Slice me off a piece of that!

4th graders and 3rd/4th graders learned about artist Wayne Thiebuad. He is most well known for painting desserts, especially delicious cakes.

 

 Students learned how to draw cakes so they appeared 3-Dimensional versus flat. Students learned about shapes versus forms. Students also learned how to create a cake stand that appeared to be a form and not a shape. Then students took a slice out of their cake and left the rest show you. Enjoy their mouth watering results.

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Fine Arts Night!!

Fine Arts Night is coming up! Thursday May 10 from 6-730 is when you can come to school to see all of the amazing arts that are happening here at Bucktown. If you want to submit a work of visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture) to be displayed, start working on something! Let Ms. Schubow know if you need help, or if you would like her to hold on to something for display! More announcements about Fine Arts Night to come!

Middle school exquisite Corpse

Middle school students created an exquisite corpse, which is a collaborative drawing game where three people draw on the SAME drawing without seeing what the person before them drew. The results are often weird, fantastical and surreal! Check out their funky results!

Micrography Portraits

Mr. Toth's 7th grade class learned about micrography. Micrography is creating images with text. It began to work around the 2nd commandments restriction of images and then expanded into an art form. Here is an early version of micrography

After tracing their portraits from the projector onto the whiteboard students began to fill their portraits with positive text about themselves. Students faces are filled with things they like about themselves, books they've read and their friends. Students then chose their favorite characteristics about themselves and wrote those words in the background of their portraits.

I am so proud of these gorgeous and meaningful portraits! Click on a portrait to zoom in and see the text students chose!

Tessellation Portraits

Bucktown's 5th/6th grade class embarked on a complicated 2 part project. The first part of their project they created a unique tessellation. A tessellation is a shape that fits perfectly together with itself with no gaps or overlap and can repeat forever. We looked at the artwork of M.C. Escher as an example:
After completing the tessellation students created their self portraits. They were created by tracing an image of them that was projected on the white board. As a class we talked about color schemes and students choose a warm color scheme (reds, oranges and yellows) or a cool color scheme ( greens, blues and purples) for their portraits and tessellations.

They did an amazing job, enjoy!

Dinosaur Landscape

Bucktown 3rd graders learned about background, middle ground and foreground. They know objects in the background are TINY, things in the middle ground are medium sized and things in the foreground are HUGE.
Check out their prehistoric landscapes!