The school year is coming to a close and the 8th grade class is getting ready to graduate. But....before they leave us they will be painting an "Andy Warhol" style self-portrait. As a tribute to this years class, these portraits will decorate the halls the last couple weeks of school. Good luck and God Bless the class of 2010.

5th and 6th graders are finishing up their still life paintings and pastel drawings. Check out the display in the main hall to see some of their amazing work.

Lights, Camera, Action!!

Junior high students are busy getting ready for the "First Annual St. Helen's Film Festival" Here is one of the short film entries.

I'm seeing the lights of Hollywood in someones future!

Ready, Set, Action!!

Junior High students are getting ready to become film makers. Each student worked on character development and story ideas for a stop motion animation film. Students are pictured here working on making background scenery and characters out of modeling clay, paint, legos....etc. Filming and editing start next week!!

Crazy about Kandinsky

First grade students had the opportunity to learn about Wassily Kandinsky (they love his name). They each are creating their own version of his famous painting "Squares with Concentric Circles" and I think Kandinsky would be proud.

Better the second time around

St. Helen school has been recycling paper this year and part of that program is to save the scraps in the art room. So, this week we have put those scraps to good use by creating paper pulp. The kindergarten classes made bowls out of the paper pulp and the 3rd grade class was able to make some beautiful paper. This paper will be used later in the year for another project that they will be doing. Now that's what I call recycling!

Were starting 2010 with some still life drawing exercises that will lead into our painting unit. Pictured are some 5th grade artists sharpening their artistic eye by drawing from observation.