Clear, with a low around 53. West southwest wind 5 to 7 mph.
Friday
Sunny, with a high near 85. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 13 to 18 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 29 mph.
Friday Night
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4am. Mostly clear, with a low around 61. Breezy, with a south wind 13 to 18 mph becoming north northwest 7 to 12 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
The 8th grade have finished the structure part of their sculpture and have begun the final decorating phase of their project. They applied a base color of acrylic paint to their project and let it dry. They emphasized the features using a variety of mediums such as glue, glitter, colored sand, combinations of these or anything else they could think of such as Tiarra's broken CDs.
The tissue paper sheets are folded down to an inch and half width
This can easily be cut with a single snip of the scissors
By angling the cut...
You can have zigzag hair
Each hair is individually glued on
Destiny applies her hair
Pondering a hairstyle
Morgan is creating a shorter hair style
Tanner is applying gel glue to the edges of his stripes and then...
he applies the colord sand to add depth and texture
The tissue paper sheets are folded down to an inch and half width
After completing the face it was onto hair. Most of the students chose tissue paper for the hair. It offers a lot of colors, ease of use and looks good. Students took a sheet of tissue and folded it until it was about an inch and half wide. This way they could cut a strand of hair with a single snip of the scissors. By angling the cut they could produce zigzag or wavy hair instead of straight. Starting at the neck the strands of "hair" are individually glued in place with stick glue one strand at a time. The student works the hair up a row at a time until they reach the top of the head. It requires a lot of patience on the part of the student.
After the hair is completed the students checked for anything else that needed to be added before signing their name and school on the bottom of their sculpture.
Tiarra's finished project
Checking the hair
Detail of the glitter and sand eyes
Those teeth are broken CDs
More broken CDs on the shoulders
Signing her name and Elgin Public Schools to the bottom
Morgan's Sculpture
Kighler's
The sculptures were to express a strong emotion such as Brandi's sad face.
