Hi! As spring break approaches here's an update on the happenings of the art room. Kindergarten, first, and second grade students all took home their portfolios filled with artwork. If you still have it at home please bring it back. Third grade students attended the 9th annual Clay Night in February. During Clay Night kids work on a clay piece with a parent! Fourth graders have their Art Institute field trip to look forward to this May, with more information coming soon. They also sent postcards in the mail that we created in class and will be taking home a food related project (read description below). Happy spring! KindergartenOlive's kindergarten students ended 2015 by learning about patterns and texture. To demonstrate their understanding, they practiced their own patterns on a worksheet, then created a patterned mitten with oil pastels and a soft textured fluff on the bottom. Next, we were inspired by artist Claude Monet. Students learned about the life and work of this French Impressionist artist and created a lily flower on a watercolor background. Currently we are working on an adorable (if I may say so) elephant collage. Students enjoyed making texture for the elephant's body by crinkling paper! First GradeConnecting to their classroom curriculum, Olive's 1st graders made two projects related to Japan. The first was a glazed teacup, which we gathered inspiration from by watching a video of a Japanese Tea Ceremony. The second project was inspired by Kimonos, traditional Japanese outfits worn on special occasions. Students decorated their kimono with a drawing of artist Hokusai's Red Fuji. Hokusai was a printmaker who used woodblock prints to make art. Students painted the kimono with watercolor paint and mounted it on black paper. Second GradeOlive's second grade students just finished a presidential portrait project, in which they had to create a portrait of the president they are researching in their classrooms. Prior to that they made a clay penguin, which was brought home last month. Third GradeThird grade students wove baskets out of paper after learning about basket weaving as an artform. These projects were brought home in the beginning of 2016. They also worked on a joint project with Mrs. Brown from the LMC. The project was to create a morphed animal from two different biomes. Students focused on adding visual texture to their animal. They also tried to make the environment in which their animal lives have a clear foreground, middle ground, and background. Below are some pictures from Clay Night! Fourth GradeBelow, you'll see examples of the postcard project 4th grade students completed (read my previous blog post for more information). Upon finishing the postcard project, students began their next endeavor, which was to create two meals: one healthy, made up of foods recommended by the USDA's "My Plate," and the other filled with "sometimes foods," which are foods that shouldn't be consumed regularly. We also looked at examples of how artists have created connected food in art throughout art history. Fifth Grade5th grade students created a one-point perspective city (or town) drawing, first in pencil, then in permanent marker. They worked really hard! Following this project we turned our attention to shades and tints to make a tree silhouetted against a moonlit sky. Have a great spring break parents and young artists. Put those Legos to good use!
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AuthorI'm Mr. DeMarco, Art Teacher here at Olive-Mary Stitt. Please use this blog to read about our adventures! Archives
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