The first and second grade artists in Mrs. Salami’s class created a falling leaves painting at the beginning of autumn! Artists looked at different kinds of leaves and drew several of them on their paper. Since leaves fall off of the tress in fall, some artists chose to add white lines to make the leaves …
First grade artists began the year by looking at the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We reviewed horizontal and vertical lines as well as the primary colors as each artist glued down primary color rectangles and printed black lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhYBqbw8hA&feature=youtu.be
Second grade artists began the year by looking at the collage artwork of Henri Matisse. Each artist cut out geometric shapes as well as free form shapes as they refreshed their scissor skills from last year. The shapes were all glued down to show overlapping for their collages.
Kindergarten artists began the year by learning about LINE, an element of design! They learned the line names, drew lines, painted lines, and created line sculptures! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K25LLDfZ9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ml8ONIfxeE
First grade artists began the school year by practicing their lines that they learned last year in Kindergarten. Each artist drew a rocket ship in outer space, and then added the lines they remembered from last year to show that the rocket ship was flying away!
On the first day of art class this year each artist practiced our art room procedures. Then, everyone made their own monochromatic self portrait for our Welcome Back Mural. We learned that monochromatic means ‘one color’ and we colored our self portraits with just one color. A self-portrait is a picture an artist draws of themselves! Once …
For the last art class of the school year, second grade artists looked at some of the lighthouses in Michigan and discussed what the job of a lighthouse is. Each artist drew and colored a lighthouse, painted a background, and then glued the lighthouse to the background.
Fifth grade artists looked at artwork that shows optical illusions for the last day of art class this year. We noticed how making shapes smaller, or moving lines a certain way can trick our eyes into thinking we are seeing something that we are not. Each artist chose one of the six op art options …
Fifth grade artists worked on self portraits for their last project of the school year. They began by making their paper look like a phone, tablet, or computer. Then they drew themselves as if they had taken a selfie and made it the background image. Everyone added apps that showed things they like to do. …
Third grade artists looked at some of Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings. Then, they chose a flower from the art room to draw as large as they could. The last step was to paint and to create tints with white on the petals.