Fourth grade artists wrote a story in their writing class and created a comic in art to show their story. We looked at different example of comics to see how a comic artist can use images and a few words to tell a story. We looked at different layouts and saw how they showed the …
Second and third grade artists in Mrs. Abu-Rus’s class have been experimenting with different materials to create monoprints! They used paint, string, brushes, brayers, cut paper, forks, bubble wrap, markers and explored to see what different designs they could make with their prints. Some artists chose to print many layers on each paper. Each artist …
Young five artists created spring time birds out of chalk in the art room! They sketched their bird in pencil, colored with chalk, used their finger to blend the chalk, and then some artists chose to add an outline or details with oil pastels.
First grade artists are reviewing warm and cool colors and created these warm or cool colored guitar collages. They created two painted papers using a variety of materials and tools and made sure both papers were cool or both were warm. Then we looked at a ukulele and all of its different parts. Each artist …
Kindergarten and young 5’s artists created self-portraits! They began by mixing a color that they thought best matched their skin color. They drew all of the parts of their face and painted their hair with colors and styles that matched their own.
Each class is studying a different country for our school’s World Fair Day. In the art room, students created a project that showed something about the country their class was studying. Some classes looked at the landscapes of their country, others looked at the architecture, the artwork, traditions, products from their country, or famous landmarks. …
Every student in grades 1st-5th created two squares to add to our school mural that is hanging outside of the art room! We talked about positive and negative space and created two squares that were “opposites” and had the colors of the positive and negative spaces switch.
The artists in Mrs. Davidson’s young 5’s class created these flower mono-prints for Spring! They painted and mixed colors on top of their printing plate, drew a flower with a q-tip, and then put a paper on top to make a print! Since each print is made from a new drawing and they all look …
Third grade artists in Ms. Donoghue’s class are studying the country of China for culture day! In art class, we looked at ink wash paintings from China and created our own showing plants or animals that live in China. Each artist drew their plant or animal from China first, and then practiced using the ink …