Art in Nature, Monsters and Calder Mobiles

The eighth graders had fun last week at the nature center doing a nature installation project inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. It was a little chilly, but there are some nice results.

They are also working on the "Monster Project" with the pre-schoolers. The pre-schoolers made simple monster drawings and then each 8th graders took one of the drawings and had to make it more "believable" by adding volume, color and an background. This project is based on the work of the artist Dave DeVries. They will continue to work on these when they have down time during the next few weeks.

We looked at the work of Alexander Calder today to prep for the project fair Calder Mobiles. The students will be working in pairs and practiced with the wire cutters and the box cutters and did some nice sketches of their ideas.