First and second grade artists in Mrs. Salami’s class are learning about FORMS, or 3D shapes. Each artist practiced drawing five of the 3D shapes they are leaning in the art room. We learned that if we show multiple sides and a shadow, we can make a drawing look 3D. Then each artist cut out …
Fifth grade created Chinese New Year dragons to celebrate the Chinese New Year on January 28th of this year. They began by making an origami dragon head. Then they created a body and added some decorations. Each artist stuck to an analogous color scheme, where they only used three colors that are next to each …
Kindergarten artists created penguin collages in the art room! They began by drawing snowflakes with white crayons on a white paper. Then they painted over the snowflakes with cool colors (green, blue, and purple) to reveal the snowflakes. This is a watercolor resist technique! Then they cut out the parts of a penguin using …
Fifth grade artists have been learning about cropping a composition in the art room. We talked about different reasons why an artist would choose to bring focus to part of a subject matter, or why they would crop an image to create emphasis. They also have been learning about oil pastels, why they were invented and …
After learning about Claes Oldenburg, fourth grade artists looked at the Pop Art from other artists, including Andy Warhol. We looked at his prints that showed something from popular culture and repeated over and over again in the artwork. Each artist carved something they felt like they see over and over again in their world on …
First grade artists used the element of SHAPE in their artwork. We looked at the artwork of Mary Blair and some of her castle paintings. We noticed how they were made out of smaller shapes all added together to make the castle. Each artist cut out some of their own shapes and glued them together …