This Year in Art

This Year in Art ...

In 3rd, 4th and 5th grades, we started the year by using our creativity to take some events that happened over summer break and embelish those ideas to turn them into an exciting movie premise. We designed the movie cover (DVD jacket) for our newly created movie, including a plot summary, staring actors, a catchy title and some excellent artwork.	All students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade studied Theodore Seuss Geisel, aka "Dr. Seuss" and were inspired by his work. Third graders invented their own Dr. Seuss-like characters, 4th grade did detailed character studies of some of their favorite Dr. Seuss characters, and 5th grade invented their own Seussian-inspired landscape with a few familiar faces thrown in for good measure. 5th grade 3rd grade 4th grade
First and second graders studied the color wheel, learning primary, secondary, and intermediate colors. First graders drew butterflies and second graders turned the color wheel into a pattern hand design using crayons and markers!
Kindergarten students have learned all about the different elements of art including lines, shapes, texture, and colors. As a fun review, we put some shaving cream on the table and practiced what we have learned by drawing lines, shapes and even spelling a few words in the white foam. In Mrs. Reed's class, however, we did not count on having a fire drill during our shaving cream fun. Down the stairs and outside we went without touching a thing (in "stick up" fashion!) WOW! What a sight we were!	Next, Kindergarten students learned about Jim Dine and how he is an American artist who loved to do paintings of hearts. We used hearts to create a work of art using positive and negative space!
First grade students have been working hard to learn the difference in cool and warm colors. They have drawn 2 cityscapes - "Hot Town" and "Cool City" to demonstrate which colors belong in which group. They have also worked on drawing skills, using rulers, spelling and outlining control with this project.	Our next 1st grade project was drawing from real life, using household tools - hole punch, garden shovel, scissors, paint roller, staplers, strainer, etc. We were inspired by the art of American artist Jim Dine and his detail tool drawings.
An "Out of This World" space project was the next 1st grade lesson. We each built a spaceship in relief and adding it to our outer space painting including aliens or astronaut and even other planets!	Our next 5th grade project was drawing from real life, using household tools - hole punch, garden shovel, scissors, paint roller, staplers, strainer, etc. We were inspired by the art of American artist Jim Dine and his detail tool drawings. we then turned our drawings into monochromatic paintings, mixing all the shades and tints of the chosen color.
The 2nd grade students reviewed color mixing ideas and used their skills to make an array of assorted colorful gumballs using only the primary colors. They had to blend colors, using only red, yellow, blue, black and white.	Second graders then learned about Paul Cezanne and how he mastered the art of the Still Life. We created our own still life collage from different papers and even added shadows where the light doesn't shine!
The 3rd graders studied American artist, Stuart Davis and how his art was influenced by busy city life. We also learned that he used a lot of letters, color, shapes and movement in his work. We based our creations on a complementary color scheme and created balanced compositions by using the letters of our initials and the numbers of the year we were born.	Next, 3rd graders learned about American artist Jim Dine's love of tools and how to use oil pastels to create value in their work. They demonstrated how with just 3 colors, they could create a gradation from dark to light.
Fourth grade students learned about American artist, Stuart Davis and how his art was influenced by busy city life. We also learned that he used a lot of letters, color, shapes and movement in his work. Students selected a letter of the alphabet to work with in creating an interesting composition using overlapping, and filling the space. They then chose a color scheme - either - primary, secondary, warm, or cool to use in their positive spaces. Negative spaces were colored with neutral colors.	Fourth graders then discovered American artist Jim Dine's love of tools and how to use charcoal to create value in their work. The tricky part was not letting the dark areas overtake the lighter areas and to try to maintain at least 5 different values in our artwork.
Kindergarten students learned about texture and created their "ArchiTEXTURE" cities!	Fourth graders created clay sculptures of aliens, cartoon characters, family members, and other creative heads! See who you might recognize!
The 5th graders studied American Artist, Stuart Davis and how his art was influenced by busy city life. We also learned that he used a lot of letters, color, shapes and movement in his work, creating theme-like collages. Each student then choose a theme to illustrate in making their own collage. Can you guess what the theme is?	Kindergarten has learned a lot about lines, shapes and colors. They even made a color wheel out of the 3 primary play-doh colors, red, yellow, and blue. They had to mix colors to make the secondary colors or green, orange, and violet.
More to Come....