Art Club Students are the heart and soul of Parkway!
Thanks to Mitzi Willis for all your help!
We had a successful day painting the windows at Parkway Elementary at the beginning of Thanksgiving Break. I don't imagine I could call the past week I have had a "break".
The first Sunday of Thanksgiving break, I met my Art Club Parents, students, and a few Teachers on campus and we got our creative juices flowing!!! We painted the front windows of the campus in festive holiday decor. I could not have asked for better volunteers. They worked their hind ends off for me and I am so pleased with the results.
We used plain ol' latex house paint. All in all, I spent about $300 on paint, mostly in pints. I only bought one gallon of paint and that was for the white. This will do the windows probably 2 times. I actually plan to use the left over paint to decorate the bathrooms across from my classroom in inspirational quotes. You know the ones...."be the rainbow in someone's day."
That of course will have to wait for Christmas Break!
Is there a crazier time in the Art Room than the week before Thanksgiving Break? I am trying to get all my lessons for the first semester finished, uploaded, and filed! PHEW! The work seems never ending when I have a raging case of the "I DON'T WANT TO's!" Many of my classes have finished the last lesson of the semester and needed just a short, 45 minute lesson to fill these last few days of class.
My 3rd and 2nd Graders are finishing up their lessons from a few weeks ago. My 4th and 1st graders are enjoying a one day, super quick lesson.
4th Grade Modern Landscape
This lesson from Deep Space Sparkle reviews our knowledge of WARM and COOL Color Families and CONTRAST. Students drew a modern landscape with oil pastel on black construction paper. We filled our drawing with chalk pastel, choosing a warm or cool color pallet for the land and trees and the contrasting family for the sky.
1st Grade Winter Owls
We watched the cutest video by Marshall Baya to learn more about the Snowy Owl.
After discussing the coloring, and addressing the issue of me coloring my eyes and beak wrong in the video below, we drew our owls with a black oil pastel and filled our owl with white chalk pastel for texture. We also did a little splatter paint over the top so our snowy owls could have a little snow!
As many of you already know, I LOVE my Deep Space Sparkle Membership and use it all the time. I found these lessons from the Australian Bundle and fell in love with them.
My 1st Graders enjoyed learning about the Platypus and drawing their little platypus on a rock. In this lesson, students watched a short informative video on the Platypus, we discussed the unusual features of this "extra parts" animal. LOL!
We drew it with oil pastel and painted it with our Tempera Cakes.
2nd Grade Ice Cream Sandwich Boxes
Second grade is busy creating their Clay Ice Cream Sandwiches. This has been a 3 week lesson due to the every changing school schedule. Gotta love that unexpected pep rally thrown in without notice!
This year for our EOY Art Show Ceramic Theme we will be Parkway Elementary Pastry Shop. All grade levels are doing a dessert of some kind. I'll make a separate post for 1st grade's spilled ice creams. They turned out so cute!!
3rd Grade Koala Selfie
Third Grade studied the Koala and his unique self. Students explored VALUE, Color mixing, and SHAPE. We drew our Koala's with oil pastel and colored our tree and leaves with 2 or more colors of oil pastels. Then, we painted out koala's by creating different values of gray by double loading our brush with black and white.
This was a 2 day lesson. The second day we added texture to our Koalas with chalk pastels over the dry tempera paint and painted our background.
Day 1 Video
Day 2 Video
4th Grade G,Day! Mate!
In this lesson we explored color mixing through double loading our brushes and Aboriginal Dot Painting. The first day we painted the background and started our dot painting. The second day, we finished our background, drew our Cockatoo and cut and pasted it to our background. This lesson tested the students patients with all the tiny dots they had to put into the background. Many, especially my boys, became frustrated with the tediousness of the task.
They turned out so cute and I let the students choose the color they highlighted their bird with.
I sent this picture to my Principal and said I found her portrait after STAAR Testing! LOL!
So I just returned to the classroom, high on paint fumes and free samples from our annual Texas Art Educators Association Conference. I always get so much from these few days of commiserating with like minded, artsie folks. It helps me remember I am not alone in my over populated classroom. That there are others with more difficult circumstances than I and that we are all KILLING IT! Art Teachers are a resilient and resourceful group of individuals and I am proud to be a part of their community.
I presented twice this year. My first presentation addressed the logistics of my annual End of the Year Art Show. I discussed how my preparation begins on DAY 1 of art class. I tell the students about the show, inform them they will not take artwork home for the entire year, and give them a few minutes to grieve the loss of bragging rights at home. After a mournful moment of silence I tell them all hope is not lost. I introduce them to ARTSONIA.
I have no affiliation with Artsonia, but I LOVE this resource for my students and parents. If you have not looked into this resource for your classroom, please do. It has been a game changer for my students and parents.
I have a 1st - 4th campus, so most of my students are familiar with Artsonia and how it works. Although it is an online portfolio as well as a fundraising sight, I mostly utilize it for students to go home and share their successes with their family and friend. This kind of takes the sting out of having to leave their artwork with me in their classroom box.
My husband is always so excited to help me do a classroom construction project (insert eye roll)! We took a weekend and designed these shelving units, on wheels of course, to fit 20 copier paper boxes per unit (40 boxes in all) for Classroom Portfolios. The first year, I tried individual portfolios, with each student having a folder of their own, but I almost killed myself filing all the artwork in the correct folders. This system requires my Art Club students to come in on their free time (usually rainy recess time) and file artwork into the classroom boxes. We just throw it in and sort it out at a later date. The week after Spring Break, students get all their artwork back and choose their 3 pieces they want to go into the Art Show. If they need to finish a piece, the next week I offer extra work time for those wanting to finish or refine artwork for the Show and Art Stations for those not working on finishing up pieces.
Banners are 6' in length, black bulletin Board paper. Artwork is attached with two dots of hot glue at the top of each piece and banners are stapled to the walls with 4 staples, one in each corner. I have 2 parent work days and set up stations in the hall and in the classroom for parents to glue artwork to banners. Banners are stacked in the Music room, FLAT to prevent the curling of the artwork. (Found this out the hard way the first year when I stored the banners by class, rolled up.) If we do not have enough artwork to fill the last banner for a class, I usually pull artwork from the NO NAME! NO FAME! boxes for that grade level.
Art Club delivers the banners to the Cafeteria for teachers to hang up outside their classroom the a day or so before the Show.
Teachers are happy to help and all the artwork gets hung. The only thing I will do differently this year is run a blue tape line along the hallways to mark the height for hanging the banners so all look uniform.
I host a silent auction at each show called the Empty Bowls Project. Many of your are familiar with this grass roots movement and know it usually involves a dinner. I haven't quite wrapped my head around how to incorporate this into the Show so we hold a silent auction where we sell student made bowls to raise money for our Backpack Program.
Each year my attendance has increased by about 200 guests. Last year's solid count was 650. This was from the sign in sheets and does not count the people who bypassed the sign in table. I estimate that there were about 100 that did not check in.
My second session addressed a clay Bobblehead from Elementary, through Jr. High to High School and was presented with two colleagues of mine. Wayne Gaddis, Pine Tree High School Art and Nicole Davis, Spring Hill Jr. High Art were my co-presenters. I offered the basic strategies at the Elementary level, Nicole offered advice for the Jr. High attendees, and Wayne brought it home with the advance skills for the High School teachers. It was great fun and we look forward to presenting again next year.
Nicole Davis, Spring
Wayne Gaddis, Pine Tree High School Art
I can not take credit for this lesson. All the glory and accolades go to Cassie Stephens and the genius that is she! She has an incredible video that I was able to use for my lesson. I had my students practice on Wednesdays for 4 weeks before they actually do the final product. Wednesday's are our PLC days, aka babysitting day. I see a class and a half every 45 minutes while our classroom teachers have an hour and half Data/PLC meeting. I see each group of students every 3 weeks, so these days are really a wash. We use this time to practice clay or other skills I need extra time to impart.
Wenzel Hablik was a Czech artist (1881-1934) who specialized in German Expressionism. His paintings of Utopian cities and imaginary universes are thought to have been inspired by nature. Hablik collected crystals and used them to inspire man of his painting. For this lesson, his painting, Sternenhimmel, 1909 offers a great example of fine art inspired by our universe.
This lesson is quite expressive and allows for multiple techniques to be used: splatter painting, shading, stenciling and composition. This is a lesson from Deep Space Sparkle.
I look forward to seeing all the creative universes the students will create!
