6th Grade: Glue Line Pumpkins

One simple way of showing space in an up close drawing is to over lap. In these fall themed drawings, students had to choose three fall items, with at least one being a pumpkin and overlap the items to show space. They also learned how to create shading using a light source and casting shadows on the ground. These are not any ordinary drawings because students used glue to draw the black outlines.

Kindergarten: Cave Drawings

What better way to start learning art history, than to start from the very beginning. Kindergarten did just that by studying the cave drawings of Lascaux Cave in France. we learned about what cave men used to create these paintings, and what types things they painted. It was mostly animals and hunters, including bulls, bison, deer, and horses.

Kindergarten used chalk pastels in the similar colors that cave men would have had. Each student crumpled brown paper to make their section of the cave wall. They then completed a large drawing of their animal and used their hand print to sign it, just like the Lascaux Cave.

First Grade: Fall Reflections

First grade created these beautiful fall reflections using acrylic paint and a form of printing called a "Mono print". This means that it can only be printed once, which is much different than other forms of prints where we can make multiple copies. We compared this to using a stamp that we can use many times.

Students used paint on one half of the paper and then folded in to create the reflection.

Kindergarten: Color Wheel snails

Understanding the color wheel is one of the fundamentals for these students in starting their artist journey. This is where they begin to understand how to colors relate to each other and how mixing them together will turn it out in future projects. We learned two basic groups of colors, the primary colors and the secondary colors.
To make our color wheels, we collected pieces of old magazines for each of our six colors. We glued these scraps to a paper plate in the correct rainbow order (some are going counter clockwise, but rainbow order non the less). When we completed our color wheel we painted a black rim around the plate. Students used oil pastels to draw their snail designs around the shell. We added so glitter to our snail shells to add a little more excitement.

3rd Grade: Picasso Monsters

Out artist inspiration for this project, was Pablo Picasso. Picasso created portraits of women, showing the face as if we were seeing it from the front as well as the side. We discussed why these portraits were strange and why when he was alive people did not accept them as much as after he had passed away.

In honor of Halloween being right around the corner, we made our portraits of either a witch, Frankenstein, or a vampire. The portraits were made to look as if half the face was looking at you and half was of the profile view. Students mostly used cut construction paper to create these creepy portraits.

School Wide Puzzle Pieces

Welcome Back St. Elizabeth Spartans!!

 

I am so excited for the 2018-2019 school year! I have so many goals for myself this year. Some include, allowing time for those students who need a little extra, keeping projects more open ended to leave room for personal expression, spend more time diving deeper into the artists we learn about, and so many more. I think it is so great to start out the school year with some new goals. Sure we may not be able to stick to all of them but we sure can try.

We started the year off with a collaborative project. I like starting the year with collaboration because I feel it takes a little pressure off of the individual. I also like to leave the first thing we do very open ended so that students can express themselves, show me their talents in art, and just get warmed up for the year. This years collaborative project was puzzle pieces. Students were encouraged (but not forced) to find someone in the classroom that had something in common with them so they could connect their puzzle pieces in some way. It was a great way to continue to learn more about my students but for students to also get a chance to learn about their peers and how they can work together.