Fifth grade created Chinese New Year dragons to celebrate the Chinese New Year on January 28th of this year. They began by making an origami dragon head. Then they created a body and added some decorations. Each artist stuck to an analogous color scheme, where they only used three colors that are next to each …
Kindergarten artists created penguin collages in the art room! They began by drawing snowflakes with white crayons on a white paper. Then they painted over the snowflakes with cool colors (green, blue, and purple) to reveal the snowflakes. This is a watercolor resist technique! Then they cut out the parts of a penguin using …
Fifth grade artists have been learning about cropping a composition in the art room. We talked about different reasons why an artist would choose to bring focus to part of a subject matter, or why they would crop an image to create emphasis. They also have been learning about oil pastels, why they were invented and …
After learning about Claes Oldenburg, fourth grade artists looked at the Pop Art from other artists, including Andy Warhol. We looked at his prints that showed something from popular culture and repeated over and over again in the artwork. Each artist carved something they felt like they see over and over again in their world on …
First grade artists used the element of SHAPE in their artwork. We looked at the artwork of Mary Blair and some of her castle paintings. We noticed how they were made out of smaller shapes all added together to make the castle. Each artist cut out some of their own shapes and glued them together …
Third grade artists looked at some of the word art of Roy Lichtenstein. Each artist wrote a word that expresses a sound for the subject matter of their artwork. Then they added shapes around the words that were similar to those used in comics. While adding color with markers, they chose at least one …
Fourth grade artists have been learning about the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg and his soft sculptures. Each artist chose a food that they thought was popular or common in their community. They drew it as large as they could, twice, so that their sculpture had a front and a back. They painted their …
Fifth grade artists learned about showing movement in artwork, sculpture, and the artist Alberto Giacometti. They began by posing and creating gesture drawings of each other. The gesture drawings were quick drawings to show what the body is doing as it is moving and does not include any details. They chose one of their gesture …
Kindergarten artists have been mixing the primary colors, red, yellow, and blue, and creating the secondary colors, purple, green, and orange. Each artist had painted black lines when we were still learning about the different types of lines back in September. With red, yellow, and blue paint, each artist experimented to see all of …
Second grade artists have been reviewing TEXTURE, an element of art. They began with a quick owl sketch using shapes and created different textures inside of the owl using texture plates and crayons. Then they had a painting day where they used tempera paints and a variety of texture tools to create textured papers. They …