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Weekly Summary: 1-point Perspective Drawing – Electrons and Neutrons – Art

Weekly Summary: 1-point Perspective Drawing – Electrons and Neutrons – Art

For the last 2 weeks in Art, both the Neutrons and Electrons have been working on the concept of perspective in drawings. During the first period, we discussed how implementing concepts like 1-point perspective and vanishing points can help make

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Weekly Summary: Neutron and Electron Art

Weekly Summary: Neutron and Electron Art

This week in art for both Neutrons and Electrons, we finished up our compositions that work with negative space as both the foreground focal point and as the background.  Everybody’s projects turned out wonderful! Some students had a little extra

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Art: Beginning Clay

I had such a great time sharing clay with the kids. They all did their best! It was wonderful to see their different approaches to the same directions. I shared a method of hand building to create vessels. We smacked

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Art: Introduction to Photography

This week we started the photography portion of the Muons Art Class! We started with some quick background, by asking everyone to think of an example of a photo they have seen in the past week. We talked about photography

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Art: Wax Resist Painting

Today’s art class for Neutrons, Electrons, and Quarks focused on wax resist painting with watercolors. We used Spirals by Louise Bourgeois as our inspiration and attempted to execute a similar technique. We used tape to create a grid (or other negative space)

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Art: Isometric 3D Drawings

Today in art, Neutrons and Electrons worked on drawing 3D structures using isometric paper (if you wish to print a few pieces of the paper, a template is here).  We talked about using the grid lines to help give the appropriate

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Art: Mud Mud Mud

A flooded path? Mounds of mud? Loads of squish and slosh and squelch? Today’s art was revelling in the (literal) chiling beauty of SO MUCH RAIN on the forest trail. Within seconds of arriving at this giant puddle we had a pair

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Art: Embroidery

🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳 🥳Super happy to see all the kids tried this project! We used needlepoint fabric, embroidery thread, and big needles to create designs. I showed them 4 examples of the possible directions they could take their project.

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Art: Terracotta Pots

In keeping with the seeds theme, we decorated little terracotta pots, filled them with soil and planted tomato and/or kale seeds though only a few were keen on kale! We talked about where each of those plants made seeds, they

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Art: Dripping Paint

We dripped paint in honor of the dripping rain. The kids drew an umbrella and covered it, and all the space underneath, with removable tape. We then mixed and dripped various colors from the top. When removing the tape and

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