Harris Art Video
Here is a short video showing some highlights of the 2008-2009 school year.
McNay Art Museum Field Trip
All the art students will be attending field trips to the McNay Art Museum during December. The Sixth Grade students will go to the McNay on December 1st. The Seventh Grade students will go on December 8th. The Eighth Grade students will go on December 15th. All the field trips will take place between 9:00 and 11:00. The students will miss three classes and be back at school in time for lunch. Any parents who would like to attend the trip should call the school at 226-4952 and ask to speak with our community liaison Mrs. Garcia.
American Sign Language Hands
Our seventh grade art students just finished a drawing assignment that involved creating detailed drawings of hands. The students began by practicing making contour (outline) drawings of their hands in various positions. Next they received a handout showing the American Sign Language alphabet. They drew the symbols for letters to spell out positive affirmations and mounted the finished drawings on construction paper.
Grid Enlargement Drawings
The seventh grade art classes combined their artistic abilities with math skills to create a cartoon poster. They began by drawing a 1/2 inch square grid on comic strip panels they selected from newspapers and comic books. Next they figured the ratio necessary to fit this grid on an 18" by 24" sheet of drawing paper. They painstakingly enlarged the comic strip panels one square at a time onto the larger paper and finished the poster using markers and colored pencils.
Sixth Grade Pattern Paintings
The Sixth Grade Art Students have just completed a painting unit. After learning how to mix the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) together to make the secondary colors (orange, green, violet), the students drew a repeat pattern on a square sheet of paper. They added color to this pattern using tempera paint.
My Classroom
My email is rbrooks@saisd.net.
My conference period is from 11:30-12:30.
Second Nine Weeks
Our students are working on a variety of art projects.
November 9-13
The Sixth Grade classes are currently working on yarn drawings. Next they will be creating a stained glass window design using construction and tissue paper.
The Seventh and Eighth Grade classes are creating pattern paintings.
All the classes are taking a quiz on Mary Cassatt this Friday and will use Cornell Notes to gather information about the Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh.
All About Me
I graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education. I attended San Antonio College, University of Texas Austin, and University of Texas San Antonio to get my certifcation in Language Arts. I later graduated from UTSA with a Master of Arts degree in Bilingual Bicultural Studies.
Educational Philosophy - Public schools prepare students for higher education, the workforce and citizenship, but most importantly, they prepare students to become lifelong learners.
