yes it does.....

Well, my artists, I hope you all know that it is absolutely not appropriate to write on the walls at school....that being said, it makes me happy that you feel this way, my anonymous fan!

Welcome to our creative world for the 2011-2012 school year!

Summer!

au revoir for the summer! practice your creativity...keep an open mind...and be kind!

whoot! whoot! whoot!....

Just a small sampling of the third grade artists exploration in ceramic sculpture!...We learned to properly attach clay pieces to ensure they would stay put, how to texture with all kinds of found objects, and most importantly, young artists learned how to use complex underglazing techniques to create all kinds of visual interest...enjoy!

Three dimensional ceramics.....

We bet you will not be able to guess what this is going to be!...Fourth and fifth grade artists are warming up their ceramic sculpting 'chops'.......we are really good with clay...it is one of our favorite mediums around here....

Clay, oh Clay....hooray!...

Third grade artists are learning the technique of properly attaching clay pieces to ensure that all of their hard work will be intact when it comes out of the kiln...their challenge was to sculpt a bas relief owl with a myriad of textures....stay tuned for the finished product, after we have our underglazing lesson!

Self portrait fish.....

Artists at Founders have been exploring the idea of metaphorical self portraiture and learning to work with water soluble pastels. They have created fish portraits that illustrate how they see themselves as they swim along in their lives!

Art and energy.....

Third grade artists have been studying the power of art to focus our hopes and dreams....we created art inspired by Indian torans...beautiful fabric embellishments traditionally hung in doorways to mark our passage into and out of the world at large. Torans can celebrate anything from the day of the week, to the birth of a new baby. We created ours to help bring the energy of our hopes and dreams our way, while learning the principle of symmetry and how to use watercolor pencils in a painterly fashion.

Arcimboldo slideshow.....

Guiseppi Arcimboldo....

Fourth and fifth grade artists have been studying the work of Giuseppi Arcimboldo, a painter of the Renaissance who is most well known for his portraits comprised completely of collections of items such as fruits, flowers, animals, sea creatures and more. His more traditional work is not well known, but he was greatly admired by his contemporaries for this well known body of work. Some felt this art was the result of a crazy mind, but you have to take into account the time in which he lived. People of the Renaissance era loved puzzles and riddles. We will never really know, but we were very inspired by his art. Stay tuned for a slideshow of our work, inspired by Giuseppi's portraits!

An artist takes a new perspective....

Some Founders artists have been experimenting with working at easels, instead of flat on the tables, to see if this new perspective broadens their thoughts about how they see their art while it is in process....

grey scale mandala....

A wonderful example of the grey scale mandalas we created, this one by Cameron.Can you count how many shades of grey he included?