The art room is busting as the seems, literally!

We have approximately 400 students here at the dale, I keep all
Art project throughout the year so that we can make awesome art portfolio displays, however the process to get that done is one of organized chaos :) !!
The students and I are digging through the mass amounts of art we have done and I am storing them until our annual Night of the Arts on our fabulous drying rack. I have tied it together to make it all fit, it is quite a comical scene!!

It is awesome to see the students creative progress from their first project to current date!! Soon enough this massive stack of hog tied art projects will be beautiful displays at the NOA!

YAC 2013

Congratulations to the following students who will represent Ridgedale in the Annual All- County Youth Arts Celebration. There will be a reception held at the Monogalia Arts Center (MAC Located on High Street) on April 12th from 5-7pm. Please join us in celebrating the arts!

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5^th Grade::

Bailey Mitchell, Lauren Starkey, Faith Adams, Abby Pazeck, Kaitlyn Chipps, Sage Halbriter, Chase Sutton, Brighton Miller, Audrey Harki, Alex Lichvar, Gillian Schaeffer, Jackie Huffman, Kylee Frye

4^th Grade::

Jen Ruggeri, Leia Harper, Evelyn Roskos, Hunter Schaeffer, Zanon Signs, Mathew Clark

3^rd Grade::

Donavan Wilson, Jada McDonald, Hannah Marks, Katelyn Conard, Selena Felix, Hope Adams, Brianna Jackson

2^nd Grade::

All students for a collaborative sculpture, and Jacob Phillips individual work.

1^st Grade::

Gavin Hewitt, Emma Strakal, Caden Lipscomb, Nick Deprasporro, Ameila Sutton,  Amelia Phares, Hayden Bucklew

Kindergarten::

Cecelia Elliot, Logan Ross, Anton Boyce

I am so proud of all of our Artists!!

Chihuly chandelier

Our first Chihuly sculpture is complete many more to come :)

Thank You

Thank you to all of our students, parents and staff who have been donating plastic bottles. It is becoming quite colorful in the bottles.

Our Chihuly chandelier is coming soon!!

Gustav Klimt

Grade four artist recently studied the artist Gustav Klimt who is know for his symbolic painting entitled "The Tree of Life". Students used metallic paint to use a loose free hand painting style to create the symbolic swirls of the tree branches. They also used black and white to contour and highlight the tree. They embellished the tree with gems, jewels, and beads and added a mosaic paper border.

Picasso Portraits

Grade One artists recently finished their Pablo Picasso Portraits. They students viewed many of Picasso's drawings and portrait work. They discussed the style of the portraits and identified lines and shapes. Students used marker and water to create washes of color. 

To close the project students displayed their finished artwork under the document camera and talked ART-iculate and ART-smart about their work.

Here is a handout I gave student to earn "money" points and a display that now hangs in our art room. 

Peace Dove

Grade 3 artist created these beautiful clay symbols of peace. For this project students carved out a dove shape and applied a texture. When dry the students applied a blue paint wash and finished with a gold metallic blend around the outer edge. 

I have a dream...

Our 5th grade cluster group is participating in a community arts project. This collaborative painted canvas is currently on display at Arts Mon located on High Street. It is a part of the MLK celebration hosted by the group Downtown Morgantown. 

Our piece has collage prints of sheet music from the song Amazing Grace for the background, the foreground has free hand sketch of Martin Luther with the words "I Have a Dream".

Northern Lights

These northern lights inspired landscapes were created by our grade 4 artists. This project was created in two parts with lots of different mediums. The background is a marker and watercolor blend with sparkles in the moon. The tree trunks were created by  scraping plastic cards over white paper to get a great birch tree result. Fabulous! 

Winter Carolers

These were created by our grade 3 artist, too cute! They created round heads and little hats with mittens and topped them off with old fashioned sheet music of Christmas songs.

Winter Penguins

I am loving these winter projects. These penguins were created by our grade 2 artists. They used a wet on wet watercolor background with an added salt effect to simulate an icy feel. Then we added an adorable penguin skating on the ice!

Winter Trees

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These were created by our grade 1 artists. They blended tints of blue to create a cool background and use printmaking to create the tree and snow!

Rainbow Snowmen

 I love the cut little personalities they all have :)

Best Christmas Gift!

My favorite gift from a student this year, NEW SHARPIES!!!!! And just look at all those colors!