Hailey Buckmeier's Art Projects

We made these Papel Picados, and used them to learn about the day of the dead. We all had the same template that we used to make sure they were all the same size, but we got to make our own designs. We folded the tissue paper in six different sections to have the 5 different lines of symmetrical designs. These could be folded at the top and connected to a string to be easily displayed around a classroom.  Extension Activity: If done with older students, this activity can be integrated with geometry, and students can measure the shapes they cut out and find the area and perimeter of each shape. 

We started this project by talking about Claude Monet, and his lily pad series of work. We talked about different techniques he used, but also about how we can use the 3D effect to add dimension to our art.  Background: We first taped down our water color paper so it did curl up, then covered the paper in a layer of water with a paint brush. We used blue, purple, and green water color paint to create our lake, and then sprinkled salt over the paper to give it a different texture.  Lily pad: We precut our lily pad shapes for the students. We used a blue marker to make veins on our lily pad, and then different shades of green and blue to highlight our lily pad and add detail.  Flower: We first took a paper, white, circle, and drew a flower shape on it. The students cut these out and used their pencil to roll the petals of it to make it 3D. We took a long pink strip of paper and colored half of it (the long way) orange. Then, cut little slivers half way through the pink slip...

  We used air dry clay to create flower bowls. I made mine into a ring holder and I should have added some more detail, but the idea is still there. We first learned all about different clay techniques like slab, wedging and scoring, and we learned how to kneed our clay to get the air bubbles out. We then got to flatten out our clay, and start forming it into a flower. We placed it in a bowl when we were done and dropped it from a short distance on a table a couple times to get the clay to take shape of the bowl.  Extension activity: Using the same material and concepts, students could create models of anything they are learning about. In If learning about the solar system, students could make planets and paint their models. If learning about plants and pollination/plant reproduction, students could make a realistic flower with labeled parts. If learning about punnet squares, students could make a model of what someone or something could look like based on their square with cl...

For this project, we studied the northern lights, and then different oil pastel techniques and how to blend them into our paper. One was just using our finger, but then another one was using a very small amount of baby oil on our finger to make the oil pastel blend better. We started by lightly drawing the outline of our mountains on a black piece of construction paper with pencil, and cutting it out. We took a different piece of black construction paper and started drawing our northern lights. We blended them out into the paper to make them look sort of realistic, and then added details like stars and snow with white crayon. After we were done drawing, we glued our mountain silhouette to our paper using Elmer's glue.  Extension activity: This activity could be integrated with language arts by having the students pretend that they are living on the mountains that they drew. They have to write a short story about their experiences living there like what they eat, how they built thei...

We started by learning about the artist Andy Warhol. We then began to sketch some flowers, with a list of examples for ideas. After we got our flowers sketched, we taped the paper to foam squared and pushed our drawings into the paper with a pen/pencil so it would leave an indent in the foam. We used these foam squares like stamps, and rolled paint over them and pressed them into other squares of paper using different colors. We worked with a partner for this, so we only made two different flowers, but made two copies of them, and traded with our partner so we had two of our own, and two of another person's. We glued these to a bigger piece of paper.  Extension activity: Instead of gluing them to paper and only making four, students could create a classroom garden and create flowers in the beginning of the year with their names on them and facts about themselves in order to get to know each other. This could create a sense of community to have a "classroom garden." All of...

 We tried to recreate stained glass for this project, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. We used different lines and shapes that he used in his art to create our own images. I made a pencil, but students do not have to create an actual object in their projects. If they used patterns, lines, and shapes in their art, then they were following directions. We used transparent paper and sharpies to create our work. We first used pencil and rulers to make our design on a piece of paper that was the same size as our transparent sheet. We taped the sheet and the paper together, and traced over our lines on the sheet with a Sharpie. We then colored the sheet with colored Sharpies.  Extension activity: This could be integrated with science by layering colors and adding lights to see how adding colors together with light produces different colored lights. If students use a blue section of their transparent sheet, and layer this with a yellow section, then place these two over a light, they w...