This year we have 33 artists from Geer Park who have work featured in Dearborn’s Gallery Rally! Their artwork will be located in the City Hall ArtSpace connector building on April 6th and will be open from 10-5. There will also be 9 other galleries around Dearborn featuring artist work, and if you go and …
2nd grade artists have started to learn more about printmaking in the art room! They created a collagraph that showed a winter scene and printed many copies in cool colors and white. Then they chose a few of their prints that they thought were most successful and glued them together to show repetition. With …
On the day before winter break, second grade artists made a winter penguin painting that they were able to take home with them!
Second grade artists have created wire and plaster sculptures based on their movement drawings from earlier this year! They formed their person out of wire, posed it, and covered it in plaster. Then they painted their sculptures; many artists chose to use a splatter paint technique!
Second grade artists read a book that showed an angry monster. Then they practiced drawing different facial expressions by changing parts of the face like the eyebrows, mouth, and eyes. They chose one expression and drew their monster showing that expression. Then we talked about the difference between real texture and implied texture. Every artist …
Second grade artists looked at the artwork of Keith Haring and created their own “bubble-people”. They drew someone showing an action pose and posed for each other at their tables. They started with a quick gesture line drawing and then turned that drawing into a “bubble-person” like Keith Haring’s artwork showed. Then they colored and …
Welcome back to another wonderful school year! On the first day of art class this year, each class read the book “The Dot” by Peter H. Reynolds. Then they each created a monochromatic dot with the designs of their choice. We added all of our dots to the tree on the bulletin board outside of …
Second and Third grade artists in Mrs. Abu-Rus’s class created paper mache ice cream cones for their last project of the school year! They built their form with recycled materials and could put as many scoops of ice cream as they wanted on their paper cone. They used paper mache and paper strips to layer …
Second grade artists have been busy weaving in the art room! They decorated a paper plate and turned it into a loom by cutting notches and adding a warp string. Then they learned how to weave by making an over-under pattern with their weft strings.Some artists chose to add beads and fringe to their weaving …
Second grade artists looked at different types of insects in the art room! They learned about the body parts of an insect and then everyone chose one insect to draw and paint showing each body part and symmetry!