Second and third grade artists in Mrs. Abu-Rus’s class have been experimenting with different materials to create monoprints! They used paint, string, brushes, brayers, cut paper, forks, bubble wrap, markers and explored to see what different designs they could make with their prints. Some artists chose to print many layers on each paper. 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.
Second grade artists are learnign about the three dimensional shapes. They learned how to draw many of the forms with charcoal. Similar to how we learned to add a shadow to our snowmen to make them look round, we use shadows or value to make a 3-D shape look more 3-D.
Second grade artists read the story “Snowmen at Night” by Caralyn Buehner in the art room. Each artist created their own drawing of what snowmen might do at night if they came to life! We used oil pastels to add color to our drawings and learned how to blend or mix colors using oil pastels. …
Second grade artists looked at artwork that has radial symmetry with Ms. McGowan, our student teacher! The artwork we looked at was from Pennsylvania and was called a Hex Design. These designs were usually hung on barns for good luck. Just like a hexagon has six sides, our hex designs have six sections. Each artist …
Second grade artists learned about value, perspective, implied texture, and silhouettes as they created these winter tree art pieces with our student teacher, Ms. McGowan! They began by creating tints of a color while painting a night sky with a moon. A tint is created when white is mixed with a color. Then they created …
Second and third grade artists in Mrs. Abu-Rus’s class looked at the artwork of Romero Britto a couple of weeks ago. Then they created their own brightly colored paintings of a familiar object filled with patterns and designs. Many of us chose pumpkins for our object since it was the Halloween season!
Second grade artists read the book “The Lima Bean Monster” by Dan Yaccarino and practiced drawing their own Lima Bean Monster. Each artist learned how to have their monster show an emotion or expression by changing the facial features like the mouth, eyebrows, and eyes. Then we learned about implied texture and each artist added …
Second grade artists looked at the artist Keith Haring and noticed that he was able to show figures moving in his artwork. We practiced drawing people in action poses and took turns posing for our table to draw. We chose our favorite pose and draw it with crayon on our final paper. Then we painted …