7th grade Art Tech students have created animal hand puppets which have been starring in their short music videos.  The puppets were made with paper, cloth, cardboard, tape, wire, paint, adhesive googly eyes, yarn, and paper mache.  Students made mass uniform shirts for their creations.  The boy animals have ties.  Students shot video of their puppets against green screens or a puppet stage with a blue background.  Several students have shot video outside the art room for use as backgrounds when applying the greenscreen technique.  Students  edited their videos in the iMovie app on their iPads, and employed iMovie soundtracks.  On the name labels of the videos below, if there are more names than there are puppets, the final name is the videographer.  

Kindergarteners made symmetrical paper flowers by folding, cutting, and gluing colored paper.  Tempera paint was used to create grass, stems, and leaves in these artworks from the KB class. 

Third grade art students used Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software to make virtual models of dogs, as well as doghouses and pens, on their Chromebooks.  A selection of works by students of the 3H class appears below.

Kindergarten art students have learned to make symmetrical paper flowers by folding, cutting, and gluing colored paper.  Tempera paint was applied to the card stock base to the create grass, stems, and leaves in these artworks from the KE class. 

Third grade art students recently created virtual models of dogs, as well as doghouses and pens, with Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software on Chromebooks.  By using this geometry-based digital tool, students learned that lines can be used to form planes and that planes can become components of complex structures. A selection of works by students of the 3D class appears below. ​

Eighth graders in Mr. Bell's Art Tech classes used the Renaissance-based grid method to create free-hand pencil and ink drawings of the Stations of the Cross which they colored electronically on iPads. Illustrations by contemporary artist Shari Van Vranken served as models for this student art.

The 8th grade classes did such a good job on the Stations of the Cross project this year that Mr. Bell decided to show two artworks for each station, instead of just one, as we have done in the past. The artwork was posted on the playground for the school-wide Stations of the Cross during Holy Week.

Fourth grade art students have recently made virtual 3D models of sailboats in landscapes with Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software on Chromebooks.  During work on this project, students learned tool usage and design techniques.  Students made their sailboats and landscapes primarily with the rectangle, arc, and line tools. They used other tools to extrude (push-pull), move, resize, color, and rotate forms.  ​

Fourth grade art students have been making virtual 3D models of sailboats in landscapes with Sketch Up for Schools computer-aided design (CAD) software on Chromebooks.

The Tinkercad church models shown below were designed by eighth graders Cooper Worthington and Aaron Lin.  The resulting 3D prints also appear here.  Cooper and Aaron are members of our middle school robotics and CAD group.

Watercolor paintings centered around paper bird constructions were recently created by 2nd grade art students. Sections of the paper birds were drawn, cut, and assembled with glue.  Watercolored areas and linear crayon patterns in the sky echo the shapes of the birds and help unify the compositions.

The 3D prints and computer-aided designs of churches shown below are by 6th grader Christopher Tulis and 8th grader Lucas Mora. They are members of our middle school robotics and CAD group, which meets on Thursdays and Fridays.