Mary Walling

The mural at our lower school is finally complete.

I worked with 5 amazing art students for this project. We started it in early April and could only work on it on Wednesdays at the end of the day.

I sent the administrators a few designs to choose from and they really li...

The art elective class is new to our schedule this year. The class ranges from 8th grade to 12th grade.

I wanted to give them the opportunity to create something they wanted to for their final project. I gave them a few options to choose from so they could have a starti...

The end of the year is always fun! We are finishing up our final project for the year and on to finals. For 9th grade, their final project was monochromatic self-portraits. I go over monochromatic each year, but change up the project for each grade level. 

Each group re...

Taking the train to work everyday gives me a lot of time to scour the internet or mostly pinterest.

I ran across this website when I was looking for more rigorous projects to do for my 8th and 9th grade elective class. I wanted to incorporate building something 3-D and...

Moving on to a new topic, "COLOR THEORY!" 

 These are always my favorite projects to do! Yes... I do them also :)

We started out with a 1-point perspective worksheet. Since I have not gone over perspective with them, I wanted to start with that to make sure they understo...

This project turned out better than I expected.

I thought they were going to have issues with expanding out a painting. Deciding what the background should be, what they should include in the middle ground and what the foreground should consist of. 

They started off with...

This project is one of my students favorite. We just finished this project in the 10th-12th grade art elective class. As always, I was amazed by their talent and effort for this project! 

I introduced them to graffiti and the different types. They were amazed by how may...

Art II (11th grade) is always an interesting class. Half are REALLY into art, the other half, not so much.

This is a tough crowd to get involved in a group art project. I wanted to give them a project where everyone was involved. I wanted to let them know that if, just...

OH! The fun with naming a project. This is our second project in the color theory topic. We are working with primary and secondary colors only for this project.

The photo below is my example I showed the class. I always get questions about what they can do for coloring....

The 11th graders really enjoyed this project. They felt that it allowed them to draw what they wanted, things that they were interested in. This allowed them to make it a more personal project.

So, I started them off with creating a list of 25 - 50 items that desc...