Second grade artists learned about value, perspective, implied texture, and silhouettes as they created these winter tree art pieces with our student teacher, Ms. McGowan! They began by creating tints of a color while painting a night sky with a moon. A tint is created when white is mixed with a color. Then they created …
First grade artists learned about the secondary colors in art class! They each were able to mix the three secondary colors from the primary colors on three different papers. Some artists choose to splatter paint with white paint on top of their purple painted paper, since this would be their sky. Then each artist added …
While kindergarten artists were learning about the primary colors in the art room our student teacher, Ms. McGowan, introduced them to the artist Jasper Johns and his colorful number paintings. Each artist folded their papers to create boxes and then used the primary colors to paint numbers in each box. They carefully painted around …
Kindergarten artists have been learning about the primary colors! We looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian and saw how he used the primary colors and black lines, so we created our own artwork with primary colors and black lines! Since it was close to Halloween, we created spider webs! Then we looked at …
Fourth grade artists created pumpkin life cycle triptychs with the help of our student teacher, Ms. McGowan! They began by learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin and the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Then they sketched three of the pumpkin’s life cycle stages (flower and vine, green pumpkin, and orange pumpkin), trying to include as …
Our young 5’s class began the year learning about the different types of lines! They practiced drawing lines, painting lines, and creating line sculptures. We learned how you can use all of those lines to create new drawings. Then they learned the rainbow color order. They practiced drawing a rainbow, learned a song about the …