Art-Room 5
Merryhill Millcreek Celebrates 2016-2017 school year!
A year in review
It has been a fun filled year of learning and improving our creative abilities in Art class. We have explored new techniques, revisited and improved our skills and learned more about art from the past to the present. Here is a sampling of what we did this year. For more art to look at go to our site on Artsonia, https://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=128433. I look forward to the new school year. See you all in the 2017-2018 school year. - Mrs. Howell
Chair Designs - 2nd Grade
Students learn about the furniture designer Craig Nutt. Students select a theme and then design and build their prototype of their chair.
Abstract Painting - Kindergarten
Students learn about the artist Hans Hoffman. Using geometric shapes as their subject, student paint freehand shapes to create their masterpieces.
Marble Painting - Preschool
Students explore different ways to apply paint to a surface using marbles.
Mondrian style Painting - 1st Grade
Students discover the abstract painter Mondrian. Keeping with his style, students create their own grids painting in some areas with the 3 primary colors.
Space PBL t-shirt design - 2nd Grade
Students use their creativity to design t-shirts that go with their presentations of space, planets and aliens.
Ladybug Art inspired by Eric Carle - Kindergarten
Students enjoy the story by Eric Carle The Grouchy Ladybug. Kindergarten learns how to make a 3-D ladybug and then creates a giant leaf for the ladybug to eat.
Turtles made with Paper Mache Mash - 1st Grade
Students learned about turtles in their habitats. They then learned how to create a 3-D turtle using newspaper and foil for the structure and then covering it with Paper Mache mash.
Sun Designs created on Metal sheets - 3rd Grade
The sun designs were developed by looking at different ways artist depict the sun from contemporary ideas, to woodcut designs, metal arts and stone chiseled art from the Mayan culture.
3rd Grade - Printmaking
Students use the Sacramento Bird watching site as a reference to select a bird that they would like to draw. Using the drawing and a transfer method they were able to reproduce and print their bird drawings using a printing plate, printing ink, a brayer and a barren.
4th Grade - Nonobjective Drawing
Part one - Drawing
4th grade students worked on a series of drawings, printmaking and metal arts projects using the same theme in a nonobjective design. Students examined the work of Piet Mondrian and Elizabeth Murray.
4th grade students worked on a series of drawings, printmaking and metal arts projects using the same theme in a nonobjective design. Students examined the work of Piet Mondrian and Elizabeth Murray.
4th Grade - Nonobjective Print
Part 2 - Print
Students used a portion of their original design in a printmaking project.
Students used a portion of their original design in a printmaking project.
Origami Butterflies - 4th Grade
Students learn the ancient art of paper folding Origami butterflies. This art form goes way back to the China in the 1st century and Japan in the 6th century.
Butteryfly Prints - Kindergarten
Students studied butterflies for their PBL project this year. Using a transfer process they reproduced their drawings using a simple printmaking technique.
Preschool Fish Drawings
Students used their skills that they have been practicing all year to create these beautiful fish drawings using circular shapes, triangles and wavy lines.
Butterfly Costumes - Kindergarten
Kindergarten created these beautiful symmetrical butterfly paintings by using the technique of painting on one side of the shape, closing the shape and transferring the design to the other side.
PBL Kindergarten - How does a butterfly grow up differently than a human?
See our fabulous display in the lobby! Kindergarten has been studying all about the butterfly. Included in our project based learning (PBL) they wrote and published a book, "If I were a Butterfly". Ms. S and Mrs. Howell worked together to help our students accomplish this goal.
2nd Grade PBL - What is a solar system and who is there only life on Earth?
Visit our exciting display in the Tech Lab this month! 2nd grade has been very busy this spring learning about the solar system. As apart of this activity fictional writing was included. Students enjoyed writing stories which included aliens to tell us why their character could live on a specific planet based on what they researched. They painted pictures, made prints, created t-shirts and made planet displays.
3rd Grade PBL - How has Sacramento changed over the last 150 years?
Sacramento then and now . . . see our exhibit in the tech lab! 3rd grade has spent 2 months preparing this exhibit with Ms. Poole and Mrs. Howell in our project based learning program (PBL). Come discover what they learned in this extensive project!
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