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2012 Kindergarten Printmaking
Bugs!
The kindergarten Art class began printmaking for the first time. We discussed how printmaking works and that it is used in t-shirt design, wallpaper and gift wrap design to name a few. We chose bugs for our theme and the students looked at pictures of bugs as well as toy bugs. After drawing their bug they taped their . . .
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2012 Second Grade Printmaking
Bugs!
Click on the photo corners to view the second grade's printmaking project
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2012 Printmaking
Reduction Printing
The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth grade Art classes have begun their reduction printing lesson. They drew a design that had three sections so it could be printed and then printed two more times after being reduced each times. They . . .
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2012 Radial Designs
or Snowflakes!
Christmas vacation was over and it was time to get back into the school groove. The elementary students worked on radial designs or snowflakes their first days back at school. A radial design is a design that repeats in a circular . . .
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To Catch a Rainbow
An experiment in color mixing
Amy from Oklahoma sent our school a webpage with several science experiments on it. One of the experiments was creating a rainbow or the color wheel in a bowl.
Click on the link below to try the experiment at home. . . .
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2012 Oil Pastel Drawings
Seventh Grade Art
The Seventh Grade Art class recently completed a pastel drawing of their previous still life designs. Oil pastels are a wax, oil crayon. The students can build up thick layers of the crayons creating very bright, colored drawings. . . .
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2012 7th Grade Drawing
Pencil
The Seventh Grade Art class has been hard at work on still life drawing. They began the project sketching a still life in the classroom on newsprint with an H pencil. They were to draw 3-5 objects and fabric. They completed . . .
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2012 Paper Mache Decorating
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 . . .
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2012 8th Grade Paper Mache
The 8th Grade have started the school year creating paper mache head and shoulder sculptures in Art class. They started with a styrofoam head for the base and using newspaper, added shoulders and features. These were paper mached over . . .
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Choice Day Friday
Choice Day Friday was introduced in 2006 to the elementary art program and will be continued this year. Elementary Art students in grades three through six have Art two days a week and alternate Fridays. On Fridays we have "Choice Day". . . .
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Scratchboard
Websites
High school Art students may click on the link below to view
examples of scratchboard art and how-to tutorials.
Do not use Russ McMullin's hint of using xylene for working with
scratchboard. This product has strong fumes . . .
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Art Museums
Click on the links below to visit the Norfolk Arts Center, Josyln Art Museum, the Sheldon Museum of Art and the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) web pages. View their hours, featured artists and classes available.
Norfolk Arts . . .
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African Mudcloth
An Interactive Web Site
Click on the link below to go to an interactive site that will allow you to design your own mudcloth originated by Mali's Bamana women. Click on "Make Your Own Boglanfini" in the upper right-hand corner when you get to the site. . . .
