In MY Room…

The “In my room…” project is intended for students to think about the idea of personal space. If you could create a space (or a room) that was tailored to all your interests, what would that look like? What kinds of things would be inside of it?

Class Questions

– What are your favorite items in your room?

– What is your favorite room to visit?

– Do you share this room with anyone else?

– Is your favorite room outside? inside? underwater? on land? in space?

 

Let’s take a look at the process!

Supplies is laid out very neat and organized, so things will be very easy to find.

So many colors! So many options! Time to get creative.

There are some sad empty rooms just WAITING to be decorated with materials!

The idea is to create a space (or a room) that you like to be in. This model is of a classroom, because teachers like Holly, Zoe and Asia like their classrooms! As you can see, there were a lot of different materials used like paper, clay, foam core, popsicle sticks, and string

Kayle’s favorite place to be is her bedroom, so she made a bed out of a sponge and red pipe cleaner. Good thinking using those available resources!

Finishing up some glazing from our first project. Lisa is pretty excited to start making her room!

Kelsey is feeling much better, and can finally add fun colors to her mugs.

Lisa has added a base layer of white to one of her walls to get rolling.

Kelsey is using a brush with many bristles to spread purple to her walls more efficiently.

Kelsey is hard at work creating a pipe cleaner Tipi. There is a lot of detail accompanied by patience to creating this structure!

Heidi’s favorite place is the forest. She has found some great found objects from outside the classroom to include in her space.

Everyone is very hard at work! Holly has a clay box for anyone that wants to experiment with texture.

Brian is SUPER excited about his drawing with markers. Check out that interesting texture where it is blue!

Zoe and Heidi critique her glazed mug.

The walls of Heidi’s “room” are silhouettes of the Colorado mountains. She noticed that those blue beads reflect light like water, so she thought they would make a great addition to her lake.

Bird’s eye view of Kelsey’s purple bedroom! If you look closely, she also added windows and a bookshelf.

Kelsey getting creative with her room. Inspired by pictures of teepee’s she started working with pipe cleaners creating her own abstraction from what she observed.

Farrah’s room had several windows with a view.

Lisa finishing up her room, she is such a focused artist.

Lisa’s room is really coming together!

Kelsey’s wire sculpture hanging off her cardboard room.

Farrah’s room all finished.

Lisa used foam sheets in multiple colors to decorate her room.

After Heidi made a fish she started creating other little critters for her forest.

Heidi wanted to make sure she got her deer just right, using molding clay helped her re-work the form.

Kelsey’s collection, her room, mug and slab.

Heidi’s mug next to Kayle’s mug with a hat.

Lisa’s glazed mugs and orange tear drop face.

Kelsey’s collection was vast, she really enjoyed working with clay.

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