Art Instructor Danica Papali

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Auction Item: Art Night Out Pizza and Painting

One of the Auction items at our school was Art Night Out Pizza and Painting class with Mrs. Papali!

So some of the most enthusiastic students who LOVE art won and it was a wonderful night.

The group was comprised of 4-6 year olds.

Students learned about Foreground middle background, brush sizes, as well as acrylic media.

Students reviewed color theory as we learned how to load a palate. They learned about highlights and brush stroke techniques.

I think that the final product turned out very nice!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

FAU Art Show

Victor and I will be part of a local Art Show at FAU:

Art Show
Art Show Press Release

Meet the artist reception, Wed. June 1st., 5:30-7:00, The Atrium(SR).

Danica Papali Acrylic "Las Pinas" and Victor Papali Macro Photography "Details".

We recently heard that Victor's image will be used in the show print promo materials, that was very exciting considering that Victor has never formally studied Art. As I always say he has one of the most creative minds, this is rare to see in or out of the Art field.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Art Auction Ideas for next year.

Auction ideas!I love this idea!!

Mosaics

http://www.mosaictilearts.com/project.html

Great class projects:

http://www.tbcs.org/page.cfm?p=1585

Mini works:miniprojects

More great projects

http://bulletinboardstoremember.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html

Thursday, April 28, 2011

2nd Grade Fish Illustrations Card Sale!

I am collaborating with our wonderful computer teacher who has so graciously offered to scan in 3 classes of Art work and print it out for a card sale!

The second grade class has been learning the names of animals in Spanish class so this is a Los Peces Art project.

This project reinforced concepts of foreground, middle, background, line types, color theory warm and cool colors, variety, endurance, composition and creativity.

First students sketched the art in yellow remembering to add foreground middle and background lines.

Rocks in the foreground and background, a big fish, little fish, seaweeds. Then students used black marker to trace the yellow lines and add dots for sand and different kinds of squiggly lines on coral rock.

Then students colored water (not the bubbles) blue and used 2 different blues, after that they were told to use warm BRIGHT colors to color the fish and sand.

I find that students are able to focus much better when given one piece of a project and only allowed to complete on piece at a time, they are much less overwhelmed and pace themselves much better.

This project was a fun one that focuses on process and theory behind the process, but it is always nice when process and product align!

I just love to see the hard work, determination then the confidence gained by the students when they finish with a strong piece of Art.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Art Room in April

Well things have been nusy as usual in the Art room. We recently had our last parent teacher meeting and an extensive display of projects. If you missed our Art display, here are some that didn't place but I thought were very strong pieces. You can tell these students were working hard on these posters and I am surprised that some of these didn't place as well. Oh well 7 out of 12 is pretty great, but the following are some of my personal pics.

I love the hand drawings here!

The color mixing was interesting here.

This was different and a lot of work, love the textures used here.

The drawing here is so lovely especially considering this is 2nd grade work. I also really LOVE the expression used! This is exceptional.

I think the only reason this didn't place must be that some pieces came off in transit. I just love the detail work and the animals in the scene, I also love to see that the work is the students own personal work!

This is another nice drawing very nice work!!

Students are working hard for an Art gallery show of their work next week at Go Van Gogh Studios in Lake Park.

There is much to be done before the big show, I will also be showing Art along with the students. Pictures will be posted next week on the show!

Today 5th Grade discovered music and moods we talked about the mood of line and color and using the two to convey the mood of the music on paper.

We started with Dvorak's New world Symphony and completed one piece with the influence of the piece. This student immediately almost naturally caught on quickly.

Students then had the chance to view peer work and interpretations of Art.

The next piece was a completely different lighter feel. I played the familiar Blue Danube waltz by London Philharmonic.

The students were able to convey a very different lighter style when hearing the waltz. Below you can see the cooler colors and very light feeling when the Waltz was played.

It was amazing to see the effects of the music on the students and the Art. I am always interested to see which projects the students gravitate toward and am often surprised to find the variety of strengths depending on media subject, etc...