1st Grade: Apples on Tablecloth

1st Grade students completed their apple themed projects for this year!

We explored pattern, color mixing, painting, drawing and cutting/pasting. This is always a fun project for me and the students get excited with the outcome!

4th Grade : My Favorite Place in America Drawing Contest

4th Grade students participated in the Northampton County Bar Association's "My Favorite Place in America" drawing contest again this year. Art work was completed and sent off for judging last week!

Here are some quick snapshots of the work that students completed for the contest. I am so proud of all of the hard work our students put into this contest. I'm praying that the judges can see their talents and that Holy Family School can get a few winners this year!

As a teacher it is always rewarding to have a student take a step back from a piece they deemed "finished" and realize they can further improve upon it. Below, see how much the student improved her work!

Nazareth Center for the Arts : Dimensional Painting

My students at Nazareth Center for the Arts are working on a Dimensional Painting. We are creating forest scenes and adding paper mache and other mediums to build up a dimensional, textured background.

5th grade One Point Perspective Aquariums

F5th grade students learned about one point perspective and used that knowledge to create Aquarium scenes!

We worked together to set up the page and create the tiled floor in one point perspective. Students were excited to see how they could create something with depth!

Then, students draw their own sea life on a separate sheet of paper, colored with colored pencils and cut out and glued to the sea life into their aquariums.

Look out for these displayed at our Art Show in April!

7th Grade Saint Sculptures

7th Grade Students have begun working on their Confirmation Saint Sculptures!  This is a fun traditional project that our 7th graders complete each year for our Heavenly Hallway All Saint's Day Celebration. Check back for updates and photos of their progress!

September 2016 Front Window

Here are some photos of the new front window display I hand painted for September 2016! 

"Jesus is the core to a great school year" 

Nazareth Center for the Arts

Our July lessons ended today. It was a great month! I had a new group of students and we did a drawing intensive month. We learned different techniques to improve drawing skills and to improve how we see. 

Here are images from our July month of lessons...

Drawing horizontal and vertical lines to practice accuracy.

Drawing circles to improve control.

Practicing the elusive elipse 

Cylinders

Putting cylinders and bowls together to make a bottle

Mug and shading 

Organizing objects by value (black to white) 

Shading

We ended the month by creating a fun monochromatic painting!