Middle School Still Life Drawing

Focused on a single vase

Achieving a sense of volume

Working with charcoal

Gray scales

Pencil and charcoal at this table

Gray scales

Coffe pot taking form

Beginning a unit on still life drawing, the middle school students chose objects from a simple set-up and began with rendering them with soft pencils, then charcoal, they gray scale pastels. They will work these exercises into a final pastel composition.

Empty Bowls Evening

 Bowl selection

 Deciding which one to purchase

 Appreciating the monster bowl

 The soup was delicious!

Eighth graders serving

After all the weeks of bowl making, vegetable gleaning, soup preparing and rehearsing, the eighth grade hosted Empty Bowls. Families came to "buy" the bowls their students made as well as many donated by Buxton School students. Eighth grade students spoke about issues of world hunger, a speaker from Joseph's House spoke about issues of local hunger and homelessness, soup was served and bowls were admired. It was a hugely successful evening!

4/5s Craft Historic Figure Paper Masks

 Matching the eyes

Trimming the features

 Collaborating

Ready for the mouth

Amelia Earhart

Anne Frank

As each 4/5 student studies a specific historic figure in the classroom, they are making a paper mask of their person in art class. By cutting, folding and gluing they are coming up with remarkable likenesses while learning about symmetry and the possibilities of paper.

2/3s Paint Changing Landscapes

 Figuring out the colonists' mural

 Drawing the cityscape

Working on roads leading to a bridge

 Native American Landscape Beginning

The Long View

Finishing Up the Farm Mural

Colonist's Farm Mural

The City Mural

Native American Mural

Kids explaining their work to visitors

Flowers of appreciation to RCHS

In collaboration with the 2/3s class work on changing landscapes, the students painted large scenes of life in the times of the Native Americans, the Colonists and City Dwellers. These murals will be followed by a fantastic look to the future through the eyes of the 2/3s. All these works will be exhibited at the Rensselaer County Historic Society in mid December.