Tiny Dancers

Carlos and Aria

Enrique and Giana

Karla and Jakyla

Kevin and Justin

The second and third graders are finishing a sculpture project this week.  They began by hearing about Edgar Degas from a read-aloud, and looked at some of his sculptures.  I also showed them bronze figures by Alberto Giacometti and Pablo Picasso.  They were able to guess Picasso's work because they identified the cubist style from their previous lessons!  They built an armature from pipe cleaner, and used aluminum foil strips and modge podge to build their figures.  They painted them with black acrylic paint, and then they glazed them with a little bit of gold liquid watercolors.  A lot of the students made karate poses, so we tied belts in addition to tutus on the finished work.  Mrs. Phares's class made a connection with her Degas figure she keeps in her room, so she let us borrow it with a second read-aloud about his work Little Dancer.