Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Art Room Closed for the Summer, except for Art Camp!!!



The last two days of art meant cleaning cleaning cleaning, all that learning and exploring made a little bit of a mess over the course of the year :). Even some of the students pitched in and helped!!!! A huge thanks to 6A for the scrubbing and marker testing and all those fun little odd jobs.

Thanks for cleaning my sink 6A, it took so long you grew a beard


All cleaned and covered!






Art Camp



Paper Mache Metallic Fish Pinatas 
(Turned 3d sculpture because the girls didnt wants to break them open)
Side View of another fish!


Missing the pupil of the eyes, but another fish!

Project #2: Recycled magazine beads turned into Bracelets!!

Project #3: Frog Patterned Painting :)


the girls working!







Finished!

Finished!



 Project #4: Wire/Masking Tape Figure sculptures!

Handstand! 






All the girls


Last Projects!!

4th grade artists explored using tissue paper to create this very fun technique that almost looks like tie-dye!! Students drew the statue of liberty after a discussion on the history of the very important american symbol of freedom.








What a perfect end to the school year, Happy Summer!!!

Golden Crayon Winner!! 5B!!

CONGRATS 5B!!

1st grade Paper Mache Roosters!

1st grade artists critiqued the artwork from Artist Miro "El Coq" and created their very own roosters using newspaper to create form and the process of paper mache to turn it into a rooster!! Students had a blast getting messy...well most of them :) 



















Sunday, June 9, 2013

Golden Crayon Winner: 1A


Projects, Projects, Projects

Well I cant believe that the end of the year is around the corner, as all the classes finish up returning to learn about local artists and art from the United states, I am behind on posting a few projects. Below are 2 projects from Japan.






Preschool Artists learned about artists Salvador Dali and Surrealism!! We discussed his painting shown below and added our very own spin to it. I encouraged artists to use their imagination to put things that would not be found in our realistic world together, similar to what Dali did.










 4th grade artists learned about Japanese Notan Designs students discuss two parts working together to achieve balance and harmony. We discussed positive and negative space as well as complimentary colors and students goal was to achieve balance between what was cut out and what remained.









5th grade: students learned about contemporary artist Kimmy Cantrell, and his expressive faces. Cantrell used clay to make his faces, but 5th grade students used cardboard to create a bas, or low relief along with oil pastels to create these fun faces.





Kindergarten Artists: Learned about tints and shades (tint= color plus white, shade= color plus black) and created these fun ice cream cones!