Kindergarten Our youngest “owls” began the year by learning about color mixing. After reading the book Mouse Paint as a class, students created an abstract art inspired painting. Within each painting you will find our three secondary colors: green, orange, and purple. First Grade The first project of 1st grade was all about lines. Students used oil pastels to draw different kinds of lines on watercolor paper. Next, they had to choose two primary colors to mix and make a secondary color to paint over the lines. Since water and oil don't mix, it creates a neat effect! To finish the project students mounted their art on black paper and created a patterned border. During the project students looked at famous abstract artworks, as well. Our second project was to create a paper fishbowl. Students learned how combining different materials can make a work of art (collage), and a little about fish! We also learned about some of the dangers fish face, from overfishing to pollution. Second Grade Our 2nd grade students began the year learning about the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe and created soft pastel flower drawings. Students created their flowers the way Georgia did, as though they were magnified. Currently, students are exploring printmaking by creating leaf prints! Using a new technique (new to Olive at least), students drew a leaf onto a thin piece of foam. Next, they used marker to color the surface with warm colors (red, orange, and yellow). This foam piece was then pressed firmly onto a piece of moist paper and voila, a print was made. We also discussed why leaves change colors during autumn. Third Grade Olive’s 3rd graders began the year by weaving patterned paper baskets! Segments from the PBS series Craft in America showed us basket weavers in America and students learned that basket weaving is not only a useful skill but an art form. Currently, 3rd graders are making outer space scenes with oil and soft pastels on black paper. We love connecting to students’ classroom curriculum to create “out of this world” works of art! Fourth Grade Olive's 4th grade students learned about the life and work of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Using oil pastels, they selected their favorite painting to recreate, then mounted it on brown construction paper. Using Google Cultural Institute’s amazing website, which allowed us to look very closely at his paintings, students discovered how van Gogh applied his paint: in thick, overlapping dashes. They tried to use the same technique in their own work. Fifth Grade Our 5th grade students are completing a drawing project in which they invented a superhero! One requirement was the superhero must fight a world problem, such as natural disasters, lack of access to safe drinking water, war, etc. In class, we discussed what it means to be a hero and how we can use Character Counts as a model for our own behavior.
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