October Art at Henry Ford

Young 5 and Kindergarten artists painted lines at the beginning of October!

Then they learned about 3 different types of line directions: horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines. They used these to draw a spider web and learned about the primary colors to color in their webs.

Then they used the primary colors to create an abstract city collage inspired by Mondrian’s “Broadway Boogie Woogie”

Then they got to experiment with mixing the primary colors to see what new colors they could make! They used oil pastels, paint, and clay to mix new colors.

Young 5 artists also learned about the rainbow order and created rainbows with crayons and paint-dotters one day of art class.

First grade artists mixed primary colors to make secondary colors and created three secondary color painted papers with added texture lines and designs.

They used these papers to create a pumpkin collage!

Then first grade artists were able to make a piece of jewelry using the bead they had made when learning about secondary colors! They showed a pattern with color or size of beads and put their hand made bead in the center.

Second grade artists used their bubble people paintings that they made in September as inspiration for a wire and plaster sculpture!

They created a stick person out of pipe cleaners, covered it in tape, posed it, and then covered it with plaster strips so it would hold its pose.

Third grade artists finished painting their sunflower still lifes!

Then they looked at Victorian houses and drew their own Victorian house with metallic markers on black paper.

They painted a sky using one color and white to create as many tints as they could. They chose whatever design they wanted for their sky; some artists chose to show a full moon, some showed mountains, some even used splatter paint to show snow falling!

Then they cut their houses out and glued them to their skies.

Fifth grade artists finished drawing and coloring their self-portraits!

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