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      • Light Box
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      • 3D Wire Sculptures
      • FIber Arts - Yarn & Fabric
      • Printmaking
      • Origami Mobile
      • Wire Birds
      • Community Map
      • Deconstructed Books
      • Eraser Stamps
      • Tissue Paper Collage
      • Soap Carving
      • Assemblage Art Inspired by Luise Nevelson
      • Plaster Sculpture
      • 3D Plaster Letters
      • Daruma Doll
      • Paper Mache Monster
      • Creature Soft Sculpture
      • Making a Mold
      • Glass Mosaic
    • High School Drawing >
      • Lines! Drawing Contrast
      • Mandala
      • Calligraphy
      • Zentangles
      • Scratch Art
      • Holes and Layers with Pencil
      • Contour Line Drawing/Paper Art
      • Ribbon Lettering Pencil Drawing
      • Still Life Drawing
      • Ink Cube Warm Up
      • Making a Quill Pen
      • Contour Lines (Quill Pen Drawing Part 1)
      • Cross Contour Lines (Quill Pen Drawing Part 2)
      • Gesture Drawing
      • Tattoo Flash Drawing
      • Picasso Pencil Shading
      • Charcoal Emphasis
      • Charcoal Drawing
      • Chalk Drawing
      • Chalk Monsters
      • Oil Pastel
      • Oil Pastels on Velvet
      • Henna Tattoos
      • Colored Pencil
      • Grid Drawing with Colored Pencil
    • High School Painting >
      • Color Wheel
      • Color Wheel Practice
      • Monochromatic Tempera Painting
      • Watercolor Techniques Painting
      • Quote with Watercolor Pencils
      • Watercolor Illustration
      • Watercolor Landscape
      • Printmaking
      • Printmaking 3 Ways
      • Pop Art Painting
      • Tempera Painting Close-Up
      • Acrylic Self Portraits
      • Acrylic Painting without Brushes
      • Acrylic Texture Painting
      • Puzzle Piece Painting
      • Acrylic Painted Jars/Bottles
      • Acrylic Environment Painting on Recycled Materials
      • FX Make-up Attempt
      • Calligraphy
      • Painting Warm-Up
      • Tempera Texture Painting
      • Coffee Painting (Watercolor)
      • Watercolor Mini Journal
      • Folk Art Painting
      • Navajo Sand Painting
      • Book Cover Design
      • Grid Painting
    • High School Graphic Design >
      • Typography
      • If you were an App
      • Building Weebly Website >
        • Student's Websites
      • Intro to Illustrator
      • Flag Design
      • Logo Design >
        • Logo with Letter, Envelope and Businesscard
      • Introduction to Photoshop - Tools
      • Introduction to Photoshop - Layers and Filters
      • Surrealism Photography
      • T-Shirt Design
      • Hierarchy in Design
      • Using A Grid
    • Clay >
      • Clay Terms
      • Clay Tools
      • Texture Stamps
      • Throwing Videos
      • Clay Bobble Head
      • Texture Cup with Handle
      • Coil Pot
      • Coil Sculpture
      • Clay Building Review
      • Clay Vocab Review
      • Texture Drape Bowl
      • Patchwork Pot
      • Folded Slab Bowl
      • Slab Box
      • Pinch Pot Amplifier
      • Pinch Pot Butter Dish
      • Creature Planter
      • Pinch Pot Cereal Bowl and Spoon
      • Pinch Pot Sculpture
      • Bobble Head
      • Salt Dough Sculpture
      • Mug with Handle
      • Slab Castle with Glass Moat
      • Polymer Clay
      • Challenge #1 Soap Dish
      • Challenge #2: Clay Food Sculpture
      • Challenge #3: Backflow Incense Burner
      • Stuffed Animal Sculpture
    • Art Appreciation >
      • Prehistoric Art in Europe and the Mediterranean
      • Mesopotamian
      • Ancient Egypt
      • Greek and Hellenistic Art
      • Roman Art
      • Chinese Painting
      • Byzantine and Medieval Art 500 - 1400 A.D.
      • Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)
      • Mannerism (1527–1580)
      • Baroque (1600–1750)
      • Neoclassical (1750–1850)
      • Romanticism (1780–1850)
      • Impressionism (1865–1885)
      • Cubism
  • Middle School
    • 6th Grade >
      • Minecraft Self Portrait
      • Clay Bells
      • Greek Pottery Scratch Art
      • Textured Collage Animal Paintings
      • Face Pots
      • Clay Cupcake Pots
      • Paper Mache Pinata
    • 7th Grade >
      • 1 Point Perspective Room
      • Monochromatic Landscape
      • Pinch Pot Creature
      • Texture Bowl (Drape Bowl)
    • 8th Grade >
      • Pencil Shading Practice
      • Cereal Box Design
      • Tempera Batik Painting
      • 8th Grade Coil Pots
      • 3 Part Contour Faces
      • Playing Card Castle
      • Book Shadow Box
      • Magazine Collage
  • Elementary
    • Kindergarten >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Shape Machines
    • 1st Grade >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Van Gogh Inspired Sunflowers
    • 2nd Grade >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Chalk Landscape
    • 3rd Grade >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Primary Color Salt Painting
    • 4th Grade >
      • Andy Warhol inspired Grumpy Cat
      • Clay Bells
    • 5th Grade >
      • Line Movement
      • Clay Bells

