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Butterflies and Weaves
Here are some beautiful pieces for you to enjoy! UE made weaves using colored paper and LE learned about butterfly anatomy and created butterflies out of clay and tempera paint. Key terms were...
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MS: African Masks
TommyAmaliaJulianDanielSophieMiddle school students were learning about Africa in their class so I thought it would be perfect to introduce them to the art of African masks. I felt very inadequate to...
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UE: Winter Trees
Okay, so it's not Winter yet, but it sure feels like it! I love bare trees and whenever I see them, I think of Harry Callahan's Chicago Lake Front photograph. This was a fun project that I also did...
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LE: More Castle and Sun
Triangles and circles and squares oh my! Such lovely things can come out of the simplest shapes. LE has been building their castles only using geometric shapes. They first built the foundation with...
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UE: Automatic Constellations
UE studied the works of Spanish artist Joan Miro. We learned that he was a Surrealist, which was an art and literature movement based on a person's subconscious. One of the techniques that Surrealists...
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UE: Through Georgia's eyes
UE studied the work of American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe. I always thought flowers were pretty, but not interesting enough as an art subject. Looking at O'Keeffe's work changed my perspective....
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Middle School's interpretation of Georgia O'Keeffe
Flowers, it's time for your close-up. Middle School students also explored Georgia O'Keeffe's work using a similar method as UE's, except with tempera paint. Very lovely.
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LE:POP!
Lower El. students learned about Pop artist, Andy Warhol, and painted his famous Campbell's soup cans. We talked about how Pop art was inspired by mass produced products and that Warhol turned them...
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MS: Optical Art
Middle school students are finishing up their optical drawings based on the work of French Hungarian artist, Victor Vasarely. Special thanks to Mrs. Smith for inspiring this lesson! The students were...
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Community Art Project
This year’s community art project was inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s Farbstudie painting. You may remember that I did this lesson with LE at the beginning of the year for the sole purpose of...
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Thank You Aaron Meshon!!
I am so excited to show these photos. Last year, UE students created personal maps that were inspired by RISD illustrator Aaron Meshon. Aaron found the students' work online and generously mailed us...
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LE: Cave Paintings
When I think of cave men, the "it's so easy, even a cave man can do it" Geico commercials come to mind. But a look at cave paintings prove otherwise. They are breathtaking, anatomically precise, and...
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LE: Aboriginal Dot Painting
Lower Elementary students are studying different cultures around the world. Artist and traveler, Brendan Burns, visited the class and shared about his experience in Australia and how he fell in love...
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UE: Totem Poles
I was always intrigued by totem poles for their beautiful craftsmanship and storytelling. Students are so great at coming up with stories so I was excited to do this lesson with them. They first...
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MS: Lichtenstein Portraits
Middle School students drew self-portraits in the style of American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. They learned that by isolating and enlarging a comic strip panel, Lichtenstein was both making a parody...
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Exhibit Q
Georgia O'Keeffe Flowers-UETop: Joan Miro Constellations-UEBottom: Butterfly Studies-LEOptical Art-MSGeorgia O'Keeffe Flowers- MSFar left: Chess board by Cooper Cardone-UE (so sorry I didn't get a...
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MS: Chinese Bamboo Painting
Middle school students painted beautiful bamboos inspired by Chinese brush paintings. Although we didn't have sumi brushes, which have the flexibility to produce variations in line, students used three...
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Community Art Project finished:)
This was a collaborative mural painted by all grade levels. You can read more information about the idea here.
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Cranes for Japan
MS students made lovely paper cranes for the children of Japan who were victims of the tsunami/earthquake. OshKosh is donating clothing for every crane that gets sent to them.Click below to find out...
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UE: Van Gogh Self-Portraits
One of the Upper Elementary students was really inspired by Middle School's landscape drawings and asked me if they could do the lesson too. I love it when students get inspired by each other! Rather...
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LE: Fish Bowl Still-Life
Students painted a fish bowl in the colorfully patterned style of French painter, Henri Matisse. Oreo, the class fish, was our muse:)
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MS: Wearable Paper Sculptures
One of the assignments I had at RISD was to make jewelry only using books. It was a fun project so I did a similar variation using magazine paper. I ripped a bunch of paper by color and demonstrated...
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End-of-the-year projects
LE learned how to make a mosaic out of cut paper. The theme was dolphins. As part of UE's Mesoamerican study, students made Aztec masks using cardboard and painted paper. Following the Inca tradition,...
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Now it's time to say good-bye...
Dear Quest family,As you all know, today was my last day. Next week my husband and I will be flying back home to LA where he will start residency at Harbor-UCLA and I...will be miserable without Quest!...
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Hello! It's been a while since I've been here:-) Even though I don't teach at Quest Montessori School anymore, my heart still has a big spot for those talented students. You can see what they're doing...
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