Guest Blogger:Sabrina

I really enjoy doing art. At school it is my favorie special(subject) to do. In art class I enjoy drawing and doing free art. When we do free art I like to draw and make things. I thought making clay pots was really nice. After we made them they were put in the kiln and we glazed the peices. Also I thought narrative art was really fun.

Guest Blogger: Sara

What we are doing in art right now is finishing up working on clay. When we paint it we use this stuff called glaze. It is the same thing as paint almost but when we put it on our sculputers the color that comes out is different than how it will look when we are done. It is really fun. We jusst finished our Mesopotamia unit and we are about to go on to Egypt. It shuld be fun!

Do you need hands to paint? Not when you have toes...

Here Phil uses jeans to paint on, and toes to paint with. Don't let limitations stop you from making art. Anything is possible.

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1897311

OK, Phil's videos are great. Candy art for valentines day!

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&gid=106835&vid=1872362&b=1

Phil Hanson- watch how he makes his art

This artist makes art that is conceptual. You need to think about it to understand what he is trying to get across. You can see it on two levels. One is just the picture or portrait that he is drawing. The other is to look at what he is working with for materials. Why did he choose those materials and not others? Who is this person, and how do the materials relate to who that person is and what they do in their lives? Each is carefully selected to make a point.
For ex. Mother Teresa is often refered to as a light in the dark, one who is beautiful and gentle and kind in her work with the homeless and the sick. He makes her portrait out of dandelions which are yellow and could mean light, are beautiful to look at and what could be more gentle than a flower. Compare that to the portrait of a fire fighter, burned into wood that is constructed to look like the framework of a house or the picture of a homeless man painted by walking all over the picture, his feet leaving the paint that creates the portrait.

Scroll down each picture to see what he was trying to say about each piece of art, and to see the video of how it was made.

http://philinthecircle.com/daudi.html

Miss Ropple's Identity class from last term

The kiln is fixed. Your clay is fired. Please come after school and finish your projects.

New Term Sculpture Students

Please bring in a metal coat hanger and a knee-high nylon stocking for a future project.

Last Term Clay Students

Your clay has been fired. Please see Mrs. Davis about staying after (or some other arrangement) to glaze your work!