Welcome back!

Welcome back Hosmer artists and families! To start off the school year, students in 1st - 5th grades collaborated on an artwork that is now on display in our school lobby. Inspired by the wing murals of artist Kelsey Montague that have been popping up all over the country, students created and designed a feather using a monochromatic color scheme -- one color family. 

We started with pencil, choosing either an abstract design made up of lines and shapes, or a theme like nature, personal interests, etc. Then students outlined their design with Sharpie marker and used markers, colored pencils and crayons in their color family. We thought about using different materials and shades within that color family to emphasize different parts of our design. 

The last step was to cut out the feather. The feather were organized and sorted by color and then arranged and glued from the bottom up, so that the feathers overlapped each other. It took a while to put it all together!

All the feathers are part of our rainbow pair of wings display downstairs in the lobby of Hosmer. Collaboratively they form the wings that will help us fly and soar this year!