Mrs. Minnick’s Art Room

Jasmine’s oil pastel flower inspired by artist Georgia O’Keeffe, was chosen for the June image in the 2010-2011 school calendar! Congratulations!

Jasmine's O'Keeffe Flower

Kindergartners are  working hard learning how artists use line, shape, and color to communicate ideas. We are curently working on a seasonal project for Autumn.

First grade just finished creating expressive paintings to better understand why primary colors are so important.

Second graders are working on creating collages of a favorite food that use a variety on lines, shapes, colors, and textures.

Third graders are working on abstract art with a focus on a sport or physical activity.

Forth graders are getting ready for their field trip to The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (September 30th).

Fifth graders have been working hard to create paper sculptures inspired by the artist Frank Stella.

Hello, I hope everyone had a great summer! The 2010-2011 school year is about to start and I am so excited to be beginning the year in my classroom (unlike last year’s cart)! So stop in and say hello this Monday August 16th at 6:00pm during Fountaindale’s meet the teacher night.

Hope to see you there!

Here are a few photographs from this year’s art show. A special congratulations to Alexis French for winning 2nd place in the 3D art  category with her Japanese carp sculpture!

Kindergarten and 1st grade created Autumn collages

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Fifth graders worked on contour line still life drawings, 2nd and 4th are learning about printmaking. Pictures of their beautiful prints will be coming soon!

This year one of our first units was inspired by the artist Laurel Burch. Take a look at these fabulous examples by 5th grade students.

Hello! I hope everyone had a great summer and are ready to come back for the new school year. Meet the teacher night will be held August 17 from 6 to 7 pm.

There have been a lot of changes at Fountaindale this year, one of which is the art room is temporarily going to be a third grade classroom. I will be operating from a cart and bring art to students in their homeroom classes. We hope that this will only be for a short time.

I will be posting my new schedule and important art dates, as soon as I receive the information.

See you soon!

Third grade fish sculptures air drying.

This has been the first year we have had our kiln up and running for the entire year. So far, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders have all had the opportunity to work with earth clay. Third grade just finished creating fish sculptures and 5th is currently working on coil animals.

 Coming soon completed animals and fish pics!