Chihuly Style at Gra-Mar Middle School 5th -8th Grade

Students in the Visual Arts classes have been studying glass artist Dale Chihuly. We have been exploring his style of artwork and creating our own examples.

Fifth Grade Students creating "Floats"

We suspended our "Floats" from the ceiling.

Sixth Grade students enjoyed creating a "Chandelier" with plastic bottles, acrylic paint, chicken wire, paper clips and  . . .

 a string of lights to illuminate it. 

Sixth graders created acetate "Persians" and tissue paper "Persians".

We colored overhead transparencies with permanent marker, placed them over a clay pot and gently heated them to create our transparent "Persians".

MACCHIA

 Students enjoyed all the techniques and media we used for Macchia.

We used acrylic paints to create a "bird's eye view" of macchia.

Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh graders used coffee filters, water base markers, and starch to create paper macchia.

Seventh graders enjoyed coloring overhead transparencies with permanent markers, placing the transparencies on clay pots and heating with the heat gun to create "glass Macchia".

Seventh Grade students created "Cylinder" paintings with acrylic paint and chalk.

Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Grade students

created their individual "glass bottle art".  Plastic bottles, permanent marker and a heat gun can create beautiful works of "glass" art.

Eighth Grade sculptures created out of foam core, construction paper,

 wire twists, toothpicks and pom poms.

Chihuly-Inspired by Nature. West End Middle 5-8 Grades

 Ms. Lin Walker's art classes, West End Middle School.

  After looking at the artwork of Chihuly and seeing how he was influenced by nature, the students worked on their own drawings.  I gave each grade a different influence.  Fifth Grade saw images of leaves.  Sixth Grade saw trees.  Seventh Grade looked at rocks.  Eighth Grade looked at sea life.They used colored pencil, paint washes, oil pastel and charcoals.  For many of the students, this was the first abstract art they had ever produced.