Fourth grade artists began the school year working with the element of LINE. Each artist drew a landscape and, instead of the normal details and texture of a landscape, they added Zentangle designs. After creating 8 or more Zentangle designs, each artist painted their sky with only warm or only cool colors and then painted …
The first and second grade artists in Mrs. Salami’s class created a falling leaves painting at the beginning of autumn! Artists looked at different kinds of leaves and drew several of them on their paper. Since leaves fall off of the tress in fall, some artists chose to add white lines to make the leaves …
First grade artists began the year by looking at the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We reviewed horizontal and vertical lines as well as the primary colors as each artist glued down primary color rectangles and printed black lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhYBqbw8hA&feature=youtu.be
Second grade artists began the year by looking at the collage artwork of Henri Matisse. Each artist cut out geometric shapes as well as free form shapes as they refreshed their scissor skills from last year. The shapes were all glued down to show overlapping for their collages.
Kindergarten artists began the year by learning about LINE, an element of design! They learned the line names, drew lines, painted lines, and created line sculptures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K25LLDfZ9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ml8ONIfxeE
First grade artists began the school year by practicing their lines that they learned last year in Kindergarten. Each artist drew a rocket ship in outer space, and then added the lines they remembered from last year to show that the rocket ship was flying away!
On the first day of art class this year each artist practiced our art room procedures. Then, everyone made their own monochromatic self portrait for our Welcome Back Mural. We learned that monochromatic means ‘one color’ and we colored our self portraits with just one color. A self-portrait is a picture an artist draws of themselves! Once …