In this lesson from Deep Space Sparkle students create a large flower, filling the paper and adding pattern to each flower peddle of the flower. Students learn the different lines and how to draw them, as well as being super creative in their painting techniques.
3rd Graders are going to love this lesson creating their own outer space compositions. We will learn about space through literature and science connections, preparing them for their creative spin on planets in space. Splatter paint is the highlight of this lesson. I mean come on! What kid doesn't love to make a mess with splatter paint!?!
This week 2nd Grade will be doing Watercolor Rockets. This lesson offers the opportunity to use a multitude of mediums and gives the imagination room to run wild! In this lesson, children learn to draw a simple line drawing of a space shuttle using a guide or a template with oil pastel or crayon. This is going to become one of my favorite units from Deep Space Sparkle! If you know me, you know I am a Sparkler through and through.
We had a blast our first meeting of the 20018-19 PTPE Art Club! We have started our first project and are super excited to display it in the hall.
We are creating a hot air balloon from a worms eye view. It is pretty exciting. We are talking about shading, perspective, and scale. We will display them on the ceiling of the Art/Music hall at Parkway for a bit and then they will not reemerge until the EOY Art Show. It will be one of my favorite displays I can already tell!!!!
Thank you for sharing your child with me this year. I have a spectacular group and am excited about the work they will produce.
The past two weeks we have been rediscovering lines and all they can do for our drawings. I am introducing them to the 1st graders and reintroducing them to the 2nd - 4th graders. It is always fun getting antiquated again with our favorites.
1st grade drew a Paul Klee inspired cat. I do not have pictures of this lesson. They are currently in a bag waiting to be uploaded to Artsonia. I have not had the upload lesson just yet with 1st graders. I usually wait to introduce Artsonia until the 2nd semester. They are still just learning the basics of the art room and to add another thing is just too much for my Littles.
Any of you who have followed me for a while know these are my absolute FAVORITE lessons to do. They are tried, true, and pretend art teacher proof! LOL!
2nd Grade had fun with line and pattern with this Paul Klee Man. Some thought he was a robot, others thought an alien, but we all had fun with the lines, shapes, and pattern. These were created with a black oil pastel directed drawing and painted the next week.
3rd Grade used the new Crayola Oil Pastels to create these beautiful Castles and Suns. We drew the castle with a white oil pastel the first day and the next they had to fill each shape created with the oil pastels. They turned out beautifully and I will always order Crayola oil pastels in the future. The colors are so bright and beautiful! On the black construction paper they really pop!
4th Grade also did a Paul Klee inspired drawing. I didn't tell them this but they did this exact lesson when they were in 2nd grade. The improvement was amazing! This is another reason I love having my students for 4 years in a row. I get to see the progression of their talent. We created this drawing with a black oil pastel on white paper one week and painted it with temper cakes the next week. These turned out so great!
So, during one of my 4th Grade classes this past week, I asked my students to put their pencils up, as in back in the container on the table, and this is what I got!
I almost peed my pants laughing so hard. You got to understand, these are my GT kiddos, the brightest of the bright. When I posted this on my FB page, my coworker explained these were her darlings from last year and "pencils up" means time's up, stop, look and listen!
She trained them well!
I can already tell, I am going to love this group of kiddos! They have a great since of humor!
After a brief sabbatical from blogging, I am back! I have gotten my Parkway Classroom ready and the kiddos had a blast last week doing a Painted Paper lesson. Lots of mess, giggles, and a few tears over a spot or two of paint on new school clothes. We had so much fun and I gave my janitor heart palpitations! HeeHee!
My Home Studio is READY!
Now all I need are students willing to have an adventure with me after school. In this studio we will explore all kinds of cool art techniques that we can't do in the regular classroom on my campus.
I love how it turned out and super proud of it.
This is me painting some old Victrola records I found in my closet....you know, cuz everyone just has some random Victrola records laying around. I mean, really? Don't you?
I reused some shelving I had left over from my gigantic TV entertainment center and organized my paints and papers in beautiful bins a friend of mine bought me over the summer. I had a little fit about a sale at Target that I was missing while on vacation and my dear friend took pity on me and went shopping for me! I think they are beautiful even if they were out of the Blue! :-(
If any of you were following my frantic Kitchen Remodel on FB you may recognize the apron hanger. It is the decorative piece that came off the top of the dresser we used as our kitchen island. We added 5 hooks and hunk it on the wall....not knowing that we screwed the pocket door closed. OOPS! Had to do a little readjustment on that particular screw!
