Ms. Gross's Art Gallery

The first step to this project was getting all of the air bubbles out of the clay. To do this, we threw the clay at the table, back and forth in our hands, and folded it on the table. Then we rolled the clay into a ball shape and placed it on a cardboard sheet. Next, we used two sticks and a roller to flatten the clay to less than the size of our thumb but more than the size of our pinkie. After that, I cut into the clay and formed a square about four inches by four inches. After this was done, we could make whatever design we wanted. We were required to add or subtract two things from the clay, so I added multiple shapes to form a flower. In order to make two clay pieces stick together, you score both sides, wet them with water, then stitch them together. When I was done making the tile, I painted it using tempera paint. We painted on wet clay.  Another thing you can make with clay is a plate. The students could make the plate into any shape that they wanted, add or subtr...

This is a hard project to describe. As a result, I will quote instructions and include pictures from a helpful website, listed below. The first thing we had to do was pick what colors of yarn we wanted and what pattern we were going to do. Next, we were given a small piece of square cardboard with two sides that were cut into.  We used white yarn to string the loom. To do this, we wrapped yarn into the first notch on the upper left side. We left a few inches off to the side and taped to the back of the loom. Next we were told to "carry the thread down to the bottom left notch on the loom and pull it into that notch. Bring the thread back over to the front by bringing it up through the notch directly to the right of the leftmost bottom notch. Continue doing this all the way across the loom." The next step was to begin weaving. We took yarn and put it through a needle, tying a knot around the needle to make it easier to weave. We weaved under, over, under, ove...

We needed the following materials to make these cards: piece of paper, Styrofoam, construction paper, pencil, pen, and paint. We drew a holiday design on the blank piece of paper with a pencil. After our design was completed, we traced the paper over the Styrofoam with a pencil. Then, we used a pen to outline the design on the Styrofoam. The next step was to use a paint roller to place paint on the stamp (Styrofoam). Once the paint was evenly spread across the stamp, we flipped it over and pressed it against another blank piece of paper. Once the paint was dry, we cut the print out and glued it on to a piece of paper. The final step was to write a Christmas greeting on the inside of the card. This project could be used to make cards for any holiday: Easter, Mother's Day, Father's Day, etc. For Easter, children could make an Easter bunny or Easter egg, and so on. It would be an easy and unique way to make cards for others.

The first step to creating this project was to choose a piece of construction paper that would serve as the background of the mosaic artwork and the silhouette. Our project had to be based on a season that was given to us; mine was fall. Next, we drew and cut out our silhouette. After that, we chose colors that would represent our season and glued them on to the paper. Once the mosaic background was finished, we glued the silhouette on top. This project could be used as a way for students to introduce themselves to the class. Students could choose their favorite colors to use for the background and draw a silhouette that describes them. For example, my favorite colors are blue, pink, and purple, so I would use shapes of those colors to make a mosaic design. My silhouette would be the shape of a book, because I love to read.

In order to create this project, we picked two organic shapes and two geometric shapes to trace. The group who prepared this presentation had already cut out shapes for us to trace and had painters tape on the paper. The next step was to trace each shape in one of the four rectangles, first with pencil, then with crayon. After tracing the original shape, we freehand drew a border for it. Next, we painted the shapes. The organic shapes were warm colors, the geometric shapes were cool colors, and the background could be anything you wanted. However, we weren't allowed to have the same color more than once in the rectangles. The final step was to remove the painters tape. An extension project for this could be a season theme leaf painting. Each of the rectangles could contain a different leaf design and the background could be painted with a different season. For example, a leaf could be traced then a snowy, sparkly white background could be added to represent winter. The size an...

The first step to this project was to draw in the pot and cacti with pencil. We were required to draw three different cacti and the pot had to have a Navajo inspired pattern. After we were satisfied with our drawing, we outlined it in sharpie. Next, we used watercolor paint to create a sunset in the background using warm colors. We also used paint for the ground. The pot and cacti were colored in with either colored pencil or crayon (what I chose to use). The last step was to create a border. We used a black piece of construction paper. We placed our cacti drawing on top of the construction paper and traced the outline of the page. Then using a ruler, we drew a second border 1/2 inch inside the first border. We cut the border out and glued it to the cacti drawing. To explore the Navajo nation and their art even further, students could make a loom project using their own design. Another idea would be to create a 3-D version of the cacti drawing. Students could be given a small pot ...