Classroom Rules

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Elementary (K-2)

Effort: 100% Effort on all assignments every day. Try your hardest.
Respect: you, other students, teachers, artwork and supplies

Clean-Up: Clean up your own messes. Put supplies back where they go. Wipe tables down if needed.
Sit in Chair: Sit in your chairs the correct way. No tipping! 
Listen: Listen to the teacher and when other friends are talking or answering questions.
Talk Quietly: You can talk to the people at your table during work time using indoor voices.

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High School / Jr. High

Participation/Attendance: BE HERE ON TIME EVERY DAY. PARTICIPATE ON ASSIGNMENTS EVERY DAY. IF YOU ARE CONSTANTLY ABSENT OR NOT PARTICIPATING IT WILL REFLECT IN YOUR PROJECT GRADE.




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Advanced Art Students: IF YOU PASSED AN ART CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL THEN YOU ARE NOW AN ADVANCED STUDENT IN THE CLASS YOU PASSED. YOU NOW HAVE THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE YOUR FOCUS. YOU NEED TO MEET THE SAME DEADLINES AS THE BEGINNING ART STUDENTS.


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Supplies/Clean-up: CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESSES. 5-7 MINUTES BEFORE CLASS IS OVER START CLEANING. BRING A PENCIL AND COMPUTER TO CLASS EVERY DAY.




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Discipline: All the same rules outlined in your student handbook will apply to the art room. 
VERBAL WARNING
DETENTION
TO THE OFFICE/WRITTEN UP








Homework/Late Assignments: NO HOMEWORK WILL BE ASSIGNED. HOMEWORK WILL BE ANYTHING YOU NEED TO MAKE UP OR FINISH UP BEFORE A DEADLINE.






Cell Phones: NO PHONES OUT DURING CLASSROOM TIME. THERE WILL BE A CHARGING STATION AVAILABLE IN THE "PARKING STATION". 
"POCKET OR PARK IT"





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Food/Drink: NO FOOD ALLOWED IN THE ART ROOM. TRANSPARENT WATER BOTTLES ARE OKAY.





Restrooms: GET A PASS. DO NOT TAKE TOO LONG. IF RESTROOM TRIPS BECOME A PROBLEM THEY WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED.





Plagiarizing: DON'T COPY WHAT YOU SEE/RESEARCH/FIND. 








Computers: BRING YOUR COMPUTER EVERY DAY TO CLASS. DO NOT USE IT WHILE TEACHER IS TALKING UNLESS GIVEN PERMISSION. FOR CLASS/NOT FOR GAMING.
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Western Iowa Conference Art Show: The high school art show is hosted at one of the school in the conference. We will be able to take up to 80 art pieces to display. Two judges (chosen by the hosting school) will judge and critique the artwork. Winning students will be awarded "Honorable Mention" or "Outstanding Work" awards. One student in the entire show will be awarded "Best of Show". We will take a field trip to go see the show. The event is in the spring usually in the month of April. Details and further instruction will be given to you at a later date.


Field Trips: We will take at least two field trips this year, one in the Fall and one in the Spring (including WIC Art Show) Details will be given at a later date.

