Handmade Books: Grade 6

Grade 6 Bookmaking: This was the culminating project in our Grade 6 interdisciplinary unit with Language Arts, Social Studies, and Visual Arts. Students created handmade books to contain their short stories, myths, letters, poems, and their art works from our Hero's Journey Project (click here to view the mosaics)

The Process

The Book Covers

The Final Books

Gesture drawings take Form

How do artists use traditional processes to invent a new and expressive style of art?  6th grade students studied movement, form, color, value, and positive and negative space to transform gesture drawings into 3D wire and plaster sculptures.

Expressive Portraits: Grade 6

How do artists use color and color scheme to emphasize emotions? Grade 6 students studied complementary, analogous, and monochromatic color schemes to emphasize contrasting emotions and expressions in portraits. The final works are composite two-view portraits.

The Individual Portraits

The portraits cut and combined

The Final works folded for a different-angle-different-expression effect

6th Grade Mosaics: The Hero's Journey

The 6th Grade Finished Mosaics are a part collaborative unit with Language Arts, Social Studies, and Visual arts.  (Click Here to View the Process)