3rd Trimester 2016
Learning about perspective and foreshortening the students traced their hands and feet and then added their bodies.
Learning about shape and color with collage.
Lessons in value. (That's adding white and black to color to get different shades.)
2nd Trimester 2015-2016
February/March
Getting creative with cut paper and torn paper!
Getting creative with cut paper and torn paper!
Working with clay and creating owls and their habitats!
January- The students had fun sculpting Chinese New Year dragons made out of model magic.
December
Christmas fun! Decorating ornaments and drawing Santa.
Christmas fun! Decorating ornaments and drawing Santa.
1st Trimester 2015
October
The art room has been filled with all kinds of monsters! Our Monster portraits were based on Picasso's Cubist Portaits
The art room has been filled with all kinds of monsters! Our Monster portraits were based on Picasso's Cubist Portaits
Everyone enjoyed creating monster puppets for Halloween! We learned about SHAPE and worked on our fine motor skills…cutting and glueing!
Just a few pictures of the 3rd grade Salmon hats. A lesson in overlapping color and texture.
1st and 2nd grade worked on their stuffed fish for Salmon Days fun. They are displayed in the main building right now, along with their leaf animals.
September
Line Exploration - Our line lesson based on artist Kandinsky was also a great way to explore the different media we use to create line. Paint, oil pastel, chalk pastels, color pencils, construction paper, tissue paper and marker.
1st Trimester 2015
September
Lessons in line! If you can write your name-you can draw! In our first lesson each student used their name to create their hair in the drawings below.
3rd trimester 2015
June
The students have been designing their own game boards!
The students have been designing their own game boards!
3rd Trimester 2015
June
Art and Author's night! Check out the video on the link below. (Go to pictures and videos and then click on art and author presentation. You'll need an updated adobe flash player to view it.)
May
It's puppet time - a student favorite!
It's puppet time - a student favorite!
Dino drawing! We're learning about texture and how to draw what something feels like.
Learning to draw what you see not what you think. This drawing exercise required the students to work from a grid where they had to carefully observe a picture and draw each square to match the grid on the picture. It forces the brain to draw what it sees instead of what it thinks something looks like. Everyone can learn to draw if they will just slow down and carefully observe what they are drawing.
You can see how beautiful and accurate the drawings are below!
You can see how beautiful and accurate the drawings are below!
Over, under, around and through...learning how to draw overlapping and dimension.
April
Making clay chickens
Making clay chickens
Georgia O'keefe was a painter who became known for her abstract paintings of flowers. She would paint a close up of the inside of the flower and use vivid colors. To learn more about her check out this video:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=georgia+o%27keeffe+video+for+kids&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=5196B5143BBF186B30225196B5143BBF186B3022
Here are the student's inspired flower paintings!
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=georgia+o%27keeffe+video+for+kids&FORM=VIRE3#view=detail&mid=5196B5143BBF186B30225196B5143BBF186B3022
Here are the student's inspired flower paintings!
March
Being inspired by the artist Romare Bearden and his amazing collages, the students cut out shapes and glued them down. Next step: prints. Final step: a collage of papers.
To learn more about Romare Bearden follow this link:
http://www.beardenfoundation.org/artlife/biography/biography.shtml
Being inspired by the artist Romare Bearden and his amazing collages, the students cut out shapes and glued them down. Next step: prints. Final step: a collage of papers.
To learn more about Romare Bearden follow this link:
http://www.beardenfoundation.org/artlife/biography/biography.shtml
2nd Trimester 2014-15
February
The students have been learning about symmetry and have done an incredible job making masks. Here are a few examples:
January
This month we learned about the 3 primary colors: red, yellow and blue and how they make all the other colors. We also learned about the proportions of the face and how to draw different expressions. Learning to read facial expressions and body language is a very important skill called emotional intelligence. We talked about how it helps you to get along better with others because if you can read a person's face you'll know if you hurt their feelings or if they liked what you said to them.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. the students drew the other half of the face of a famous African American.
This month we learned about the 3 primary colors: red, yellow and blue and how they make all the other colors. We also learned about the proportions of the face and how to draw different expressions. Learning to read facial expressions and body language is a very important skill called emotional intelligence. We talked about how it helps you to get along better with others because if you can read a person's face you'll know if you hurt their feelings or if they liked what you said to them.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. the students drew the other half of the face of a famous African American.
December 2014
Santa's workshop has been in full swing this month! The students are all ready to take their bird and nutcracker ornaments home. Hope you found room for them on your Christmas trees!
Santa's workshop has been in full swing this month! The students are all ready to take their bird and nutcracker ornaments home. Hope you found room for them on your Christmas trees!
1st Trimester 2014
November
We are learning about positive and negative shape. The print on the left is the positive shape and the print on the right is the negative shape. (where the shape is white and the background is filled in)
We are learning about positive and negative shape. The print on the left is the positive shape and the print on the right is the negative shape. (where the shape is white and the background is filled in)
October
We are learning about "form"- the art term for 3-D shape. The students are using model magic to sculpt trolls.
We are learning about "form"- the art term for 3-D shape. The students are using model magic to sculpt trolls.
Everyone love animals and so the students created a "pet" of their choice complete with patterns, bright colors, hats and even microphones!
