Fourth Grade Clay Monsters

Fourth graders learned about movie concept art and the artist, Mary Blair. Mary Blair worked for Disney as a concept artist and worked on a lot of movies we love like Cinderella and Alice in Wonderland. 

We also learned about movie designers today. Animators often sculpt characters from clay before animating them on the computer. We made our own clay characters by sculpting a silly monster! 

We first learned how to make a bowl by using the "pinch pot" method. We used this bowl as the body for our monster. Each student then designed their own characters by attaching details. For most of our students, this was their first time sculpting with clay. They loved it! 

Clay is messy fun! 

Look at our monsters in progress! 

After drying, it was time to paint our monsters. 

Take a look at a few of our awesome finished monsters! 

When you visit school, make sure to check out the display case. We are displaying some of our awesome projects! 

Kindergarten Silly Shape Monsters!

During the month of October, Kinder and First grade artists made silly shape monsters! This project was inspired by books written by Ed and Rebecca Emberley including "There Was an Old Monster."  

We practiced using shapes and lines to design our own goofy monsters. We used paint for the first time this year to add color. When painting we learned how to hold a brush, wash our brush when switching colors, and how to "tickle" our paper (because we're not scrubbing dishes when we paint). 

Take a look a some of our awesome kinder artists working on their paintings! 

She was being very careful to keep the paint nice and neat! 

These students were having a blast! 

Painting is fun in Kindergarten. 

These girls love to paint. 

This table was working very hard. 

Those are some silly monster drawings. 

We loved painting our monsters! Many of the monsters are now hanging in the main hallway at school! When you visit, be sure to check out their work!