7th Grade: Mondrian Map Paintings

These paintings are Mondrian inspired, map, analogous color, abstract paintings. Wow that's a mouth full! 7th grade and I discussed a lot of terms for this project. First we looked at the art of Piet Mondrian and discussed where he found his inspiration for his abstract paintings.



After this we took a look at some art that was inspired by maps and discussed how it looks similar to the work of Mondrian. Next we took a look at analogous colors on the color wheel, meaning three colors next to each other on the color wheel.


Students chose a map of anything and anywhere they would like. Some chose cities, some chose maps from video games, some chose amusement park maps. We had a nice variety of maps, shapes and lines. Students were to use their analogous colors to first paint their map. After painting the map with the analogous colors, they were able to steer away from the map to add additions that would map their painting more successful.

6th Grade: Monochromatic Mandalas

A mandala is a radial design, representing life. It is often used for meditation purposes found in the Hindu or Buddhist religion. Students designed their own Mandala, using rulers and compasses to start the radial design. Monochromatic means one color. Students were also challenged to paint to mandalas using one color, mixing their own tints and shades. Students learned a tint of a color means to add white and a shade of a color means to add black.

Kindergarten: Baby Jesus in the Manger

5th Grade: One Point Perspective

One point perspective is a way of creating depth in an art work . It makes it appear like objects or buildings are becoming further away. 5th Grade learned about the horizon line and a vanishing point. Students were aloud to create an indoor or outdoor scene for winter or the holiday season. Some students decorated living rooms with Christmas trees and stockings while other did a snowy street with Christmas lights hung from the buildings.

Kindergarten: Cave Drawings

This post i a bit overdue because it was our second lesson of the school year. What better way for my young kindergartners to start their art journey than to look at the oldest art found on record, cave paintings. This is where it all began, the idea of putting images and ideas down on a surface. Kindergarten and I looked at the Lascaux Cave. We discussed the images of animals, hand prints, and hunters. We discussed the materials that the cave men and women would have used.

Then we created our own cave around the water fountain with their own cave drawings. They included their hand print as well as any type of animals that would have been found in cave paintings. My kindergarten friends used chalk pastels to complete their drawings.

Christmas Crafts!

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I apologize for not getting this post up sooner, but I was too busy enjoying the christmas break, like I hope you all did! Here are some crafts done before we went on break.

Second grade created these brown paper bag gingerbread houses. The bags were still able to be opened in the back, and could double as a gift bag! Although sparkles can be messy I still love the beauty they add.

Both second grade and kindergarten used our last day before break to create these "ugly" Christmas sweaters. Some are crazy while others kept theirs a more cute than ugly.