Middle School Self-Portrait Collage

Finding the right hair papers

Working on the face

Middle School students drew their self-portraits in pencil and then added a touch of color of their choosing. They copied the self-portrait and began making a collage of their likeness using different colors, patterns and textures, from torn colored paper and magazines.

4/5 Self Portraits

Coordinating the background

Adding pattern and color to the background

The 4/5s work with colored pencils as they study their image in the mirror and try to capture the proper placement and proportions of their features.

2/3s Painting Self-Portraits

Working on the clothes

Checking in the mirror

The 2/3s looked in the mirror to check that their work would look like themselves.

K/1 Painting Self Portraits

Painting the background

Checking skin tone

Finishing up

Each student works on an annual self-portrait. The k/1s began painting theirs looking in the mirror and observing shapes, colors and placement of features.

Middle School Tee Shirts from Africa

Modeling African Tee Shirts

Keela Dates, founder of Reason2Smile, a support organization for Jambo Jipya, a school in Kenya for orphaned and at-risk children, returned from her latest trip to Kenya bringing with her the tee shirts each African student designed for the Parker student who had made a shirt for them.
Our students were the ones with the smiles as they received their unique art work, put them on and modeled for the camera.

Middle School Finished Food Sculpture

Pretzels with mustard

Burger and fries

Ribs and fries

The food sculpture created by the middle school students looks good enough to eat!

4/5 Dessert Pictures

Drawing desserts

Coloring a cake

With the contemporary artist Wayne Thiebaud in mind, the 4/5s had fun creating their own sumptuous dessert pictures using heavily applied colored pencils on black paper.