8th Grade Claymations

The Iowa Hawkeyes spent 2.5 weeks creating animations. They worked collaboratively (or together as table teams) to think of a plot, make the set, make the characters, and take photos. The way claymation works is by taking photos of clay objects, moving them slightly, then taking another photo. This give the appearance of motion.


Here is the link for the claymation and below are some photos of the students working on them!

Here you see one group member using the iPad to take photos and the other members moving the characters

8th Grade pop-Art Inspired Paintings

The 8th grade enrichment group, the Ohio Buckeyes, recently learned about Pop-Art its histories and traits. One of the defining elements of Pop-Art is its use of color-bright bold color. 8th graders learned how to use color in an intentional way using color scheme.

Students chose an icon- a symbol that was important to them and drew it multiple times. Then they painted each section in a different color scheme.

One of the most famous works of Pop-Art, by Andy Warhol

Below is the student work

Painting for the very first time

Here are some kinder students painting for the very first time. Their paintings will be posted soon!

Line Dancing

3rd Graders learned about line and variation. They learned that there are infinite ways to draw a line by varying the size, length, direction and thickness of a line. This project was also a collaborative project where students worked as table teams and needed to make sure 1 main line ran through all projects and as a group had to decide on a common color for the main line; it was very democratic! Check em out, they look pretty sweet all together!

Perspective Cities

6th and 7th graders of the Wisconsin Badger enrichment group created their own cities using the perspective drawing method. Perspective is the idea that things get smaller as they are further from us and that things appear 3-d. This is not any easy way of drawing and students practiced and practiced to get it right. Below you will see cities from a traditional perspective, bird's eye perspective or 2-point perspective.

Second Graders Miss Summer!

In second grade we learned about the term self-portrait. After talking about facial and body proportions (pretty advanced stuff for 2nd graders) we gave the project a twist by making them underwater portraits. We looked at the photography of Sarah Lee to make some predictions on how we might look different underwater.

Underwater photography of Sarah Lee

Underwater photography of Sarah Lee

Here are student results!

What did Ms. Schubow do this summer? Tons of stuff! Check it out!

Welcome Back to the new 2013-2014 school year! I had a very relaxing summer that involved the usual bike-riding, gardening and art making with a few fun adventures thrown in.

While summer was great, I am very excited to begin this new school year! I have a feeling it's going to be Bucktown's most successful year yet.

As always if you need to contact me you can email me at vschubow@distinctiveschools.org.

Enjoy the photos!

I gardened of course, here is my tomato color spectrum

I visited the Garfield Park Conservatory, have you ever been there?

I moved into this cute blue apartment!

I took a watercolor class--it was very hard! Here is my second watercolor painting I made

I rode my bike down lakeshore drive. (No cars were present)

Oh yeah, and I went to cat circus. That's right, a cat circus. Feel free to ask me questions about what that means!