Dominican Artists Art Exhibit

The 2016 Art Exhibit was a great success! Every student from Nido (age 1) to 8th grade contributed their art in our exhibit. Each grade was inspired by a different artist and created individual paintings, group murals or sculptures to represent their Dominican artist. Visitors also had fun signing the chalkboard, creating drawings or coloring pages based on the artists, and sketching out the art that they saw in the exhibit. The 7th and 8th graders had a surprise visit by 2 of their artists, Pote Leche and Angurria, who came to class to talk to students and saw the art that was based on them.

Patchwork Trees

In my 7th & 8th grade Middle School Art elective, we practiced different sketching and media techniques by creating a patchwork tree. I told them to draw a tree and divide the paper into 6 sections, and fill out each section with the following techniques:

 When they finished sketching, they were allowed to use whatever medium they chose to color in each section, as long as by the end they achieved the patchwork affect.

Final Results: