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!