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.
Third grade artists in Ms. Donoghue’s class are studying the country of China for culture day! In art class, we looked at ink wash paintings from China and created our own showing plants or animals that live in China. Each artist drew their plant or animal from China first, and then practiced using the ink …
Third grade artists created a shape drawing using one-point perspective. This drawing technique uses one vanishing point and can make objects appear to be moving further away from you as they get smaller moving towards the vanishing point. They also practiced making tints and shades of a color by mixing or blending one color …
Third grade artists created coil bowls! They began by learning a little about clay and the ceramic-making process. They also had the chance to practice making a small coil piece that would be used for a later project. Then they were able to make their own bowls using coils! The second and third grade artists …
Third grade artists created these weaving designs on burlap fabric! They began by looking at Native American artwork, and focused on Native American weavings for inspiration. Using a scrap piece of burlap, artists were able to take out some of the weft strings to weave in yarn, cardboard pieces, beads, and pipe cleaners! Each artist …
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!
We had a very busy day on Halloween at Geer Park! The classes that had art that day put their projects aside for the day and created pumpkin-inspired artwork to take home, since most of the classes had to trick-or-treat around the track during part of their art class. Third grade learned how to …
Third grade artists created sunflower still lifes inspired by Vincent Van Gogh! We learned about how to draw the details we SEE, not what we are imagining for a still life. Each artist drew the sunflowers as they saw them and then we painted our sunflower still lives. The last step was to add …