My records came out perfect! I love this wall in the studio. I reused the drawers from the dresser as shelving as well as some random drawers I had saved in the attic for just this type of project. I think they have been up there for about 10 years! Every time Mr. Art asks me if he can throw them away, I say "NO! I have plans for those!......eventually...." And look how cute they turned out!
I have tons of cool stuff we are going to play with and can not wait to get started.
The walls are a little bare for my taste, but I plan to add artwork as we create it. Girl Child #1 is working on a painting as we speak to go over the aprons. Should be cute.
If you or someone you know is interested in taking private art lessons on Thursday evenings from 6pm - 7pm please let me know. Email me, FB Message me, call me, send me a smoke single.....I am married to an Indian you know! HA! Just let me know.
Classes are $120 per month, once a week.
I have ordered art kits from Arsel Art in Dallas to ready for our first class on September 6th.
I am going to offer private art lessons at my home coming in the Fall. I have had several parents ask about Summer classes and I have just not had the energy or the time to do a summer program. Between end of the year crazy town and teaching Summer School I have been just a busy in the month of June as I was in May!
EDIT: Have had to raise the grade level on this offer. I have many former students upset with me for cutting it off at 4th grade, so I have decided to take students up to 6th. This being said, I may have to split the age groups 1st - 3rd and 4th - 6th. We will see how many I have interested...
After School
Art Classes for Elementary with
Mrs.
Misti Scaggs
Grades
1st - 6th
Limit 6 Students
onetime
$30.00 supply fee
$30.00
per lesson
paid
monthly
Classes Begin Thursday, September 6th
from 6 pm - 7 pm
This
will be a studio type class offered weekly to students interested in furthering
their art education.
Misti
R. Scaggs
mistiscaggs@gmail.com
*Classes will not be affiliated with PTISD or my campus art program. Classes will be offered in my home.
Please let me know if you would be interested in you child attending weekly classes for extra art instruction.
Looking forward to this new adventure for me and my students.
Well, another year has flown by! I can't believe how fast it went. We had some laughs, some tears, and a whole lota fun! Here is a little video of some of the projects we explored this year. Towards the end of the year, as many of you know, the schedule gets tighter, faster, and more hectic. It became increasingly harder to get pictures in this fast and furious pace. So here is just a glimpse of our year.
I am looking forward to next year's adventures in the art room!
During our 2nd Grade clay project I learned quite a bit about the amounts of clay to use and how difficult the project was for 2nd graders. MAN was this a challenge!!! I learned that I had not prepped enough clay per student, that the project took longer than expected time wise and would require a lot more organization and prep from me in the future.
The First day
During the first day, we watched the video by Cassie Stephens on how to make our base and our fish. We created a large "rock" for the base with seaweed springing from the bottom and our fish. Paying close attention to the fact that this would be a 3D sculpture, we made sure both sides of our fish were matching. I had the classroom teacher come to the classroom about 10 minutes before pick up time to help mark the fish and the base with the student's classroom number, i.e - the student is in Mrs. Longs class, she would put L2 on the bottom of each piece belonging to that student.
The Second Day:
Students found their two pieces on a table I had set up in the hallway and place them on a paper lined blue tray donated to the art room from the science department. (BTW....I love these trays and we use them OFTEN!) Students had Color stations of Acrylic paint to walk between to paint their fish. I had students put their name and teacher's name on their paper before painting. When finished, I placed the wet pieces together with their paper on my rolling wire shelves to dry. The next week, I bagged them and sent them to their classroom to take home.
Things I learned from this lesson:
This lesson take quite a while. I had to nick 15 extra minutes from the classroom teacher to finish the first day's lesson. I think next time I will break it up into a 3 day lesson. Day 1 for the base, day 2 for the fish, day 3 for painting. Also, the hole you make for the stick to attach the two pieces together needs to be over-sized. When the clay dries and is fired the hole draws up considerably. I spend a lot of time shaving craft sticks with an Exacto knife so they would fit. You can always hot glue the stick if it is too loose, but let me tell you, shaving those things is NOT fun!