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  • Home
    • Master Schedule
    • Art News
    • About Mrs. Piro
    • Grading
    • Classroom Rules
  • High School
    • Final Fall 2019
    • Art Elements and Design Principles
    • Sculpture >
      • Light Box
      • Metal Tooling
      • 3D Wire Sculptures
      • FIber Arts - Yarn & Fabric
      • Printmaking
      • Origami Mobile
      • Wire Birds
      • Community Map
      • Deconstructed Books
      • Eraser Stamps
      • Tissue Paper Collage
      • Soap Carving
      • Assemblage Art Inspired by Luise Nevelson
      • Plaster Sculpture
      • 3D Plaster Letters
      • Daruma Doll
      • Paper Mache Monster
      • Creature Soft Sculpture
      • Making a Mold
      • Glass Mosaic
    • High School Drawing >
      • Lines! Drawing Contrast
      • Mandala
      • Calligraphy
      • Zentangles
      • Scratch Art
      • Holes and Layers with Pencil
      • Contour Line Drawing/Paper Art
      • Ribbon Lettering Pencil Drawing
      • Still Life Drawing
      • Ink Cube Warm Up
      • Making a Quill Pen
      • Contour Lines (Quill Pen Drawing Part 1)
      • Cross Contour Lines (Quill Pen Drawing Part 2)
      • Gesture Drawing
      • Tattoo Flash Drawing
      • Picasso Pencil Shading
      • Charcoal Emphasis
      • Charcoal Drawing
      • Chalk Drawing
      • Chalk Monsters
      • Oil Pastel
      • Oil Pastels on Velvet
      • Henna Tattoos
      • Colored Pencil
      • Grid Drawing with Colored Pencil
    • High School Painting >
      • Color Wheel
      • Color Wheel Practice
      • Monochromatic Tempera Painting
      • Watercolor Techniques Painting
      • Quote with Watercolor Pencils
      • Watercolor Illustration
      • Watercolor Landscape
      • Printmaking
      • Printmaking 3 Ways
      • Pop Art Painting
      • Tempera Painting Close-Up
      • Acrylic Self Portraits
      • Acrylic Painting without Brushes
      • Acrylic Texture Painting
      • Puzzle Piece Painting
      • Acrylic Painted Jars/Bottles
      • Acrylic Environment Painting on Recycled Materials
      • FX Make-up Attempt
      • Calligraphy
      • Painting Warm-Up
      • Tempera Texture Painting
      • Coffee Painting (Watercolor)
      • Watercolor Mini Journal
      • Folk Art Painting
      • Navajo Sand Painting
      • Book Cover Design
      • Grid Painting
    • High School Graphic Design >
      • Typography
      • If you were an App
      • Building Weebly Website >
        • Student's Websites
      • Intro to Illustrator
      • Flag Design
      • Logo Design >
        • Logo with Letter, Envelope and Businesscard
      • Introduction to Photoshop - Tools
      • Introduction to Photoshop - Layers and Filters
      • Surrealism Photography
      • T-Shirt Design
      • Hierarchy in Design
      • Using A Grid
    • Clay >
      • Clay Terms
      • Clay Tools
      • Texture Stamps
      • Throwing Videos
      • Clay Bobble Head
      • Texture Cup with Handle
      • Coil Pot
      • Coil Sculpture
      • Clay Building Review
      • Clay Vocab Review
      • Texture Drape Bowl
      • Patchwork Pot
      • Folded Slab Bowl
      • Slab Box
      • Pinch Pot Amplifier
      • Pinch Pot Butter Dish
      • Creature Planter
      • Pinch Pot Cereal Bowl and Spoon
      • Pinch Pot Sculpture
      • Bobble Head
      • Salt Dough Sculpture
      • Mug with Handle
      • Slab Castle with Glass Moat
      • Polymer Clay
      • Challenge #1 Soap Dish
      • Challenge #2: Clay Food Sculpture
      • Challenge #3: Backflow Incense Burner
      • Stuffed Animal Sculpture
    • Art Appreciation >
      • Prehistoric Art in Europe and the Mediterranean
      • Mesopotamian
      • Ancient Egypt
      • Greek and Hellenistic Art
      • Roman Art
      • Chinese Painting
      • Byzantine and Medieval Art 500 - 1400 A.D.
      • Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)
      • Mannerism (1527–1580)
      • Baroque (1600–1750)
      • Neoclassical (1750–1850)
      • Romanticism (1780–1850)
      • Impressionism (1865–1885)
      • Cubism
  • Middle School
    • 6th Grade >
      • Minecraft Self Portrait
      • Clay Bells
      • Greek Pottery Scratch Art
      • Textured Collage Animal Paintings
      • Face Pots
      • Clay Cupcake Pots
      • Paper Mache Pinata
    • 7th Grade >
      • 1 Point Perspective Room
      • Monochromatic Landscape
      • Pinch Pot Creature
      • Texture Bowl (Drape Bowl)
    • 8th Grade >
      • Pencil Shading Practice
      • Cereal Box Design
      • Tempera Batik Painting
      • 8th Grade Coil Pots
      • 3 Part Contour Faces
      • Playing Card Castle
      • Book Shadow Box
      • Magazine Collage
  • Elementary
    • Kindergarten >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Shape Machines
    • 1st Grade >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Van Gogh Inspired Sunflowers
    • 2nd Grade >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Chalk Landscape
    • 3rd Grade >
      • Rainbow Self Portrait (Selfie)
      • Primary Color Salt Painting
    • 4th Grade >
      • Andy Warhol inspired Grumpy Cat
      • Clay Bells
    • 5th Grade >
      • Line Movement
      • Clay Bells