Reptile Riley

Hi I'm Riley!

I'm going to show you some pictures in my drawing book.

This is a blue crested lizard that I drew.





Here is another blue crested lizard picture.

This is the practice picture I drew and painted for a jungle scene.

Stay tuned for more of my amazing pictures!

2nd Grade's Jomon Pots

Making a pinch pot

Rolling a texture on wet clay

Rolling a coil

Scoring the surface and adding a coil

Scoring

Clay is messy

Making sure the coil is sticking

Building a pot inspired by ancient Jomon pots

Look at those boys build

A masterpiece

Creating

A ceramic artist at work

Working carefully

All on board for sharing ideas

These are some of the techniques that the second graders have learned -

how to make a pinch pot

how to roll a coil

how to score and apply slip

how to add texture to their pot

These ceramic techniques are being used to build a pot like the ancient Jomon pots of Japan. Please google Jomon pots and discover the beauty of these 3,500 year old vessels.

Levi's recommendation

Hi, my name is Levi. I'm a 5th grader at OTES and I want to recommend a cool book series Vampire Knight. It's written and illustrated by Matsuri Hino, he uses the anime style to draw the figures. Check out "anime" on google images. Levi bidding you farewell and over and out.

Maine Dock Scenes with a Fauve Flair.

The third grade students are drawing from examples of Maine docks. They are transferring lessons from before on how to create a scene with a foreground, middleground, and a background. When the drawings are ready to be painted, they must use "wild" colors, as the early 1900 Fauve painters did. The students used brush strokes to describe the subjects they were painting. Take a look and check out some of the links on famous fauve painters.

Andre Derain

Hentri Matisse

3rd grade artists