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 …
Kindergarten and young 5 artists have created paper line sculptures! They learned how to use the glue bottles and how to bend, fold, roll, and glue their papers so that they could show different kinds of lines in a 3-d artwork!
First grade artists began the year by reviewing some of the lines and shapes we learned about last year. They used these lines and shapes together to create drawings of rocket ships.
Kindergarten artists learned all about LINES on their second day of art class! They learned the names of many lines and then practiced drawing them. They used a pipe-cleaner to practice bending some of the lines. Then they added their pipe-cleaner to our wild line sculpture! They ended class by creating lines with modeling clay.
Welcome back to another wonderful year at Geer Park! Every artist in the school started this year by making 1/4 of a circle shape and filled it with designs and their initials. Then they worked together as a table to create a circle with each of their shapes. All of our individual pieces look nice …
For the last art class of the year, third grade artists were able to experiment with monoprinting! We will learn more about this process next year!