begin!

I'm having the sculpture kids blog this year, too. And I plan on using this blog to communicate and post information, so I hope that it is even more lively with kids' art and thoughts.

This is what we've been working on in sculpture. The kids are drawing cubes and shapes and rotating them on the 2D surface. As a school we're now a 1:1 iPad campus. So I've had the kids drawing in Notability, which is lovely and fine and works. But I offered the use of a traditional sketchbook, and everyone in one of my classes took one. Go figure. So they'll still use the iPads for research, music, communicating thoughts and ideas through social media and emails, and anything else we can think of.

Here we go!

Umm...Summer is over.

The end of this year!

I cannot believe the end of this year is here, but it is. The kids did some amazing stuff, and I am so proud of their efforts. I've been taking clay lessons, and the information that I'm getting is transferring over to what the kids are doing. So I know I've got to keep it up.

Summer is here!

Super Heroes project results.

There were some really nice pieces that the kids made for the Super Hero project. It is really refreshing to see them come up with their ideas!

There are so many reasons this is great!

This kid made a year out of making art that included his image and heritage.

And this kid had too much fun and included social commentary.

Winding down.

It is hard to believe that the year is at its end. The seniors have about a week left--although some have already checked out. The rest of the kids can feel it, too. Even so, they are making some good stuff. This is a plaster cube that a kid made. He made a 6"x6"clay mold, which was a long process, but his efforts are in the nearly-finished piece once the plaster was poured in and the clay removed. His original thought was that the object would be one that was recovered from an archeological dig somewhere. I cannot wait to see it with some color.

I've been taking classes and lessons to get the clay studio going in a good direction, and I will. I'm going to change things up quite a bit, but I don't know how I'm going to implement the changes. I guess that is why I'm continuing to learn.