Red Ribbon Week - 2012

First Grade

Art Installation

Red Ribbon Week - 2012

This large peace sign was created by making several small red ribbons.  First graders worked very hard to create this large installation, made up of hundreds of handmade ribbons.

Thank you first grade!

Second Grade - Hundertwasser

Hundertwasser City Scape

This unit was titled:  The world we live in.

Second grade studied the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.  We looked at several prints by Hundertwasser and talked about his love for architecture.  In many of Hundertwasser’s cityscapes he uses an “onion dome” rooftop.  This “onion dome” is signature to his work.  Many students used “onion domes” in their work.  You can find “onion dome” rooftops in Russian architecture. 

Second grade used chalk to create a cityscape with depth.  Next, they used colorful oil pastel to make their city’s come to life. 

Good job Second Grade!

Fourth Grade - Mondrian Trees

Mondrian: Trees

This unit was titled:  The world we live in.

Fourth grade studied the artist Piet Mondrian.  We looked at Mondrian’s artwork, specifically his work with trees.

Mondrian trees start out very lifelike and progress into more abstracted shapes.

Students used line, to creatively form a tree. New abstract shapes were created from this stylized technique. They used black paint and colored oil pastels.

Great job Fourth Grade!

Third Grade - Color Theory

Color Theory Art Journals

Third grade studied the color wheel.  We reviewed primary, secondary, warm, and cool colors.  We then looked at complimentary colors or colors that go well together.

We used a printmaking process to create abstract designs using a complimentary color scheme.
These are journals were bound with colorful yarn.  The journals will be used on their class trip in January, to Historic Brattonsville.

Kindergarten - class quilt

Kindergarten is working on their collaboration skills, to create a cohesive class quilt.

Each square visually represents a special time each child shared with their family.  Kindergarten used scrap pieces of paper to create anything from mountains to animals.  Instead of drawing the images, we talked about ways we could represent our memories, with different cut shapes, much like quilters.

Each quilt is hanging outside the Kindergarten classroom of your child.  Next time you are in the building, ask your student to tell you about his or her square.

First Grade - Story Quilt

Faith Ringgold Inspired Story Quilts

First Grade students read the book Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold.  We discussed the idea of being able to fly over anything in the world that we want; much like the character in Tar Beach.

We then looked at other story quilts by artist and teacher, Faith Ringgold.  Students learned how the artist uses paint and fabric to create visual imagery.

Students used creativity to draw a place they would most want to fly over.  They used color pencil to fill in their picture.  They used scrap paper to create a quilt effect around their picture.

Beautiful Work!

Kindergarten Color Theory

What do you get when you cross a Kindergarten student with a:

straw

red paint

yellow paint

blue paint

A COLOR THEORY OOH AHH MOMENT!

Kindergarten used primary colors to create secondary colors.  They used a straw to blow (mix) the colors together to create secondary colors.

These beautiful creations are the covers of their art journals.

While studying color theory we watched a very fun video on You Tube about primary colors, check out this link:

OK GO Primary Colors

First Grade Art Journal

Color Theory - Art Journal

First grade studied the color wheel and focused on Primary and Secondary colors.

We used watercolors to create a primary to secondary color scheme for the background of our art journals.

We watched this awesome youtube video about color theory: 

OK GO Primary Colors

We also read the book:

A color of his own

by: Leo Leoni

Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Tigers have black and orange stripes. It seems that every animal has its own distinctive color — except the chameleon. And that makes the little chameleon hero of this picture book very sad. Every time he moves, he changes color! So, wanting nothing more than a color to call his own, he decides to stay in one place forever: on the greenest leaf he can find. At last the chameleon is happy . . . until autumn comes, and the leaf changes from green to yellow to red. Finally, another chameleon arrives, and suggests they travel together. The two set off for a new life of multicolored adventure — as friends.

Students drew the little chameleon on the cover of their art journals to help show the shift from a primary to a secondary color.

Fun!



Second Grade - Self Portrait

Collage Self Portrait

Our first project of the school year was to create our self portrait in the art style of collage.

We talked about the media of collage and looked at several artists that create collage artworks.

This project proved to be 'ultra' time consuming.  It took about four weeks and most students were not able to finish.  We may revisit this project later in the year, to finish what we started.

Even though we didn't finish, many of them are looking fantastic!



Second Grade - DuBuffet Journals

Jean DuBuffet Art Journals

Students studied the artwork of French artist, Jean DuBuffet.  They loved saying his name, ask them to pronounce it for you. 

We also studied the color wheel and focused on our primary colors and what primary colors can do.

Students designed an original art journal in the style of Jean DuBuffet, using a primary color scheme.

During our instruction I played this youtube video about color theory:  click link below

OK GO - Primary Colors

They loved this video and still sing it today!

Kindergarten-Don't Let the Pigeon Teach Art!

Don’t let the Pigeon teach Art!

Kindergarten read the award winning book:

Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!

By: Mo Willems

There is also a very fun and educational pigeon app you can download from the app store.

We drew our Pigeons using sharpie marker and then we colored are pigeon with crayon.

We used primary colors to color our pigeons.

Some students gave their pigeons unique characteristics.

Kindergarten Architects

Kindergarten

Architects

Kindergarten looked at several types of home designs… from tree houses to igloos. 

We also looked at the website of a local, working architect in Rock Hill, and the homes he designs.

We talked about geometric shapes and blue prints.

We designed blue prints, just like real architects, using a printmaking process.

3rd Grade - Klimt Trees

Klimt: Tree of Life

This unit was titled:  The world we live in.

Third grade studied the artist Gustav Klimt.  We looked at Klimt’s artwork and pointed out things like:  color, pattern, material’s used and overall design. 

We decided to make the trees in our world, look like Klimt’s: Tree of Life.

Students used colored pencil to create pattern in their trees.  They used watercolor (shine) to create a jewel like quality to their designs, much like Klimt’s work.

Good job Third Grade!

Abstract

Analogous Colors

Tempera Paint

Fifth Grade studied the color wheel.  They learned how to mix colors to get other colors.  We reviewed primary, secondary, complimentary, warm and cool colors.

Then we added the word, Analogous, to our vocabulary.  Analogous colors are three colors that are right next to each other (or neighbors) on the color wheel.

Students created abstract works using yarn and black paint. 

Next they used an analogous color scheme, using tempera paint as their media.

They had to mix their colors using only primary colors: Red, Yellow & Blue.

We were going to make these into our personal art journals, but we thought they were too beautiful to fold in half.

Bravo Fifth Grade!

Cubism: Landscape

This unit was titled:  The world we live in.

Fifth grade studied the artistic movement called:  Cubism.

Cubism is considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.  Leading artists of the cubist movement were: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, etc…

We looked at several artworks from the cubist movement and discussed Cubist artwork:

objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.

Students also discussed landscape: what is it, what does it look like outside my door, down the street, in the city, across the ocean?

Students drew their idea of an ideal landscape.  Then they used elements from Cubism to break up their landscape, creating a reassembled effect.

Nice work Fifth Grade!

Abstract/Complimentary Color scheme

Fourth Grade studied the color wheel this fall.  They learned why some colors go better together, than others.  These are called complimentary colors.

Students created abstract works using yarn and black paint. 

Next they created a complimentary color scheme, using watercolors media.

We were going to make these into our personal art journals, but we thought they were too beautiful to fold in half.

Bravo Fourth Grade!