Glass Creations...
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Glass Fusing Fun Session 1
2. Happy Faces...
3. Great Results...
Friday, March 22, 2013
Session 2 & 3 Glaze Clay Animal Banks
After they finished glazing their animal banks they started to design the cover for their own personal sketchbooks.
Check in later to see the finished shiny animals :-)
Monday, March 18, 2013
Art Club Helps Prepare for Art Show
The Art Club is beginning to help prepare for the first ever Upper Dauphin Area Elementary School Spring Art Show coming at the end of May.
They are hard at work painting grade level exhibit signs for display throughout the school.
Elementary Art Club Members and Middle School and High School Art Helpers work side by side!
They are hard at work painting grade level exhibit signs for display throughout the school.
Session 1 Glazes Clay Animal Banks
Art Club Session 1 Clay Animal Banks: Glazing
Art Club Members patiently waited for their clay banks to come out of the kiln. Their clay animals are now white and called Bisqueware: permanently hard pottery. This week they used colorful glazes (glaze is made out of glass, water and minerals) to paint their animals. Their projects will be fired in the kiln again to melt the glass and make a shiny finish. Check out the progress and hard work in the photographs below.
Painting glaze on their animals...
The clay animals await their firing in the kiln. Their color is dull and chalky, but not for long...
The animals inside the kiln
TADA... The finished animals with a happy shine.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
UDA'S Got Talent Show
All Art Club Sessions proudly produced a Talent Show display for the UDAES Talent Show that happened at the end of February. They did a great job and decorated the stage beautifully for the big night.
Clay Piggy Banks Session 3
Art Club Session 3 designed their Animal Banks. They continued the creativity by creating even more exciting animals, even imaginary animals and combination animals. Some banks looked like a combination of two or three animals put together. So cool! This session a dinosaur, a unicorn, a fox and a chinchilla was created.
Art Club Helpers helped Art Club members and gave them good ideas while helping solve tricky problems.
Check out the progress and hard work in the photo's below:
Thanks for visiting!
Art Club Helpers helped Art Club members and gave them good ideas while helping solve tricky problems.
Check out the progress and hard work in the photo's below:
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| The Lady Table hard at work. |
Jeffrey designing four dinosaur legs.
Noah's Rat/Fox combination :-)
Kelsey and her pet Chinchilla
All smiles for successful projects!
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| The Unicorn! |
Furry Chinchilla!
Jaguar! Roar!
Thanks for visiting!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Clay Piggy Banks Art Club Session 2
Art Club Session 2 made their creative clay piggy banks last week. They continued the creativity by creating even more exciting animals. This session a frog, a money, and a baseball was created.
Art Club Helpers again, each led their own group. This was a big success because everyone helped each other and gave each other good ideas while helping solve tricky problems.
Check out the progress below by clicking the link: Clay Banks Session 2 Photographs
A slideshow of the photographs will be uploaded soon so check back!
Art Club Helpers again, each led their own group. This was a big success because everyone helped each other and gave each other good ideas while helping solve tricky problems.
Check out the progress below by clicking the link: Clay Banks Session 2 Photographs
A slideshow of the photographs will be uploaded soon so check back!
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Clay Piggy Banks Art Club Session 1
Art Club's February project is Clay Piggy Banks. This project will take up the next two months because ceramic arts goes through an important process:
1. Clay project is designed
2. Clay dries to bone dry clay called Greenware
3. Greenware is fired in Kiln to Bisque Ware
4. Bisque Ware is painted with Glaze
5. Glaze Ware is fired in Kiln for glaze to melt into shiny colors.
6. Completed Project :-)
**A long process that is worth the wait!
Art Club Helpers were greatly appreciated and used throughout this project. Each Art Club Helper was assigned a group of four Art Club Members to teach step by step techniques to create their own unique piggy bank.
I love how each Art Club Member's bank is unique and different. Some students even turned their banks into other animals like cats and penguins, even a car! Creativity was flowing. Great Job!
Below is a slideshow of photographs during the clay creation:
1. Clay project is designed
2. Clay dries to bone dry clay called Greenware
3. Greenware is fired in Kiln to Bisque Ware
4. Bisque Ware is painted with Glaze
5. Glaze Ware is fired in Kiln for glaze to melt into shiny colors.
6. Completed Project :-)
**A long process that is worth the wait!
Art Club Helpers were greatly appreciated and used throughout this project. Each Art Club Helper was assigned a group of four Art Club Members to teach step by step techniques to create their own unique piggy bank.
I love how each Art Club Member's bank is unique and different. Some students even turned their banks into other animals like cats and penguins, even a car! Creativity was flowing. Great Job!
Below is a slideshow of photographs during the clay creation:
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Mural In UD Sentinel Newspaper
The Readers' Reef Mural Project & Art Club Article and Photographs in Upper Dauphin Sentinel TODAY Tuesday, Feb. 5th. Grab your copy today!
A brief article is online: http://www.sentinelnow.com/news/news%201.html
The print version includes more photographs, a panorama photograph of the mural and much more! Check it out.
Thank you for the support!
Ms. Bowman
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