First Things First

Welcome back!  The DIS 2014/15 is underway!  Wow, it seems not too long ago we were at our Art Show at Strait's Quay and now we are back at the beginning of a new year.

This year we have new ESLR: Transformed Thinker - A transformed thinker recognizes the difference between the finite thoughts of man and the transcendent thoughts of God.  They also look at their thought patterns and decision making using biblical truth as their frame of reference.

More detailed descriptions available, along with our other ESLR's here.

Dalat's new theme this year is: First Things First.  Priorities will be examined across campus and in our community.  It is an exciting year ahead of us, I look forward to keeping you up to date as we work in our ESLR and our theme.

Romans 12:2 (NLT) Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.

6th Grade Project: Printmaking - Second Edition

We switched up our medium a bit on this edition.  Students were originally supposed to be printing to paper but were surprised (pleasantly so) to find that we were now going to print to foil.  It was a smaller printing area so some of the students needed to do some re-designing of their prints.  The benefits outweighed the cost and the classes agreed that this was a change that they were willing to make.

Unlike paper, foil allows paint to be moved around freely.  This freedom of movement gave the students a wonderful opportunity to really develop brushed on textures into their prints.  The example below shows the swirling purple sky background.  

Return to the First Edition.

Return to The Print Block.

4th Grade Project: Monumental Abstracts

The 4th graders are winding down on their work on Monumental Abstracts, to look back at earlier steps in this process you can visit: O'Keeffe Abstracts

The finished projects are beautiful.  The students have done so well and this project though lengthy has held the students attention so well.

Viewframe laid over abstract to zoom in on portion image.

Original abstract and Monumental Abstract.

A Monumental Abstract is a work that takes a portion of an image and zooms in to a point where the original image can often be lost - giving way to new image.  The work of Georgia O'Keeffe largely inspires this project, especially her floral abstracts.