What's Happening in the Art Room?
Hello!
We are 7 weeks into school and art projects are well under way! Students are beginning to complete their first artworks of the year, and the results are amazing!!! Read on to find out what students are creating in each grade level.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten students are learning about different types of lines. Last week we discussed the work of Jackson Pollock and tried to find as many different types of lines as we could within his paintings. This week students will be completing a marble painting, taking their inspiration from Jackson Pollock. Students will roll paint covered marbles around and over their paper trying to create various types of lines!
1st Grade
1st grade just finished their Piet Mondrian artworks. They are hanging outside the art room and they look beautiful! The next project for 1st grade is learning about Keith Haring. Students will be discussing lines and movement within Haring’s works and will practice drawing each other. 1st graders will complete two artworks inspired by Haring: an individual artwork and a group painting.
2nd Grade
2nd grade is finishing up with their gecko artworks which focus on patterns. Students looked at different types of geckos and discussed the various patterns they saw on the gecko’s bodies. Students then drew their own geckos and had to fill their bodies with at least five different types of patterns. The final step for the geckos, was to draw a large leaf for them to rest on. I can’t wait to see all of these geckos displayed in the hallway soon!
3rd Grade
3rd grade is completing their line and shape artworks inspired by the surrealist painter Joan Miró. Students ‘took a dot for a walk’ in order to create their overlapping lines and colored the resulting shapes using markers. The final step was to add a few final black shapes and/or lines using black construction paper. The next project for 3rd grade will be focusing on radial and symmetrical balance.
4th Grade
4th grade students have just finished their bad hair day artworks, and they are all definitely having a bad hair day!! Students learned about face proportions and features while creating their artworks. Students filled the hair of their artworks with different types of lines and patterns. The finishing touch was to trace the projects with Sharpie markers. Next, 4th grade students will be learning how to depict different emotions in a printmaking project.
5th Grade
Next week 5th grade students should be finishing up their name projects focusing on perspective and value. Students learned about perspective and how to depict something 3-D on a 2-D surface. Students used one point perspective to draw their names in block letters and create their perspective lines disappearing at the vanishing point. They then colored their artworks with different values of one hue or color. The next project for 5th grade will be focusing on foreground, middle ground, and background.