Our school wide art project

Wings

She was here!!  Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!

Kelsey Montague!  She was here in my town painting beautiful interactive murals all over my city and I missed it!  Here I am teaching my kiddos all about her, watching her videos, looking at her work and creating our very own tribute to her beautiful murals and she was here… last month.  Oh, what I would have given to be able to go see her in action, painting wings and -gasp, meet her!  But, I missed it…  

Wings in Scottsdale!

One of my students came up to me and casually said “I saw the wings.”  What?  Where?  “At the hockey arena.”  Wait. What?  I frantically typed her name and PHOENIX into the search engine and there were not one but FIVE new beautiful murals around town! 

How could I have missed her?  For the past few weeks my classes have been talking about murals and looking at the beautiful work of Ms. Kelsey Montague.  We are in the process of creating beautiful painted wings for a mural that students can interact with and invite our community into our annual art walk.  This year our art walk is combined with our science night for a fabulous STEAM night event we are calling A Night in our Museum!  

We started by painting papers.  Each grade level focused on painting different color values of our chosen color palette. Students used their color with white and then black to create beautiful value scales on mixed media paper. By the end of the week, we had A LOT of painted papers! 

Students then used white prisma color pencils to design their individual feathers.  My amazing PTO moms helped me assemble and seal the painted paper feathers to two 4×8 painted wood boards. 

Our finished mural was 4 feet tall and 16 feet wide and it is SO fabulous! It was a hit at the STEAM night! The kids loved standing in front of the installation for a photo opportunity!

Our amazing collaborative mural inspired by the fabulous Kelsey Montague now proudly hangs in our school hall.

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