This Week in Art! Sept 22 - 26

6th Grade Art:

Some of our Chihuly-inspired flowers, waiting to go up in the cafeteria!

Eek! We were so busy in art class today that we didn't get a student blogger in 6th grade! Today was our last day of art for 6th grade students in Term A. Monday through Wednesday was spent finishing up our Chihuly-inspired abstract flower sculptures, which will be strung up and hung in the cafeteria at school! You can view our Chihuly flowers on Artsonia here.

We spent Thursday and Friday uploading our final letter sculptures up to Artsonia here, and having one-on-one conferences with Mrs. Leban about our drawing challenge assignment. Students chose their favorite drawing challenge drawing to upload to our highlights gallery here on Artsonia.

7th Grade Art:
Today was the last day of art for 7th grade students in Term A. Students that completed their work early had the chance to make their artwork TALK using the Chatterpix Kids app on the art room iPads! Here's a little preview below:



"[This week,] We worked on our painting. Towards the end of the week, we did our drawing challenge conferences. Also, anyone that didn't finish their portrait had to turn it in the no matter how far they were on it."

-Kyle S, Period 5

8th Grade Art:

Max is making a minion-inspired glazed ceramic mug.

"In art class this week we began doing our pixel portraits. We then moved onto glazing our mugs/monster pots. Lots of kids thought that the glaze went on after you painted but then learned that the glaze is the paint! LOL"

-Max B, period 2

In other art news...
After-school crochet club started this week! If you haven't heard of crochet club here at Sandburg, now's the time to check it out! Mrs. Bensfield is the club sponsor, and they have all kinds of really awesome plans for this year!

Thanks for another great week!
- Mrs. L.

This Week in Art! September 15-19

Happy National Arts in Education Week!

6th Grade Art:

The letter "D" by Destiny!

"First of all I think art is awesome. Monday we finished up the paper mache. Tuesday we had an extra day to finish up our beautiful projects.Wednesday we learned about the awesome Dale Chihuly and his glass project.Thursday we learned a little bit more about Dale Chihuly. Now today we are following in Dale Chihuly footsteps we are starting a project for the cafeteria. Wish us good lucky peace out."

- Destiny W, Period 8

7th Grade Art:


Due to 7th grade being at Outdoor Ed this week, I was unable to snag a blog poster from the group for today! Seventh graders ended up having two days of art this week: Monday as a regular class day, and one day after that (either Wednesday or Friday) as a double-class period, which was spent marathon painting!

We're attempting to finish up our monochromatic portraits before the end of art next week, and get them photographed/graded/uploaded to Artsonia all before the last day. Fingers crossed!

8th Grade Art:

a pixel portrait in progress...

"Hello fellow Americans! How was your week? My week was awesome especially in Art class! All week we have been working on our pixel portraits. I know what all of you are thinking, this is hard but think again its really fun and not that hard! OMG I totally forgot we also shared our drawing challenge! its so much fun looking at other of my fellow classmates art drawings because there is so many good artist! That is all for today! Hope you have a good weekend!"

-Emily S, Period 1

In other art news...

Our very own Art Institute of Chicago was voted the #1 museum in the world by TripAdvisor! I love the Art Institute!



Mrs. Fullerton in the library got us a copy of the book, Face Book, by Chuck Close! His book is on this year's Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award list. I just love Chuck Close's work, and the pages with his different faces are super fun to flip through in thirds, which re-combine to make new awesome compositions and allow you to compare his techniques side-by-side.

Thanks for another great week!
- Mrs. L.

This Week in Art: Sept 8-12

6th Grade Art:

Sergei's blue letter "S" (left), and other 6th grade creations...

"This week in art we finished our paper mache letter sculptures. Then we started painting them. My sculpture is blue, and it is the letter S."

- Sergei M, Period 9

7th Grade Art:


"My project is creepy because I didn't realize that I had to crop it , I actually wanted to Photoshop it to make it look like a demon (Epic Fail)."

- Alex B, Period 5

This week, seventh graders tried to make as much progress as possible on their large monochromatic portrait paintings. Students are at a variety of different stages: some still transferring their designs to paper in order to be painted, while others are closing in on a finished portrait! Hopefully next week, we can use the little time that we have (it's Outdoor Ed week) to get everyone finished up!

8th Grade Art:

Owen's mug, waiting to be fired...

"On Monday, we worked on clay projects that I really enjoyed. I made a clay mug that is dessert themed. On Tuesday, we continued to work on the clay projects, and we had to finish today. On Wednesday, we discussed our new project the pixel selfie! On Thursday, Mrs. Leban showed us how to use our selfie in Photoshop and create the grid on our pictures so we can draw them! Art has been a blast! We are taking selfies, and making clay projects! Art is my favorite UA and would love to have it the entire year!"

- Owen D, Period 2

In other art news...


The Art Institute of Chicago has released a FREE app called "Unthink Magritte" in connection with their Magritte exhibit, which continues until October 13th. In this app, you are invited to share your impressions of Magritte's artworks through the use of images, words, or audio - and to share your "unthinks" via social media.



Next week is Arts In Education week! The NAEA (National Art Education Association) is inviting you to express why ART MATTERS to you via social media, and using their hashtag #naeaartmatters!




Thanks for another great week!
- Mrs. L.

This Week in Art! September 1 - 5

This week was MAP testing week at Sandburg, so art students only had class for one (double-period) day. Naturally, we didn't make a ton of progress on our projects due to this short time frame. Students are still eager to share their work and what happened in class with you! Enjoy our guest bloggers from each grade level:

6th Grade Art:


"In art class for this week we did paper mache over our cardboard letters that we previously made. Once it drys we are going to paint and decorate them different colors. I made a letter T for my name and I plan on making it green and purple (my two favorite colors).And on top of that art class is really fun and we (students) all like it!"

- Tylor S, Period 8

7th Grade Art:


"This week we worked on the painting value scale worksheet. The painting worksheet had us work on painting different shades of the same color. They turned out really cool! It looks like we used totally different colored paints. We also worked on our faces. Some people are coloring the back with pencil, or outlining their face with pen. Some are even starting to paint. I just finished outlining and I chose green for my painting color. It looks really cool!"

-Maggie C, Period 4

8th Grade Art:

"On Friday in art class we worked on our clay creations. We had a double period on Friday and some students got there creations finished and I can't believe the creativity in this class. Some students even finished and did a second project. I even made a killer snail! I can't wait until Monday to see the rest of the projects. :)"

- Christopher J, Period 1

In other art news...
I got a shout-out on Twitter from iPevo this week! We've won a bunch of stuff from iPevo for the art room via their Wishpool program. Our latest win was a supercharger for our iPads that charges four devices at once! I love this company!

Planning to make a how-to video for your art class? Here’s how @mrsleban did it with Articulating iPhone Video stand. http://t.co/mh0FEg9s1w

— IPEVO (@ipevo) September 4, 2014

Thanks for another great week!

- Mrs. L.