We Need Your Lids

The art room is looking for circular lids from any of the things you might recycle or throw out.

~ All sizes and colors ~

• Metal lids from sauce or jelly jars
• Plastic lids from butter or cool whip containers  
• Soda bottle caps
• Laundry detergent caps
• Non-stick spray can caps
• Spray paint can lids

Please wash them off and send them with your child.

There will be a collection box outside the art room.

Room 3 in Pod 1.

Thank you,

Mr. Scarpulla and Fox Hill Art

Here are some examples of what we might do.

Winter Art Contest

Project: Create an abstracted/stylized design that elicits feelings of the natural world in winter: wind, snow, ice, starry sky, etc. This is a competition. Winning designs will be enlarged to 4 foot x 6 foot banners in outdoor displays. Twelve double-sided, weatherproof banners will be affixed to metal frames driven into the ground on the town common and will be on display during the months of December and January. Parameters: Limited Color Palette: So that the various banners are unified as a set, use white, blues, silver (grays), and gold/copper. You may use a minimal amount of one other hue (such as violet) as an accent. Medium: Any, really. Drawing, painting, collage, design, photos Dimensions: Working on paper of 8 x 12", 12 x 18", or 16 x 24" would work well. Objectives: Convey an abstract feeling/mood through your selection, creation and arrangement of shape and color. Apply skills with tools and techniques of Illustrator and Photoshop together Create strong visual impact

Clear fish design

The fourth grade created there own fish based on observation.  They were allowed to mix and match different shapes and designs to create a fish. They then transferred there fish to a piece of plastic using sharpies to outline and color in.

Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles

The fifth grade students have finished up making bubbles using chalk.  The effect is very realistic when they keep control of the chalk, add color and add a shine to them.

Drawing shells

Drawing shells in third grade.  The third graders will use their drawing as reference so that they can create a mono-print of their work.

Back up and running

Grade 5 drawing coral.  The fifth graders drew coral by observing actual pieces.  They will eventually transfer these drawings to a piece of foam.  They will use that foam drawing to create a print of their coral drawings.

Welcome Back and News!

Dear parents and students,

Welcome back to school.  This year we have a new theme in the art classroom.  Our theme is “Water.”  This theme is going to drive all of our artwork this year.  The artwork that your children will be creating will be related, directly or indirectly to water.  You can check in on what is going on in the art room at the Fox Hill Art blog.  The address of the Fox Hill Art blog  is scarpullafh.blogspot.com.  This is a place where you can see what your children are working on currently in my classroom and see what is going on in other grades as well.  This is especially important for the fourth and fifth grade parents because I keep a lot of their work for the Fine Arts Night which takes place on the same night as the spring concert.

This year I will be in for the first week of school and then be out on leave to take care of my son Zachary.  He is about 5 months old now and I am excited to be home with him.  I will be out until November 4th.  I am excited to have Ms. Lauren Vigneau as my substitute.  Ms. Vigneau has a background in art and has already been working in the Burlington schools as a substitute.  Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.  scarpulla@bpsk12.org or 781-238-5663.

-Mr. Scarpulla

Fox Hill Art

Op art

This student has really challenged herself in this example of Op art.  She has blended 2 different illusions and has worked very hard to make both work together.

Op Art

The fifth grade has been working on optical illusion art or "op art."  This type of artwork is very challenging.  Many of the concepts are very advanced but the fifth graders are taking it in stride.  You can see the results of their hard work and comprehension in these 2 samples.

Work coming home

I will be sending work home with all grades. A lot of the fourth and fifth grade works will be coming home all at once.  This is due to the fact that I have kept the majority of their pieces for display at the fine arts night.  Please be on the lookout for your child's artwork.

Fine Arts Night

Fine Arts Night

Fine Arts Night

The fine arts night went very smoothly. It was quite hot but everyone did very well.  All of the 4th and 5th graders created some amazing artwork. 

BHS Raffle of the arts

So many snow days!

Welcome back from vacation.  After sooo many snow days, we have been playing catch up in most every class.  This week we have finally begun to use clay in the third, fourth and fifth grades. I have a few pictures to share from the fourth grade classes.

 

Sun designs

The third and fourth graders have been working on making a sun design. First step was to color a piece of paper with oil pastels. They were to use only cool colors. Next they were to design a sun on another piece of paper of the same size. Last they were to tape the design on top of the colored paper and then trace over all of their design.  The effect that is created on the back of the paper is very exciting.  Ask your child what happened when the paper was separated.

Birch trees

The second graders have been working hard to create some realistic looking birch trees.  They used a square of cardboard and black paint to create the birch trees. They then used 3 colors to create the ground and 3 colors to create the sky.

Creating Depth With Perspective

The fifth graders are working on creating scenes using one point perspective. They are using acrylic paints to color the picture after, but they where only allowed to use one hot color to paint their picture. 

City Reflection

The fourth graders are working on creating a city that looks 3-dimensional.  They drew the image on the upper half of a large folded paper.  After creating the city in pencil the students were asked to color the image twice; first with crayon and then again with marker.  When they had completed the coloring we wet the bottom, or blank half, of the paper and folded the colored half down onto the wet half.  The result is quite amazing.

Bird silhouettes

The first graders have been studying birds in their science classes.  In art we worked on making bird silhouettes.  The students first used a tracer and hard pastels to create the cloud shapes.  Then they used bird shaped tracers to create the bird shapes. Finally they used a China Markers to color in the bird shapes.