The 2013 year as has been very productive in the BES art room! If you have visited lately, you may have noticed a new look in our main office. With some of our fundraiser money that we earned at last spring's Art Extravaganza, we purchased poster frames to display student artwork in the office. Now our beloved Weaver T. Beaver has some beautiful artwork to admire each and every day! Isn't he lucky to be able to view the artwork of such a talented group of elementary school artists? I'd say so! I certainly know how lucky I am to see our students grow in their artistic talents and minds each and every week! Take a look at the work that is in the office right now. 
What is great about using poster frames is that I can change up the artwork and many different students can have the chance to be on display in the office. And it keeps things interesting for Weaver T. Beaver :)
We have some different artwork on display in the main hallway, too! Like I said, our students have kicked off 2013 with an artistic BANG! Take a look at some of the masterpieces that have been compelted since we have returned from winter break.
First grade finished their wild animal masks and here are some that are on display. They had the choice to create a lion or an elephant but most of them wanted to make a lion mask. These turned out so wonderful! You might call me crazy, but these were done with paper mache! Yes, thats right... first graders doing paper mache! But let me just say, they did a wonderful job and had so much fun doing it that I would not hesitate to do it again!
Below are fourth grade ceramic suns. In the previous post, you saw these in progress and now look how gorgeous they are! Full of color and emotion just like the Metapec suns of Mexico that we were learning about during this unit.
To the right, you can see the fifth grader's one-point perspective drawings. These are absolutely stunning and especially in person. Fifth graders learned the skill of creating depth on a 2D surface using the steps of one-point perspective. Once they were done with their drawing, they used their creative minds to add colors and details. So much talent right here! And they are so proud of their ability to draw in perspective, it makes me extremely proud! 
Our kindergarteners just finished learning the B is for butterfly! We learned about the characteristics of a monarch butterfly and created symmetrical butterflies by folding our paper in half, opening it up, painting on one side, and then folding it to transfer the paint to the other side. This was a great lesson on symmetry and mono prints! The next day, students used cool colors to finger paint their background sky and the third day they added details to their backgrounds. Take a look! :) 
And last but not least, first grade! They learned about tints and shades and complimentary colors when they created these hearts. They decorated the office just in time for Valentines Day and our Valentines dance here at BES!
I hope you get the opportunity to swing by and see the new look at BES in person! It's like an art museum around here! :)
