Zentangle

5th Graders have been hard at work creating Zentangles.  A Zentangle is an abstract drawing created using repetitive patterns, it is designed to be fun, relaxing and accessible to all. Students started on a small square of paper and continued to work larger until they came up with these creative designs below.

Coil

5th Graders have been working on learning the coil process in clay.  Since students at Hassan have art only once every 5 days; it is difficult to finish clay in 1, 60 minute class period. The clay would be too dry by the time the next art class rolls around, so students spend one class with the clay practicing rolling out coils, scratch and attaching the coils, as well as decorating the coils.  The practice time gets the ideas flowing and allows students to be confident enough in their coils to create something great!

Students had to design a basic and advanced drawing of their coil sculpture (starting with the most basic for time purposes, then moving onto their advanced drawing if they had the time.) The practice time and proposal drawings helped them visualize how long it would take to create a coil sculpture.

After the clay gets to the Bisqueware stage (Fired once in the kiln) the students are able to glaze the clay with their choice of 3 colors, here are some student examples.

Youth Art Month

I haven't kept up with my posts in a while, and there is a good reason too! I am the Youth Art Month Chair for Minnesota and this past weekend was the Youth Art Month Student Exhibition for Minnesota.  We had 98 Entries from over 40 schools across Minnesota, and a great turn out.  You can check out all the photos on the Youth Art Month Flickr stream HERE.

Here are a few photos from the show

MN Flag Representative Slade D

Hassan Student entry Breanna S

Best in show winner Haley C

MN State Capitol Rotunda

Elementary runner up Cal M and Mrs. Jacobson from Hassan

Hassan student entry Ethyn B

Super finish!

Third grade painted their clay superheroes and they are currently on display in Hassan hallways near you!

Fifth graders are finishing up their 1 point perspective roads, each student had to have 3 buildings that go towards 1 vanishing point

Clay Clay Clay

It has been a big couple of weeks with clay as students are finishing clay coil pots in 5th grade and starting pinch pots in 1st grade. Here are some finished 5th grade coil pots.

and first grade pinch pots!

Second grade has also been working on replicating the work of Claes Oldenburg, our December artist of the month.  Claes is best known here in Minnesota as the artist of the Spoonbridge and Cherry

 Bowl of cherries

 Fruit Bowl

Bacon and eggs, waffle (Bottom right), Pie (Top left)

5th Grade Coil Pots

5th graders have been working on coil pots.  They all started with a chunk of clay and had to work that clay into a long rope like coil.  After working the coils out, they stack them up and create these fantastic coil pots.  They will be glazing them this week and sent into the kiln early next week!

Here students are glazing their coil pots to be fired later.