First and Second grade artists in Mrs. Salami’s class created Picasso-inspired self-portraits! After looking at some of Picasso’s cubist artwork, each artist drew themselves in a cubist style. They tried to show different parts of their faces from different points of view and changed some of the shapes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgZPN5SC5J8 Oil pastels were used to color …
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
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 …
First grade artists looked at different types of dinosaurs for this art project. They each chose their favorite dinosaur and drew it with black marker. Then they added texture to their dinosaur with crayons and texture plates. They finished by painting their dinosaurs.
First grade artists have been weaving with paper! They began by learning about abstract art and drawing and painting an abstract design during one art class. They reviewed warm and cool color families by using only warm colors or only cool colors in their painting. Then they measured and cut their paper to turn it into …
Mrs. Nasir’s class is studying the country of Yemen! In the art room artists looked at the very detailed silver beads that are made in Yemen. Each artist created beads out of clay and added texture for details. Texture describes the way something feels. When the clay dried, each artist painted their clay beads silver. …
First grade artists looked at the toucan bird that lives in Ecuador where it is warm and humid. First grade students have also been learning a song from Ecuador in music class! The first step was to draw the toucan bird with pencils and trace the pencil lines with oil pastels. Next artists painted with watercolor paints. …
First grade artists have been busy creating guitar collages! Students started by learning about the warm and cool color families. Students used either all warm colors or all cool colors to paint a large sheet of paper. Recycled materials were used to add textures to the painted papers. Next, students began to learn about the …