In October the 4th/5th/6th grade created pointillism pumpkins.  They were only allowed to use primary colors to learn when layered they can create their green and orange.  They did a great job!

2nd/3rd Grade: Starry Night Pumpkins

The 2nd/3rd graders had a brief lesson on Vincent Van Gogh and then created their own starry night except creating a pumpkin patch in place of the original town.  This project turned out great and I loved their starry night drawings.

4th/5th/6th Grade: Spider Watercolor

The 4th/5th/6th grade has been busy this last month making a paper mache solar system.  They have been studying the solar system in class so we collaborated on this assignment.  As soon as we get that hung up in Mrs. Nelson's room I will post a picture.  It turned out pretty cool.

This week we were finally able to move on to a new project.  We learned about watercolor and several techniques we can do with it.  They used crayon/oil pastels to draw their spider web and spider.  The crayon resists the watercolor and allows us still to see the drawing.  They chose between making a cool or warm color watercolor.  They then practiced blending our colors to make a tie dye affect.  Once they were done water coloring and the paint was still wet we added salt on top.  Once the salt is dry you brush it off.  The salt created some neat effects on the watercolor to create an interesting painting.  I thought these turned out pretty neat!  They will be hung outside the gym for a bit for everyone to see.

High School - Art One: Boot Value Drawings

The high school art one class finished their first large project.  They created a value pencil drawings of a boot/shoe of their choice.  They learned how to manipulate light to create bright highlights and dark shadows.  They all did an exceptional job!

2nd & 3rd Grade: Water Color Landscapes

The 2nd & 3rd grade class created a landscape watercolor for their first project in art!  This is a great project for students to learn about foreground, middle ground, and background.  They drew their landscape with marker and then water colored over top.  We talked about appropriate warm and cool colors to depict the landscape.  They turned out beautiful!

Art 1- Project One: Word Shadow Mapping

This year has been off to a great start here at Augusta Schools.  Students in art have been busy learning basic art techniques.  The high school is now finishing up their final project of their value unit. After several drawing exercises the High School has just finished two drawing projects.  The first one was called Word Shadow Mapping.  They created a word out of white paper and set it up on another white piece of paper.  If set in the sunlight it creates shadows over the word.  They then drew the shadows of their word sculpture.  This project helps students understand value and how to make smooth transitions.   I was pretty impressed with the results of this project!

The word Rain and Imagine below are examples of the paper words they created as a reference for their drawing.

Meet the Art Teacher Mrs. Skinner!!

Hello Augusta!

I am Kelly Skinner the new K-12 Art teacher for the Augusta Schools.  I am so excited and blessed to be apart of such an amazing school system and community.  I am excited for this opportunity to work with your children to help them further their skills and knowledge in the arts.

I have decided that creating a blog would be a fun way for parents to pop in and check out what their student artists have been up too.  I am going to try my best to keep it as updated.

I plan to display junior high and high school projects during school concerts/activities as well.

Here is a little bit about myself.....

I was born and raised in Choteau.  I received my Art Education K-12 degree from MSU Bozeman. (Go Cats!!)  I married a Michael Skinner a local Choteau boy who also has many relatives in Augusta.  We both graduated from MSU Bozeman and then decided to make our way back home.  We have an almost one year old daughter named Hadley and a Maltese dog named Koby.  They keep our lives busy and full of joy.

I love working with all types of art mediums.  My favorite form of art is photography and ceramics.  You can find me in my spare time taking photos for my small business Kelly Skinner Photography.

I look forward to meeting you all!

Mrs. Skinner