5th grade color temperature artworks

This week the 5th grade class is finishing one assignment and is strating another.  Both assignments revolve around identifying and using color temperatures and the second assignment involves the begining of color mixing.  Students will begin exploring color washes and wet on wet techniques.

 

 

1st grade painting

This week our first grade students continue to learn about the birds eye view using a bowl or plate of apples on a table top.  Students are also learning how to paint and begin to mix paint using a wet on wet technique.  Other techniques we are covering are how to apply the paint to the paper, pull vs. push, easy strokes vs. scrubbing like a mop, how to clean the brush etc.

 

 

6th grade Op Art - Fabric

This week the 6th grade is continuing their study of Op Art.  Students will create an artwork to resemble a sheet of colorful fabric that is being pulled up from it's center and thus is creating undulating folds.  Students selected colors and studied how light hitting the folds of the fabric created light and dark values.

 

 

8th grade Onomatopoeia continued

This week we wrap up our study of onomatopoeia.  Students created or selected a word that fit the onomatopoeia definition and designed a background that would go with their word.

Art 2 - Robert Indiana inspired artworks

This week the Art 2 class has studied Robert Indiana and his Pop Art.  Indiana is known for his hard edge paintings of words, specifically "LOVE".  Students were asked to think of four letter words that would work for this assignment.  They were then asked to consider using three letter words and include a symbol for the fourth space.  It'll be interesting to see what they come up with.

2nd Grade Kandinsky Circles

The 2nd grade class has studied Wassily Kandinsky and his paintings.  After studying his paintings, students began creating their own Kandinsky inspired artworks.  Students used paper plates and after paint was applied to the plate, they stamped the painted plate to their individual papers.  Students had the options of stamping the painted plate and pulling it, or stamping it and turning the painted plate creating a blurred or mixed paint effect.  Students then selected another paint color to add to their painted plate and repeated the process until the desired finished effect was achieved.

 

After the student paintings are dry, students will paint a solid contrasting color around the outside of their painted circles.  Before that, students stood up in front of the class and explained which painting was their favorite, whcih colors they selected and why they liked it the best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was the first time students have been asked to discuss their own work in front of their peers.  For a first time, I think they did well.

Art 1 begins Andy warhol inspired Pop Art paintings

This week, Art 1 began studying the Pop Art movement and different artists associated with it.  Students were asked to create a Warhol inspired artwork using a current "Pop" icon, celebrity or symbol.  Students will recreate that image in each of the 4 squares in their paintings and then select 3 or 4 colors that will enhance their painting.  Some students have selected iconic personalities, others selected well known cartoons and others selected current symbols or icons from fashion, skateboarding or music.

Come on....let me see.

Improvised light table

I really need to apply what I've seen on Pinterest and make another light table from a clear tote and christmas lights.

One Up

Homer....not from The Odyssey.  The other Homer.

Starting to add the color.

3rd grade Wassily Kandinsky murals

Third grade students are finishing their Kandinsky murals.  Students paired up to collaborate on a Wassily Kandinsky inspired mural painting.  Each student selected a side of the railroad board and then developed a connection to unify the two parts of the painting in order to create one whole painting.

After students finish, their murals will be displayed in the elementary gallery hall for all to enjoy.  When these paintings are returned, the murals will be split and seperated and each student will take home their Kandinsky creation.

Onomatopoeia Art with 8th Grade

This week, 8th grade students are studying Onomatopoeia.  We explored campy comic books and discussed the work of Pop Art artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.  Here is a sample of what you'll see soon.
Onomatopoeia: noun \ˌä-nə-ˌmä-tə-ˈpē-ə, -ˌma-\ : the creation of words that imitate natural sounds.

Kablam!!