SPRING ARTS SHOWCASE!!!

SPRING ARTS SHOWCASE

ORCHARD GARDENS PILOT SCHOOL 

THURSDAY, May 25th 

5:00-7:00pm

Come walk the corridors,

view the amazing student art work, 

and stay to enjoy performances from 

music, dance and theater!

K0-K2 Strand Hungry Caterpillar 

1st grade Chalk Robots

2nd grade Laurel Birch Line & Patterns Cats

3rd grade Monet Landscapes  

3rd Grade Mixed Media Owl Biomes

5th grade Sumi Ink Exploration

Middle School Strand Russian Nesting Dolls

6th grade Folk Art Landscapes

6th grade Egyptian Profiles

7th grade London Postcards

Middle School Elective Modigliani Portraits

Wall-E: Bots :)

1st and 2nd grade students showed off their stamping skills with this robot project.  After watching the above video clip, students brainstormed all the different shapes robot could be and their special functions.  Students used these shape ideas to design their own robot using cardboard, cans and other recycled objects.

After stamping was complete, students used pastels to color their robots in.  

The results are spectacular!

Laurel Birch Cats, meow!

Drawing, oil pastel & water color

Final display, meow!

Save the Date: Winter Arts Showcase 12/17/15

WINTER ARTS SHOWCASE

ORCHARD GARDENS PILOT SCHOOL 

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17th 

5:00-7:00pm

Come walk the corridors,

view the amazing student art work, 

and stay to enjoy performances from 

music, dance and theater!

1st grade VanGogh Inspired Still Lives

7th grade Romero Britto Painting

1st grade Paul Klee Cats

Middle school elective Jasper Johns inspired American Flags

5th grade Clipper Ships

6th Grade Cowboy & Cowgirl Portraits

2nd grade Geometric Cityscapes

1st Graders Take On VanGogh

Still Life with Roses and Anemones
1890
Vincent van Gogh

It all started with wanting to use leftover paint from previous classes.  There wasn't enough to make a full painting but certainly we could make petals and flowers.  Ah-ha!  1st graders would begin a study on Vincent van Gogh and Still Life painting.  We began by designing the flowers and using a variety of brush strokes to make the petals.  After folding our papers into four sections, we experimented with circles, straight lines, and even inventive combinations to make the flowers.   

Day two consisted of making the vase, table and background.  I had the students section off their painting by using a 9"x12" to block off the top of their paper thus leaving room for the flowers and allowing the vase to be on the bottom half of the paper.

Beautiful!!!

Pumpkin Patch

Oops, I meant to post this one in October but time got away from me.  Kindergarten and 1st grade students worked diligently making these awesome pumpkins.  Students learned about color mixing and value as they drew from observation.  We talked about the basic circular shape of a pumpkin and how there are ridges on the shell.  We then mixed red + yellow to make orange by dipping the paint brush into both colors and letting the brush do the mixing on the paper.  We strived to make each section of the pumpkin a different value of orange.

After the pumpkins dried, we then turned them into jack-o-lanterns!  Students practiced their cutting and collage skills and spooked up their pumpkins.

We then placed the jack-o-lanterns onto a pumpkin patch and used oil pastels to create grass and wind.