JVE's 3rd Grade creates Mixed Media Finger Puppets!

JVE's 3rd Graders have been creating finger puppets with style!  Students were given the job of fashion designer.  Students got to design their hair, clothes, and the accessories!

MSE's 3rd Grade Landscapes

MSE's 3rd graders looked at Matisse's patterns and designs as well as landscape paintings by the masters (such as Bierdstadt).  They then created their own landscapes with patterns.  Students identified foreground, middleground, and background.  We also talked about color patterns vs. shape or line patterns.

Students were excited to use their new markers and oil pastels on these brightly colored pieces! 

MSE's 4th Grade "I am Lion, Hear Me Roar!"

MSE's 4th grade students have finished their Laurel Burch inspired lions!  Students drew their lions (or lionesses) and backgrounds.  The artwork has a foreground, middleground, and background. In order to create a foreground, many students used the overlapping technique with leaves or grass.  The subject matter (lion) is positioned in the middleground, whereas the jungle, city, etc. is in the background.  Students were creative with their surroundings.  They used jewel tones for their leaves and ground as well as their animals!

Recently 20 works from Monte Sano and 20 from Jones Valley Elementary were submitted to the Huntsville Museum of Art's Children's Art Gallery. They will be hanging there now until April 5th, 2012. Artworks from both schools include Kindergarten's non-objective line and shape paintings, paintings of Laurel Burch cats by 4th grade, fish prints by 4th grade, self-portraits by 3rd grade, oil pastel landscapes by 3rd grade, Day of the Dead glue drawings and paintings by 2nd grade, Where the Wild Things Are drawings/paintings by 2nd grade, and much, much more! Come on out and view all our fun works of art!
Both schools also recently were submitted into the Panoply Billboard Art Contest. Twenty works of art from both school (five for each grade 1-4) were entered from Monte Sano and Jones Valley. Wish us luck in the contest!

We won the Symphony Orchestra Art Contest! Yay! Two students from Jones Valley and two from Monte Sano will be awarded on stage in front of the entire symphony and hundreds of 4th graders on February 23rd. Each year, hundreds of students enter this contest from all over North Alabama. Only 9 fourth grade students' works are selected to be featured in the programs.  (Winners' artworks are printed in the Symphony programs for the 4th grade annual symphony production.) This year's theme was baseball and symphony. We had some very creative drawings! Great job, everyone!

Our Dream Rocket art project has been received by Jennifer Marsh and is online! Jennifer says she loves it. Check out the picts of the Monte Sano painting at dreamrocket.org!

YAM (Youth Art Month) is finally here! Two students from each school (Monte Sano & Jones Valley Elementaries) have been selected to represent our schools in this fantastic exhibit featuring children's artworks K-12 each year at the Huntsville Museum of Art! We will soon have an artist reception for featured artists. If you are interested in taking your child to see other students' works of art, please go some time during the end of February to view these wonderful pieces from so many talented students!