First grade artists are learning about the Philippines in their classrooms for culture day on March 6th. In the art room, we looked at Banig mats that are woven in the Philippines for sleeping and sitting on. Each artist was able to create their own weaving using paper. They created a “loom” to weave on …
All of the kindergarten classes have been learning about the United States of America in their classrooms. They are presenting about what they learned at Culture Day. While they were learning about some of the symbols of America, they had a chance to draw and paint these symbols in the art room. Young 5’s created …
Second grade artists are learnign about the three dimensional shapes. They learned how to draw many of the forms with charcoal. Similar to how we learned to add a shadow to our snowmen to make them look round, we use shadows or value to make a 3-D shape look more 3-D.
Young 5’s artists have been learning about shapes in the art room, as well as practicing cutting and gluing. They made these shape monsters after reading a monster story. They cut out the shapes they chose and glued them together to resemble a monster!
Third grade artists created a shape drawing using one-point perspective. This drawing technique uses one vanishing point and can make objects appear to be moving further away from you as they get smaller moving towards the vanishing point. They also practiced making tints and shades of a color by mixing or blending one color …