BCD alum and current college sophomore Carina Kaufman joined the 4th grade in art class last week. She presented a challenging sculpture lesson to the group, based on the work of the sculptor Giacometti. Students tried to create a figure 15” tall and 3” wide using a wire armature and clay.
The Fifth and Sixth Grades are away this week, but the other grades are chugging along. The Third Graders have finished large self portrait paintings and are now beginning to work on the BCD tree for the Festival of Trees at the Berkshire Museum. The Fourth Graders are creating sculptures of foil figures in settings. The Seventh Graders have finished drawing with charcoal and pencil and made scratchboard pictures. They are currently at work carving plaster sculptures. The 8th and 9th Graders are finishing making plaster hand cast sculptures, and beginning color value collages.
Last Wed. the 6th grade class was lucky enough to have beautiful weather on their visit to Olana, former home of the Hudson River School artist Frederic Church. The class visited the home, including the newly opened upstairs rooms, as well as sketched outdoors and watched a film about Church. The visit was enjoyed by all, and will enhance the class study of landscape art and the Hudson River School.
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