Friday, December 9, 2011

Fourth grade soil profile paintings

Our fourth grade students created amazing watercolor paintings of a soil profile, as they are learning about soil profiles in science. These turned out fantastic!

First Grade Silhouettes

Our first grade students did a fantastic job on their silhouettes! We used watercolors and black tempera paint.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Third grade hippos

Our third grade students learned how to draw hippos. They did a fantastic job! Hippos live in rivers such as the Nile, and we have been learning about different rivers in our social studies classes. Great job third grade!

Kindergarten Sego lilly paintings

For our first painting class in Kindergarten, our student painted some beautiful sego lilies, our state flower!

Sixth grade Egyptian art

For the Egyptian unit that our sixth grade just learned about, we did some fun Egyptian portraits on gold scratch board. Come see the bulletin board in the art room!


Great basin collard lizard paintings

Our Fourth grade students have been learning about the different environmental regions of Utah. We learned about the Great Basin collared lizard and painted it in its natural environment. Great job fourth grade!

The Scream!

In Fourth grade last week we studied a painting by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch called The Scream. We had a great time making our own versions of the scream!


Thursday, September 8, 2011

Warm and cool colored hands

We are learning about heat and light in third grade, so we talked about warm and cool colors and the contrast they create. Then we made a contrasting picture using warm and cool colors. This lesson is from artprojectsforkids.org

6th grade Modigliani portraits

For our back to school self-portraits, we looked at the artist Amedeo Modigliani's work. We did our self portraits in the style of Modigliani, with elongated necks and features. We used oil pastels.

Crazy birds!

Our fourth graders reviewed some art skills and vocabulary from last year as we practiced drawing crazy birds. We talked about overlapping and depth. This lesson is from Deepspacesparkle.com.

Back to School!

Hello Summit Academy parents and students! We are excited to be starting a new school year! We have a new art room this year and we are excited to start art! If you have any of the following supplies laying around, we would love you to bring them in!
MASONITE BOARD - ANY SIZE
THIN PLEXAGLASS FOR FRAMING
BLACK ELECTRICAL TAPE FOR FRAMING
STRING, STRING, STRING

FEATHERS
FOIL - ALUMINUM, COPPER, OR OTHER
EGG CARTONS
FABRIC SCRAPS
SCRAP BOOKING SCRAPS
HAIR COMBS
PENCILS
SMALL BOXES
PLASTIC
RIBBON
BUTTONS
BEADS
WIRE
YARN
STRING
ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS
OLD APRONS (full length)
OLD OXFORD OR SMOCK SHIRTS (for painting)
ANY FLAT SURFACE WITH TEXTURE
PLY WOOD OR THIN WOOD SCRAPS
POP CAN TOPS
WRAPPING PAPER SCRAPS
USED UP TOILET PAPER ROLLS
USED UP PAPER TOWEL ROLLS
ANY CARDBOARD CYLINDER SHAPE
INK PADS
MAGNETS (small round)
POLISHING STONES

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Gallery Stroll 2011

We had our Second annual Gallery Stroll on Thursday night! It was a great night and the student performances were great! We had about 719 people show up, as well as the art truck from Project 337. Great job Summit Students!



Monday, May 16, 2011


Gallery Stroll! Come to our elementary gym on Thursday, May 26th from 6-8 pm to see our awesome artwork on display! We will also be having our second, third, kindergarten and fifth grades perform some great musical numbers and a visit from the art truck from here. Come support the arts at Summit!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Chinese Willow Pattern Plates

We are learning about China in third grade so we learned about Chinese Willow Pattern Plates. We talked about tints and shades and practiced mixing colors. Our third grade students did a great job!


Wayne Theibaud Cupcakes

Our Second grade students learned about artist Wayne Theibaud and his sweet pictures. We made our own cupcake pictures with real cupcakes to observe. They are so colorfu!

Alien School Pictures

Here are some awesome Alien school pictures we made in first grade. We are studying the solar system. The idea is based off of Art with Mr. E's great art blog. These turned out so cute!

Kindergarten Giraffes

Kindergarten is learning about Africa. We talked about the different animals that live in Africa and then they made these cute giraffes. I love kindergarten art!


Fifth grade locomotives

Our fifth graders just finished learning about the Civil War and all the events that surrounded it, so we looked at pictures of locomotives and drew them in charcoal.