Art 7/8 - Everyone Welcome - 🎨

Our class works in both two- and three-dimensional art. We use paint, pencils, markers, plaster, linoleum, fabric, cameras, wire, cardboard, and clay to make art. Some of the projects students work on include pillows, linoleum block prints, photography, landscape drawings, figure drawings, paintings in one- or two-point perspective, pinch pots and coil pots, wire and cardboard sculptures, and whatever else you can think of.

Students learn techniques that are specific to a certain medium at the beginning of each new project. This may include sewing, building with cardboard, using a camera, or mixing and blending colors.

We also analyze images by professional artists to understand the context of their work, and how it applies to our lives today.

Please scroll down to look at student work!

(Supply list is located at the bottom of this site)

Photography

Drawing and Painting

 Cardboard Sculptures

 Ceramics 

 Plaster

 Wire Sculptures

Linoleum Prints

About me

This is my 14th year teaching, and my fourth year at Mountain Ridge. My love of middle school stems from student enthusiasm and their growing technical abilities. With this combination, they are able to make wonderful works of art!

Before teaching at MRMS, I taught high school digital photography, drawing and painting, and printmaking. I have also taught at the elementary level. 

Prior to teaching I worked as an attorney, picture framer, video production assistant, and school photographer. Not knowing what to do as an aspiring artist, a ceramics teacher at Red Rocks Community College suggested I look into art education. And here I am. The power of a teacher ...