Deck the Halls.....AND the Tree!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....especially in the PDS Art room! For the past few weeks the children have been busy making these beautiful ornaments for our annual Ornament Sale. We hope you like them as much as we do!

 

 

Cool Weather....Cocoa Weather!

Cooler weather brings thoughts of holidays and hot cocoa for our PDS 4K students.....especially since we've begun making Christmas ornaments for our 2nd Annual Ornament Sale! Check out the pictures below of Mrs. McNeer's and Mrs. Malloy's kids, showing off their "Hot Cocoa" cups complete with pom pom marshmallows and pipe cleaner peppermint sticks. Don't they look yummy?

Fabulous Flowers

These glue and pastel drawings by our

 Second Grade 

are sure to brighten up your day!

 

 

 

Totally Awesome Third Grade 3-D Projects!

Pretty cool! Don't you think?

MMMMMMM! Fabulous Fruit!

Our Second and Third graders' mixed media fruit projects looked so yummy they made us hungry! 

Sixth Grade Bad Hair Days!

What do you get when you start with a cute candid playground shot, snip away all those flowing locks, and add a newly "zentangled" do? Some of the coolest Bad Hair Day pictures EVER!

 

 

First Grade Computer Fun

Our PDS first graders have been having lots of fun using Kidpix to practice basic mouse skills.

 Look at these happy faces!

All A'flutter in the Art Room

I wish you could have been a fly on the wall to see the excitement on the faces of our 4K children as they revealed their beautiful Symmetry Butterflies! The Art Room was filled with giggles, oooohhhs and ahhhhs and lots of great big smiles! Here's a glimpse of what Mrs. Ferguson and I got to enjoy.

 

Art Is.....

Art  is ....sautered....painted....welded...constructed...

stitched...etched....

sculpted....chiseled...woven....

 

Art is ACTIVE and EXCITING!

Get ready for a busy, busy year in the art room!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

A HUGE PDS THANK YOU

goes to  the

Crosstie Arts Council

 for its generous mini grant which allowed our Sixth graders to take home these sure to be treasured mementos of their years at Presbyterian Day School!

 

 

 

Art Day 2013

 

 

 

Fabulous Flowers

YUM!!!!

 

 

 

 

Entangled with Zentangles

The Fifth grade certainly became enthralled and  "entangled" by their zentangles! It was fun to watch their organized doodles grow and change as patterns evolved  from simple sketches to more complex designs.

And the Winners Are......

Congratulations to our District and State Art Competition Winners!!!!!!!

K4 and K5 District Winners
William, Ryan Dawson, Breland, and Josh
 



First through Third Grade District Winners
Catie, Homer, John Christopher, Katy, Eli, Farrar Kathryn

Fourth through Sixth Grade District Winners
Trent, Elizabeth, Jane Ellen
Makayla, Zoie, Caroline
Caleigh, Annsley, Austin
 

First Place District and
Second Place State
Jane Ellen and Homer IV

 

 

Congratulations!

PDS is SO proud of all our young artists! Our school recently hosted the District art competition, and our PDS representatives pictured below walked away with LOTS of awards!

District Art Competition Participants

K4 and K5

Grades 4 through 6

 

Grades 1 through 3

 

 





Insects Aren't ICKY...They're INKY!

 PDS Sixth graders' beautiful India ink and watercolor insects dispel the rumors that insects are "icky", don't you think? Here's a glimpse of their works in progress.

 

 

Celebrating with 4K

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!!!!!

The 4K Kindergarteners have had a ball celebrating the birthday of one of our favorite authors, Dr. Seuss! Here's a collage of their works in progress. We'll post pictures of the finished artworks soon.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!

With every drop in the temperatures lately our first graders have been dreaming of snow, so I decided the art room needed to help them out a bit! Their "flurry" of activity resulted in these adorable snowmen triptyches!

On The Road with Third Grade

This year each grade is exploring the printing process in one form or another. From handprints to simple one-color foam relief prints to more complicated three and four color designs, the results have been awesome! Below are some prints the Third graders made recently. We really liked the texture printing with bubble wrap gave the backgrounds!

Second Grade: Where the Action Is!

Since the Second graders have been learning about verbs, I thought it would be fun to give their study a little artistic spin! First, the children used pipe cleaners to make a poseable manniquin complete with beaded joints. We dscussed how verbs show action, and then the children had fun posing their manniquins. Finally, they referred to their manniquins as each child drew a picture of a person in action. Here are a few of their great drawings.

Draw with an EYEDROPPER?

Sometimes artists use commonplace items in not so common ways. Such was the case recently when our Fifth graders drew portraits with EYEDROPPERS and India ink! Once the drawings were dry, they carefully used brushes to add bursts of watercolor.  And yes, they are SUPPOSED to have elongated necks since we were painting in the style of Modigliani!

Painting by Modigliani - Our Inspiration

Now check out the beautiful portraits below!

 

 

 

Didn't they do a fabulous job?

Penguin Power

Little did we know last week when the Second graders made these adorable penguins that we'd finally have a blast of winter weather!



 

 





Happy New Year!

Just wanted to wish you a

Happy New Year

and

say

Thank you for supporting the

PTF

Christmas Ornament Sale!