EXHIBIT REFLECTIONS

Once the work is all hung in the hallway, small groups from each class go to look at the exhibit. They find their own, sketch it and find another's work to sketch.

They sketch in the appropriate box for a vertical or horizontal art work. I'll get more photos..

from the Artists Workshop

 EKES Student Art Exhibit will be open on October 19th. These pieces were selected by students (grades 1-5) from their 2105-16 portfolios and will be on display in the halls for all to enjoy.    They represent various media and interests. Students will go into the hallway, find a piece of work they like, and their own, and sketch both pieces as a way of sharing and observing art work.

               

Now that sketchbook cover art and portfolios have been completed, classes are adding work to their portfolios.  They sketch oak leaves then acorns on thumbnail papers. As they finish sketching, they move to the tables to work.  I have a template for a giant oak leaf. I trace it for the kindies to color; first and second graders trace their own. Both beeswax crayons and Slick Stix are used. Some like oil pastels.

Arranging various texture plates under a paper to rub to make an interesting composition extends the work around leaves . A pumpkin/jack-o’lantern can also be either traced or used as a texture to keep in touch with the season. Colored pencils, color sticks, crayons or bees wax crayons work especially well. Classes conclude with brief conversations about what worked, or didn’t, what they liked or didn’t like about the project.

We continue the topic with chestnuts, hickory nuts, and pine cones for observing, then sketching. These ideas are used for creating still life art. Water colors will now become a choice following a review/ introduction to how to use them.

I hope you can get in to see the art work in the hall over the next few  weeks. I am in the building with classes on Tuesdays and Fridays, if you would like to visit an art class. I can be reached best by email msansouce@sau16.org to share, and set a date to meet. 

Artist Workshop....
We talk of the first month of school- and for Artist Workshop it's only four classes- having flown by.
All classes have finished their 2016-17 Portfolios, and most have created their Cover Art for their sketchbooks,
 In fact, both KG and KD learned about" Museum Share ". They met the challenge, and adapted this first experience with putting post-its on a page and circulating through their classmates' art, and making smaller-than-thumbnail sketches of each other's work.  It is fascinating to watch  each respond to this challenge.
It may be the counting and arranging of post-its on the page that occupies, or the creating of undecipherable doodles, or it may be the precise following of directions to sketch all 16 pieces of art work on display, and even add the names of the artist, after asking each classmate how to spell his/her name !
Ahh, the satisfactions, and challenges, of the kindies!!!  And the clear message of how this age "meets the standards"  varies from student to student, assignment to assignment.

 For a wonderful , real Museum experience, consider visiting

the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. New Hampshire scenery is in the limelight

http://pem.org/exhibitions/192-american_impressionist_childe_hassam_and_the_isles_of_shoals

or NH's Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, where the new exhibit  Mount Washington:Crown of New England  opened on
October 1.

EKES Student Art Exhibit will be open on October 19th. These pieces were selected by students (grades 1-5) from their 2105-16 portfolios and will be on display in the halls for all to enjoy.   The art from KG & KD was done with a study of shapes, and the art of Josef Albers' "Homage to a Square".