Mary's Art Spot

My students have been experimenting with basic collage techniques. They have been working on cutting different shapes (circles, squares, tri...

The 3rd studio to get up and running was painting. This studio has 2 sets of expectations. One is for getting set up and one is for cleaning...

The second studio that I had up and running is the Architecture Studio (I make sure to use the word architecture and not blocks- working to ...

 First grade looked at a variety of prints by Henri Rousseau. They focused on how the animals seemed to be hidden in the foliage of th...

We started this project by doing practice drawings, using the maneqins. The students posed the mannequin and then practiced drawing the basi...

I had such success with the first grade Picasso's last year, that I did not change the project for this year. We looked at a variety o...

Here are the projects that my students did last year:  Joan Miro Portraits This year, in keeping with the idea of choices, I used the same...