Fifth grade artists completed a few value exercises and arranged some of them together to make a composition. Value is the lightness or darkness of a color, and adding it to your artwork can create the illusion of 3D space and forms. Each artist created a colored value scale by mixing white with their hue …
Fourth grade artists have been learning how they can use their talents and effort in art to help people in their community! They each created a spoon to be donated to the Empty Bowls fundraiser that the Dearborn art Department holds each year. The money raised at this fundraiser all goes back to help members …
Fifth grade artists have been working with cardboard to build low-relief sculptures! They were focusing on BALANCE and tried to balance their artwork using abstract designs. They could choose to show balance in a way that is symmetrical or asymmetrical. Color and pattern can also be used to help create balance so each artist painted …
Third grade artists learned what a still life is. They created their own still life paintings by looking at flowers at their table and drawing all of the details they could see. They painted their still life drawings and added lines to show texture.
Fifth grade artists have been creating self portraits in the art room! We learned how a self-portrait is an artwork that you make to show yourself to the world; you could either show what you look like or another quality about yourself like how you feel, your interests, your experiences, etc. Each artist showed a …
First grade artists mixed each of the secondary colors using primary colored paint. They used tools to add texture marks into their paint, too. Then they cut shapes for grass and pumpkins and created a pumpkin collage!
Fourth grade artists have been learning about Zentagles, line variation, emphasis, and analogous colors in the art room! They drew an animal, or insect, and filled it with ten or more different Zentangle designs, focusing on pattern and line variation. Then they painted their backgrounds with analogous color watercolor paints.
Kindergarten artists have been learning about lines in the art room and have been making lines out of different materials! They began by learning the names of different types of lines and practiced drawing them with crayons. Then they made different lines with clay. They created their line sculptures with paper and glue. Now they …
Second grade artists read a book that showed an angry monster. Then they practiced drawing different facial expressions by changing parts of the face like the eyebrows, mouth, and eyes. They chose one expression and drew their monster showing that expression. Then we talked about the difference between real texture and implied texture. Every artist …
Six fourth grade artists have been busy painting a Buddy Bench for Geer Park! This bench is a place where students at recess can go if they are looking for somebody new to play with; when someone else sees them sitting on the Buddy Bench they can go and offer to play with them.