During one art class last week when the weather was wonderful, a fifth grade class was able to practice an oil pastel painting en plein air! They learned that this meant they would be creating an oil pastel painting outdoors and tried to mix colors to capture the colors as they saw them. Though it …
First grade artists used the secondary color clay shapes they made earlier this year and their knowledge of patterns to create their own unique necklace!
After their color mixing experiments, first grade artists were given the challenge of making the three secondary colors orange, purple, and green. They used the primary colors to make these and could add extra lines or stamps on top of their colors if they wanted. When their secondary color painted papers were dry, they cut …
Kindergarten artists created another artwork using the three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow! This time they were cutting and gluing squares and rectangles with primary color paper. They used the squares and rectangles to represent things they might see in a city: cars, streets, houses, buildings, etc.
Kindergarten and young 5 artists are continuing to learn about lines; they learned about three directional lines, horizontal, vertical, and diagonal, to make a spider web! They also learned that red, yellow, and blue are called the primary colors. They used the primary colors to color inside of their spider webs.
Second grade artists looked at Keith Haring for their first full art project this year. They noticed that they could tell exactly what movement his “bubble people” were doing, even though they didn’t have details like a face, clothing, or a background to give us hints. We practiced posing and drawing each other in Keith …
Fifth grade artists are learning about self portraits and other types of expressive artwork this year! For our first project, each student drew themselves with half of their face showing things that they enjoy to help people to learn more about them. The other half shows how they look. They used colored pencils to color …
Fourth grade artists are exploring the question “Why do people make art?” this year. For our first project we are looking at a therapeutic or relaxing type of artwork: Zentangles! Some people make artwork as a way to feel calm, and zentangles were invented to do just this! After practicing zentangles, each artist drew a …
Third grade artists began the year with practicing to draw what they see in front of them, not something from their imagination. After drawing their sunflower still life they painted and added crayon lines to show texture, movement, or decoration.
First grade artists reviewed what the primary colors are during one art class by looking at the artwork of Mondrian! They created their own mini-mondrian masterpieces by gluing primary colored rectangles and printing lines with cardboard and black paint. Then they experimented with mixing the primary colors during another art class! They mixed colors with …