See the previous post for the story behind these photos! These are mainly Kindergarten, 1st, 4th & 5th graders, as I found myself too busy helping with drawing proportions in the second and third grade groups to remember to take pictures. Drawing people is challenging even for the most talented artists, and they are doing a wonderful job. I'm so excited to see some finished projects in the coming weeks!
This week in art, all grade levels are continuing their “Identity” themed projects from last week!
Kindergarten- Our youngest dolphins dove right into liquid tempera this week, painting their heads, necks, shoulders, and hair on their vibrant color backgrounds from last week! Next week, we will be using solid tempera sticks to add details to our self-portraits. Ask your kids what they learned about color as they worked! First Graders also used liquid tempera on their colored backgrounds- but they are painting their whole bodies for their self-portraits. They used basic shapes to paint their figures- ovals, rectangles, and squares can make a whole person! Next week, they will use solid tempera sticks to add facial features and other details. Second graders have been hard at work on their superhero self-portraits! This week, we talked about our own super-powers and the kids chose one to show in their projects. Next, students learned how to draw a person in motion using shapes like ovals and rectangles! Next week, they will finish up their portraits and begin to add color. Third graders have been making excellent progress on their self-portraits, continuing to use mirrors to draw their faces and using sharpie markers for an outline. I love looking at their drawings- they are turning out so well! Next week, we will explore warm and cool color schemes as well as patterns and motifs (think Gustav Klimt and Kehinde Wiley) to add some visual interest. Fourth and fifth graders are on the home stretch of their inside-out self-portraits, remembering to draw big, overlap, and go off the page to add interest and make the viewer’s eye travel all over their fantastic creations! The ideas they have come up with thus far are awesome- I can’t wait to see these projects finished and be able to show them off in the hallway! Check back in the next few days for some photos from the art room. Thanks for reading, and for sharing your wonderful students with me each week! See my previous post for some explanations of what your little artists have been working on for the past two weeks, and enjoy these photos of the colorful process!
The 2014-15 school year is off to a wonderful start! CSES artists in all six grade levels have been hard at work creating art that focuses on their identity. Each of the classes have talked about how artists use images and pictures to communicate ideas to others. Below is a brief synopsis about what your students have been up to in the art room! Be sure to check back for pictures later this week.
Kindergarten: Self-portraits. The students created backgrounds for their self-portraits using liquid watercolors! We got to be scientists in the art room and mix colors to find out what kinds of new colors we could create. We will be painting self-portraits on these colorful backgrounds in the coming weeks. First Grade: Self-portraits. First graders used liquid watercolors to create colorful backgrounds, reviewing the concepts of color-mixing and recognizing the difference between primary and secondary colors. They will be painting a full-body self-portrait on top of these backgrounds! Second Grade: Superhero Self-portraits. Second graders looked at the work of Roy Lichtenstein (an American artist associated with the pop art movement) and are drawing inspiration from his comic-and-commercial-art-inspired paintings. This week, they are creating backgrounds using "Ben-Day" dots by printing paint with bubble-wrap. Later, they will choose their own "super-power" (maybe they're creative, athletic, funny, brainy, stylish, kind, helpful...the list goes on!) and create their portrait around that concept. Third Grade: Pattern & Pallette Self-portraits. Third graders are working hard to tackle face-proportions by using mirrors to draw themselves! Once they're done, they'll be using either a warm or cool color scheme and patterns to add personality to their portraits. They will get inspiration from patterns that surround us (in nature, on clothing, and of course in ART!), particular artists include Gustav Klimt and Kehinde Wiley. Fourth & Fifth Grade: Inside-Out Self-portraits. Students in fourth and fifth grades have started to create portraits of their personalities and interests. They began brainstorming by filling out a questionnaire about themselves, and I traced the silhouette of their profile on paper. They have been using their answers to the questionnaires as inspiration for things to draw inside their heads. We've also been discussing how artists use images to communicate- and how we can think of many different ways to convey one thought or idea. Stay tuned to see what we do with the silhouettes after they've filled them up! This classroom is an art teacher's dream! I had a lot of fun during the past few weeks working in my new room, making signs and posters and figuring out where to put everything. My panoramic photo of the room is a bit off (see the chalkboard!) but it gives you an idea of what the space looks like as a whole. |
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June 2015
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