Inspired by Salmon days and the Northcoast Indians, the students drew their version of a salmon. The Northcoast Indians used pictures inside their art to tell stories. Can you find images in the salmon drawings below from Mrs. Elkoury's 1st grade class?
Every year I always have students who feel they are no good at art. To help them see that everyone has different strengths, this year I had the students make super hero headbands highlighting their strengths (or super powers) Some were good at singing, others at making things, others were good at sports. Some even said their super power was being kind. That's something I wish the whole world was good at! Check out their creations below.
After the headbands were made, I took photos of each student. We looked at the art of Roy Lichtenstein, a pop artist whose work was inspired by comic strip art. The students then put their name in an explosion and the photo was glued on. (See Mrs. Catlin's 3rd grade class art below.)
Roy Lichtensteinen.wikipedia.org (check out this link to learn more about him!)
- Roy Fox Lichtenstein was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody. Favoring the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style.
May 2014
It's time for puppets!
At the end of every year the students have fun making bag puppets with all my leftover paper scraps. Here's Mrs. Elkoury's 1st grade class showing off their creations.
What is the difference between random and organized design? First the students all placed their pens and pencils in the middle of the table. They made a random design because they hadn't planned how to arrange them. Next they worked together to plan an organized and ordered design. (See examples below) We looked at quilt designs and then made paper quilt squares in both random and ordered designs.
May 12 Art and Author's Night!
The students learned about texture and created Aztec birds by rolling out model magic and pressing tools into it to create patterns and texture. When it was dry they added watercolor over the top. They turned out beautiful!
April 2014
We were inspired by Georges Rouault's expressive painting of Christ done in 1905.
Check out the beautiful drawings below of Christ with a crown of thorns done by Mrs. Elkoury's 1st grade and Mrs. Gray's 2nd grade classes.
We were inspired by Georges Rouault's expressive painting of Christ done in 1905.
Check out the beautiful drawings below of Christ with a crown of thorns done by Mrs. Elkoury's 1st grade and Mrs. Gray's 2nd grade classes.
March 2014
We have been seeing green! In honor of St. Patrick's Day and Dr. Suess's birthday, the students mixed colors to make different shades of green to decorate their Suess-like creatures. The background is made of chalk rubbings.
We have been seeing green! In honor of St. Patrick's Day and Dr. Suess's birthday, the students mixed colors to make different shades of green to decorate their Suess-like creatures. The background is made of chalk rubbings.
February 2014
Are you hungry? How many ingredients can you put in your sandwich? We are learning about shapes.
Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs meets Magritte! This month we have been learning about Rene Magritte and his painting Golconda. Do you see any similarities? This painting was the inspiration for the project shown below.
To learn more about Magritte click on this link:
http://www.renemagritte.org/golconda.jsp
January 2014
We have been learning about the color wheel and what happens when you mix the 3 primary colors. Yellow and blue make green. Blue and red make purple. Red and yellow make orange. At the end of class the students mixed up all the colors together to find out what color they would make. (Most everyone got some shade of mud.) This was most fun...but very messy! Sorry if paint got on anyone's clothes!
We have been learning about the color wheel and what happens when you mix the 3 primary colors. Yellow and blue make green. Blue and red make purple. Red and yellow make orange. At the end of class the students mixed up all the colors together to find out what color they would make. (Most everyone got some shade of mud.) This was most fun...but very messy! Sorry if paint got on anyone's clothes!
The students were given a water bottle, tape, string, magnets, paper, pencils, scissors and paper clips and were asked to come up with an invention using those items. Some of the ideas were flying machines, boats, cars, containers to hold things in,, instruments to pick things up with and many other imaginative inventions. The students were really engaged in this activity and the art room was abuzz with chatter and possibilities. See photos below to see some of their creations!
December 2013
Hark the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new born king!"
Below are the little churches that came home over the Christmas break. Hope they adorned your tables with led lights illuminating the stained glass.
The students are hard at work on their Christmas Churches. Now you can see what we were saving all those milk cartons for!
1st trimester 2013
November 2013
Thanksgiving! Below are pilgrims getting ready for their Thanksgiving feast!
November 2013
The students have been learning about the Spanish cathedral "The Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona. The architect Antoni Gaudi designed it to honor God and provide a beautiful place to worship him. To see pictures click on this link: http://www.gaudiclub.com/ingles/i_vida/i_menu.html
The students have been learning about the Spanish cathedral "The Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona. The architect Antoni Gaudi designed it to honor God and provide a beautiful place to worship him. To see pictures click on this link: http://www.gaudiclub.com/ingles/i_vida/i_menu.html
Whoooooooooooooo was learning about the art element form and creating clay owls?
September/October 2013
We're off to a great start! The students have been busy drawing, painting and gluing. Check out the artists and their work below!
We have been studying the artist Gustav Klimt and the students designed their version of The Tree of Life. Below are examples from Mrs. Catlin's 3rd grade class. To learn more about Gustav Klimt click on this link: http://artfiles.art.com/images/nav/artifacts/klimt_tree.swf
In art class we do a lot of sharing of art materials, so we enjoyed reading about "The Rainbow Fish" and how he learned about selfishness. Check out Mrs. Cogan's 2nd grade class rainbow fish made with oil pastels, water color and sequins.
In September we started off the year with a self portrait using tissue paper and glue and then drawing over it once it was dry. Here are Mrs. Elkoury's 1st grade class portraits.