4th Grade: Williams & Stetson

4th grade: Williams
These students looked at Pablo Picasso's contour outline drawings. After practicing timed and blind contour drawings, the students picked a subject based on Picasso and created the outline. Like Picasso, the students chose to emphasize a certain aspect of their drawing with color.

4th grade: Stetson
Paul Gauguin was the artist that this class studied. We talked about how the artist 'escaped' to paradise and looked at his work inspired by the islands. The students created their own 'Tahiti' landscape using paint as well as collage techniques.

5th grade: CHAPMAN & POLINTAN

5th grade: CHAPMAN
Leonardo Da Vinci was the inspiration for this project. The students looked at Da Vinci's sketches of inventions and then created their own invention. The students also wrote a few sentences describing what their invention is. Like Leonardo, the handwriting is backwards and requires a mirror to read.



5th grade: Polintan
These students studied the work of Romare Bearden and discovered the art of collage. Like Bearden's work, the students used music as a theme in their work.

6th grade CASTRO & NIELSEN

6th Grade: Castro

These sixth graders looked at the work of M.C. Escher, specifically his tessellations. These tessellations were created by drawing a free-form shape and then 'finding' the creatures within the positive space (negative space creatures was optional).

6th Grade: Nielsen
These students were inspired by African masks as well as African paper beads creations. The students were excited to work with unique media and learned several techniques to roll paper beads.

"MASTERS" Art show

Students at Laurel have worked the past few months to create a Master Works art gallery in our own halls. Each class learned about a specific artist and created art based on what they learned. What an exhibition!

Student work used by Local business

Congratulations to Tierdri Savage! Her artwork was chosen by the Bas Bleu Theatre for their program jacket and promotional items. Her Statue of Liberty quilt square attracted viewers because of it's Warhol-like appearance and color choice. What and honor to have artwork from Laurel displayed in our community! Congratulations Tierdri!
(picture coming soon)

6th Graders participate in creating a community quilt

Students in Mr. Castro's class were chosen to create quilt squares for a community project. The quilt squares that these students created will be sewn together by local senior citizens and then be put on display throughout the community. The students used watercolors on a gesso-ed quilt square.

Laurel Places 2nd & 3rd in competition!

Congratulations to Mrs. Fogelberg's class for taking 2nd place in the Bulletin Board Contest! Students worked in class to create this masterpiece!

Congratulations to the third and fourth graders of Laurel who placed 3rd place in the same contest! The Wild Side of the Wall won money to be spent in the art room!