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 …
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 …
First grade artists looked at some of the cubism paintings by Pablo Picasso. We looked at how he could show more than one side of people or objects all at once. Each artist created their own Picasso-inspired portrait by showing more than one thing about their subject at once. Some artists showed more than one …
While learning about shapes in the art room, Kindergarten artists created these robot collages by cutting and gluing shapes. Some artists chose to add extra details to their robots with markers and sequins.