Welcome back to a new school year! On the first day of art class this year all students looked at the artwork of street artist Kelsey Montague. She creates large, public murals of wings and encourages people to take pictures posing with her wings using the hashtag #WhatLiftsYou. We took inspiration from her and …
Fifth grade artists ended their school year with an OP art project, and some artists had time to squeeze in one or two more extra projects. We looked at different optical illusions and OP art that appeared to be moving but wasn’t or that tricked our eyes into thinking something was happening that really wasn’t. …
For their last project of the year, third grade artists looked at the artwork of James Rizzi. Each artist created their own cityscape that had a personality and other elements from their imagination. After drawing their buildings, faces, and other details, they painted using a watercolor resist.
With the last class before the end of the school year, second grade artists created a quick Michigan lighthouse painting. We looked at some images of light houses in Michigan and many of our artists have seen them before! Everyone painted their own background and while that was drying, drew and cut out a lighthouse. …
First and second grade artists in Mrs. Salami’s class created chalk landscapes for their last project of the school year. We began by looking at and learning about landscapes. Each artist chose an environment to show in their landscape and drew with pencil first, then glue. Because we were drawing with glue, everyone had to …
Fourth grade artists drew and painted their own mandalas! We began by learning about mandalas and about radial symmetry. Each artist began their drawing by drawing at least four lines of symmetry that went around a circle. Then they added shapes and lines to show radial symmetry by drawing the same design in each part …
One fourth grade class was ahead of schedule and was able to create a crayon-transfer drawing during one art class. They got their papers ready by coloring with chalk and then crayon on top of the chalk on one half of their paper. Then they used a sharp pencil to draw a design that would …
Fifth grade artists did some weaving this year, too! They turned a piece of a frame matt into a loom by measuring and cutting notches on each side and adding a warp string. They learned how to add shapes and fringe and some artists learned a soumak stitch. They were all able to use these …
Kindergarten artists made castles painting! Each artist drew their own castle after looking at different examples of castles from around the world. They used a combination of the shapes and lines that we have been learning about all year. They also were introduced to warm and cool color families and colored around their castle …
Fourth grade artists learned how to draw using One-point perspective! This method of drawing shows things in a more three-dimensional way and shows how objects appear smaller the further they are from you. We started by practicing together to learn the steps and then each artist created their own scene using one point perspective. Then …