Kindergarten has been knee-deep in paint, making giant underwater environments for their sea creatures they drew last week! They’re using texture tools to pull the paint across the paper and create different kinds of lines using all of the cool colors (blue, green, and purple). Next, they’ll dive into a lesson on Jasper Johns and combine their number and letter writing skills with a few art techniques!
First graders are wrapping up their bright still life paintings and beginning a lesson involving symmetry and bugs! We discussed what symmetry is- ask your first grader to find some examples around the house! We also checked out the artwork of Jennifer Angus, which is created using real insects. Your students then began a drawing of an imaginary insect- anything goes as long as it’s symmetrical.
Second graders are finishing their shoe still life paintings and jumping into the wild world of robots- drawing inspiration from Korean American artist Nam June Paik. They’ve dreamed up what their ideal robot would do, and then figured out how to show their robot’s function visually through drawing. Next, they’ll create a paper weaving for a background and add color to the robots.
Third graders virtually ‘travelled’ to Australia and learned about traditional Aboriginal painting. They learned a few drawing tips and tricks (ask your third grader what they can remember) and drew all sorts of animals from photographs. They are working to fill these animals in with dots just like Aboriginal painters would!
Fourth graders are in the midst of a mixed media project, drawing inspiration from traditional African masks to create some fabric faces and African geometric patterns to form backgrounds for their zany creations. I can’t wait to see these completed- your students are doing a great job combining all of the skills needed to finish the project!
Fifth graders wrapped up their origami projects and have moved on to Ming dynasty inspired vases. They created a vase using oil pastel and then made their vases into homemade scratchboards using tempera paint so that they could scratch designs into the paint and reveal the pastel underneath! Next, they’re creating an oil-resist painting with a background and middleground to glue the vase (foreground) to. My only requirements for the background are that it includes some kind of horizon line and differentiates between middleground and background, so the responses to the design problem have been so creative and varied! I cannot wait to display these.
I hope everyone is having a great week- check back for more later, and thanks for taking the time to read.
First graders are wrapping up their bright still life paintings and beginning a lesson involving symmetry and bugs! We discussed what symmetry is- ask your first grader to find some examples around the house! We also checked out the artwork of Jennifer Angus, which is created using real insects. Your students then began a drawing of an imaginary insect- anything goes as long as it’s symmetrical.
Second graders are finishing their shoe still life paintings and jumping into the wild world of robots- drawing inspiration from Korean American artist Nam June Paik. They’ve dreamed up what their ideal robot would do, and then figured out how to show their robot’s function visually through drawing. Next, they’ll create a paper weaving for a background and add color to the robots.
Third graders virtually ‘travelled’ to Australia and learned about traditional Aboriginal painting. They learned a few drawing tips and tricks (ask your third grader what they can remember) and drew all sorts of animals from photographs. They are working to fill these animals in with dots just like Aboriginal painters would!
Fourth graders are in the midst of a mixed media project, drawing inspiration from traditional African masks to create some fabric faces and African geometric patterns to form backgrounds for their zany creations. I can’t wait to see these completed- your students are doing a great job combining all of the skills needed to finish the project!
Fifth graders wrapped up their origami projects and have moved on to Ming dynasty inspired vases. They created a vase using oil pastel and then made their vases into homemade scratchboards using tempera paint so that they could scratch designs into the paint and reveal the pastel underneath! Next, they’re creating an oil-resist painting with a background and middleground to glue the vase (foreground) to. My only requirements for the background are that it includes some kind of horizon line and differentiates between middleground and background, so the responses to the design problem have been so creative and varied! I cannot wait to display these.
I hope everyone is having a great week- check back for more later, and thanks for taking the time to read.