Build your own video game with Bloxels!

Do you know about #Bloxels ? #faystonschool #gradesfiveandsix #artandtechnology

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Fayston Art on INSTAGRAM! A New Way to Follow Fayston Art

#faystonschool #kindergarten ten circles and five lines

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Do you use Instagram? This photo editing and sharing app is a fun way to see what your friends are up to and where beauty and creativity exists all around us.  Now you can see what is going on in the Fayston art room by following Instagram username artclass_allday. 




Click on the camera to see more images from Fayston and Waitsfield artists and follow artclass_allday on Instagram!

Paper relief sculptures and photography

Fifth and sixth graders experimented with creating three-dimensional sculptures out of our most basis two-dimensional material : white drawing paper. We discussed different ways to create paper relief and then artists experimented with applying these techniques to their sculptures. We set up a photography station, using an overhead projector to supply a bright spotlight. Students used iPads and basic photo editing to capture different views of their sculptures.

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Online Art Games

Click here for Online Art Games! 

Hour of Code meets Art Class

http://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/play

Today we learned how to use the program Math Art to draw cool designs using simple coding. This is a great example of how math, technology and art can come together.  I really had to dust off my math thinking cap to remember what I know about angles in order to complete these tough puzzles. Clink the link above to explore coding and try Math Art or some other the other Hour of Code games on the Tynker site. 

Paul Klee Castles

Click here to watch my Google Presentation about Swiss artist Paul Klee.

First and second graders are looking at Paul Klee's painting Castle and Sun and creating their own using geometric shapes cut from colored paper.

What is the difference between geometric shapes and organic shapes? 

West African Mud Cloths

For the next two weeks, Jordan from Shidaa, a West African drumming and dancing troupe, is our artist-in-residence at Fayston School.  Students will work with Jordan to learn about his home country, Ghana, and practice drumming, dancing, printmaking and storytelling.  

First and second grade artists are learning about Mud Cloths, a type of printed fabric made in Mali and other West African countries.  We used this interactive site from the Smithsonian to create our own virtual mud cloths and inspire our own painted mud cloths.  

Mud Cloth from Mali

Our mud cloths 

Kindergarten Photo Project

Kindergarten artists shared the photos that they edited and looked for similarities and differences between their original photos and the edited versions.

Kindergarten Photography Project

Kindergartners used our new iPads to take pictures around our school.  They used viewfinders to scout out their shots.  We looked for examples of patterns and textures, close up and far away objects and looking up and looking down.