4th Grade

I’m going to try to (briefly) catch you up on what each grade has been up to here at Salina.  Let’s start with 4th grade!

These “watercolor” cupcakes were inspired by artist Wayne Thiebaud and his delicious looking paintings of cakes, pies, and other sweets.

We outlined our drawings with black permanent marker and then outlined on the inside of those lines with colorful waterbased markers.  Students then used a wet paintbrush to paint over the colorful marker causing it to bleed and turn into paint!

It gives you a very cool painterly effect and magically adds value!

This next project focused on creating a cityscape and we used the work of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein to help us.  We discussed what made a cityscape and how it was different from a previous project where we made a landscape.  We only we able to use primary colors, replicating the comic book feel of Lichtenstein’s work.  Each cityscape also had to include a sun in the style of the Lichtenstein painting below.

Lastly, students added the Benday dots that Lichtenstein was famous for using.