First grade artists learned about the art of fish printing called Gyotaku from Japan. They each created a few fish prints with rubber fish and markers. Then they created an ocean background by using a watercolor resist with watercolor paints, white crayons, and salt. They glued their fish to their water painting and drew other …
First grade artists created these beautiful chalk flower creations! Each table looked at some of Ms. Bruce’s flowers and tried to draw as many details that they saw on their flower as they could. Not every flower looks the same! They then traced their flower drawings with glue and colored in the spaces with colored …
First grade artists have been learning about symmetry in the art room! They cut out a symmetrical shaped mask by folding a paper in half and cutting out half of their mask shape, then opening up the paper to reveal the full shape. Whatever shapes and designs they added to one side of the mask …
First grade artists are reviewing warm and cool colors and created these warm or cool colored guitar collages. They created two painted papers using a variety of materials and tools and made sure both papers were cool or both were warm. Then we looked at a ukulele and all of its different parts. Each artist …
Each class is studying a different country for our school’s World Fair Day. In the art room, students created a project that showed something about the country their class was studying. Some classes looked at the landscapes of their country, others looked at the architecture, the artwork, traditions, products from their country, or famous landmarks. …
Every student in grades 1st-5th created two squares to add to our school mural that is hanging outside of the art room! We talked about positive and negative space and created two squares that were “opposites” and had the colors of the positive and negative spaces switch.
First grade artists are learning about the Philippines in their classrooms for culture day on March 6th. In the art room, we looked at Banig mats that are woven in the Philippines for sleeping and sitting on. Each artist was able to create their own weaving using paper. They created a “loom” to weave on …
First grade artists looked at some of the cubism paintings by Pablo Picasso. We looked at how he could show more than one side of people or objects all at once. Each artist created their own Picasso-inspired portrait by showing more than one thing about their subject at once. Some artists showed more than one …
First grade artists learned about the secondary colors in art class! They each were able to mix the three secondary colors from the primary colors on three different papers. Some artists choose to splatter paint with white paint on top of their purple painted paper, since this would be their sky. Then each artist added …
First grade artists are learning about light in their classroom and also did a project that uses light in the art room! We looked at how light can travel through certain materials, like windows, how some materials let some light pass through, like tissue paper, and some materials block the light from going through and …