The birds in the nest artwork is “scissor art” by Maysun Barilla, fourth grade, Burton Street Elementary School.
(New Woodstock, Cazenovia, NY – Dec. 2013) New Woodstock Library’s annual exhibition of artwork produced by Cazenovia Central Schools students, Cazenovia Children’s Art Exhibit, is set to open this weekend with a special reception 10 a.m. Dec. 7 for the artists and their families. The display will be up through January.
Cazenovia Middle School art teacher Johanna Neugebauer said her students’ pieces include:
*Still-life pieces in the style of French artist Paul Cezanne, created with colored paper, charcoal and chalk. (Sixth grade.)
*Cubist self-portraits, a la Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, using geometric shapes, non-traditional colors and watercolor washes. (Sixth grade.)
*Harvest watercolors featuring fruits and vegetables and created using glue and paint. (Fifth grade.)
*Positive-negative designs made with contrasting colors of construction paper. (Fifth grade.)
*Self-portraits created in styles that include fractured pencil drawings, line work of words describing the subject, and collages of color images (Seventh grade.)
*Name mandalas: High-contrast, symmetrical circular designs. (Seventh grade.)
Burton Street Elementary School students, meanwhile, have been focusing on the work of French Impressionist Claude Monet and American artist Jackson Pollock.
Burton Street art teacher Mary Damon said first-graders have been using marbles to emulate Pollock’s “action painting” Expressionist style, in which he threw, splashed and dripped paint onto his large canvases.
Burton Street students in kindergarten through fourth grade also have studied Monet.
“Scissors and imagination were the two main ingredients for this project,” Damon explained. “Students had to first look at the shape of the scissors to get an idea for the subject of their creation. Next, they traced the scissors and added details to transform the scissor shape into something very different.”