ART CANOE

K-3rd graders created Owl paintings during our after school art class. They focused on working out their compositions on an 18x24 inch canvas and mixing acrylic paint.

My 6th grade advisees are creating gifs using inspirational quotes from important African Americans. We are discussing how the quotes personally and communally resonate with our advisory. It is important to have students understand how digital content is created. It is their first time creating gifs.

4th and 5th grade students are creating 3-D birds and bugs based on a biome. After studying the different biome students draw a bird/bug that has attributes for survival in that biome. 

Congrats to all student artists from Quest Academy!

  7th Graders learned about Jose Posada last week. Some of the calavera imagery seen in today's popular culture and Day of the Dead traditions was derived from and influenced by Jose Posada's satirical printmaking. Posada's Catrina print that influenced Diego Riviera's murals and calavera imagery in Day of the Dead popular culture. by Jose Posada José Guadalupe Posada (1851–1913) was a Mexican illustrator known for his satirical and politically acute  calaveras . Deriving from the Spanish word for ‘skulls’, these  calaveras  were illustrations featuring skeletons which would, after Posada’s death, become closely associated with the mexican holiday  Día de los Muertos , the Day of the Dead. Most of these  calaveras  were published by the press of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo which produced inexpensive literature for the lower classes, including thousands of satirical broadsides which Posada illustrated. Through this focus on mortality Vanegas A...

Students are creating digital ofrendas based on an important person or relative using Adobe Spark, Google Draw, or Pixlr. Below, students looked at a Thinglink to understand all the parts of an ofrenda.