5th grade moving to mastery 2017-18

Night at the Art museum connecting to art history
What did we do in Art this year? Lots of skill building, discussion, observation, and messy wonderful hands on creating!

Starry Night inspired Cityscape- Building a Dramatic sky inspired by Turner and Van Gogh, using crayon, watercolor and sea salt. City silhouette images were added with cut paper collage and embellished with gel pen. Inspired by images of famous Architectural sites around the world.











Human Face: Line and design work sheets and introduction to basic face drawing skills


Royal Dogs- What is a royal portrait? Brief overview of court portrait painting. Humorous approach to portraiture, using printed support materials of both cartoon and realistic dogs, students developed their own imagery using pencil, sharpie, gel pen, color pencil, crayon and water color. Design and decorate a frame.


Event project- Dog with the pearl collage, collage and clay pieces to create a 3-D frame. Portrait image made from repurposed materials such as yellow pages, packing tape and paper towels.


3-D this is me! Cartoon inspired self-portrait using modeling clay, inspired by cartoons, Pop art, animation. Exploring new materials


Artistic inspirations: Vincent Van Gogh, Romare Bearden, Matisse, JW Turner, Leonardo Di Vinci/Mona Lisa, Georgia O’Keeffe, famous building around the world/architecture, Classic portraiture of the 17th-20th century, 18th-19th century landscape artists, artist William Wegman, Pop art



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