Interactive Street Art Chalk Murals

After a week of planning and chalking, our interactive chalk murals are ready for some interactivity! Each mural was designed to be interacted with in some way. You might roast a marshmallow, gaze at the stars or steal gold from a fire breathing dragon! 

Creating the murals was up to us, how you participate is up to you. Have fun, take some photos and post them to our Facebook page!

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Interactive Chalk Murals : Almost Done

We are putting the final touches on our 30 interactive chalk murals. Tomorrow, we will take photos of each with someone interacting with them.. like the photo above.. Well, that is just a shadow of the things to come :)



ArtSpark Raleigh

Speaking of chalk... 

A bunch of our Art 3 kids spent last Saturday at ArtSpark in Downtown Raleigh as part of the street chalk festivities. Here are a few shots!

Interactive Chalk Murals : Day 0

It rained yesterday. Not just rained but really rained. A lot. Mucho. Tornado warnings and all. 

And so today, when we came back to school, even though the murals were under cover, they still were washed away. Did I mention it rained?

This mural was basically washed away by the water. But Apex Art students are resilient and don't let a little (or in this case, a lot) of rain stop them. they went back to work starting from day 0.

And they worked and worked and pretty soon the pictures were back up.

Interactive Chalk Murals : Day 2

We started work on our latest project, interactive chalk murals. The idea is to create murals on the wall of the courtyard where other students can take photos of themselves interacting with the murals.

Today was day two of actual work on the walls. The goal was to block in colors wit hlarge sidewalk chalks. tomorrow, we might be ready to start working in more details.

 

View the piliminary sketches back when we first started, click here.

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Color Me Katie : Artist Inspiration

Here at Apex HS Art, we decided instead of giving everyone in the Art One class a sketchbook assignment, that we would break up each class into teams of 5-6 students. 

Each week, only one team would have a sketchbook assignment.. and not just have to complete an assignment, but rather to compete against the other members of their group. Think of it like a reality game show TV program in the art room.

So this week we gave our first set of teams an artist that they would use as an inspiration.. and since we are starting work on our interactive chalk murals, we thought Katie Sokoler, AKA Color Me Katie would be the perfect artists to start with.

Each student's art was critiqued based on Creativity, Craftsmanship and Inspiration by their fellow class members... you know, the kids that didn't have a sketchbook assignment this week.

So here, for your viewing pleasure, are this week's entries...

Above: One of the winners from Sands' art class

She won and got a prize and wore the cerimonial tiara!