Fourth grade artists have been learning about the color wheel in the art room! They each created their own color wheels by mixing the primary colors to create the secondary and tertiary colors. Then they painted around their color wheel to turn it into something new.
Fourth grade artists learned how to draw using one-point perspective in the art room! Drawing with these one-point perspective steps can help to show space in a two-dimensional artwork.
Fourth grade artists wrote a story in their writing class and created a comic in art to show their story. We looked at different example of comics to see how a comic artist can use images and a few words to tell a story. We looked at different layouts and saw how they showed the …
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.
Fourth grade artists have been working very hard on creating their own tree house sculptures! They began by building a tree out of recycled materials and adding paper mache on top of it to make it stronger. Then they used cardboard and other recycled materials to build a house that would fit into their trees. …
Fourth grade artists created pumpkin life cycle triptychs with the help of our student teacher, Ms. McGowan! They began by learning about the life cycle of a pumpkin and the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Then they sketched three of the pumpkin’s life cycle stages (flower and vine, green pumpkin, and orange pumpkin), trying to include as …
Fourth grade artists created Zentangle landscapes for their first art project this year! We learned about Zentangles and how they can be calming to make by repeating designs to make a pattern. We also learned about line variation and how having a variety of line types can make an artwork more interesting to look at. …
Fourth grade artists drew and painted their own mandalas! We began by learning about mandalas and about radial symmetry. Each artist began their drawing by drawing at least four lines of symmetry that went around a circle. Then they added shapes and lines to show radial symmetry by drawing the same design in each part …
One fourth grade class was ahead of schedule and was able to create a crayon-transfer drawing during one art class. They got their papers ready by coloring with chalk and then crayon on top of the chalk on one half of their paper. Then they used a sharp pencil to draw a design that would …