Second Grade 2016-17

Tell me a story, building a narrative in visual art

Lots of skill building, discussion, observation, and messy wonderful hands on creating!

Mr. Bones Part I – compare/ contrast, imaginary skeletons with observed drawings, graphite pencil and white color pencil or chalk on black construction paper. 

Cubist Fairytale Villains- Art History connection, color values, hue plus black or white, construction paper collage 

Little Red Riding Hood-Russian Matryoshka nesting/concentric circles, dolls are created using printed resources working with design, storytelling, details and composition. Sharpie/Watercolor and Watercolor pencils. 

Event Project-4 Fairytale Villains-Wicked Queen (red) , Evil Wizard (blue), Troll (green) , Witch (purple)  Picasso portrait style 

Chinese New Year Dragon- one day project using lines and geometric shapes to create a unique dragon inspired by Chinese culture. Crayon, neon crayons and color pencil. 

Dinosaur Yearbook- building on class themes, students create their own dinosaur teacher/student for a group yearbook project. Printed resources, pencil, color pencil, sharpie and crayon 

Mr. Bones Part II - observed drawings, graphite pencil and white color pencil or chalk on black construction paper. 

First Grade 2016 -17

Tell me a story, building a narrative in visual art

Rainbow Spider-crayon resist, watercolor, Sharpie and collage. Learning about spiders, body parts and habits.




Little Red Hen- Inspired by the children’s story and the folk art of Central America, 2-part project, cutting skills, drawing assembling and adding details to create a 3-D paper sculpture.




Hand-made- tracing the human hand, looking at Aboriginal Art work, adding patterns and designs, using sharpies, gel pens and color pencils on black paper. Where are we in the world?

Today I feel- Face emotions, colors showing and expressing feelings, learning to compose a face/placement of parts.



Event project-Today I Feel 



Playful Giraffe- Background was create by exploring with tempera paints, giraffe body print was made by printing with bubble wrap, and a pattern was used for the head and body only. What does a giraffe look like? Where do they live?

Little Red Hen Part 2 - Inspired by the children’s story and the folk art of Central America, 2 part project, cutting skills, drawing assembling and adding details to create a 3-D paper sculpture.




Cherry Blossom project on session exploration inspired by Japanese ink painting, we also made bookmarks for Mother's Day gifts

Kindergarten 2016-17

Tell me a story, building a narrative in visual art


Start of School Self Portrait-Introduction to portraits: What do I look like?  What are the parts of the human face? What is your story? Pasta permission slips


Pasta Art Fun – learning about lines and eating some noodle art.

 Color blending pumpkins-Shapes and color blending (yellow and red to make orange). How do pumpkins grow? The Square pumpkin book
Add leaf with name later























Lines straight lines curvy- continue our study of lines looking at famous works of art for inspiration. Matted work, followed a series of directions, used a ruler.


Fall Leaves-Seasonal changes, warm colors-collage with tissue, construction paper and shiny paper-white glue. Observations about nature, seasons and color theory. Add yarn later class tree?


Event Project: Wild Thing 2 sided mask/facecollage, painted paper, stamping, torn paper, working as a team.

Watercolor outlines 

students created painted paper with watercolor 

Background completed by students with acrylic paint and sponges 

student cut and glued leaves and grass

details 

details 

Red Rectangular Robots- 2 Part project, following a series of directions, adding details, construction paper, crayons and embellishments- What is your Robots Job or Special Skill?  Primary colors





 This is Me! Artists self-portrait 2, end of the year.

art folder hand outs

hand outs for skill building and to support class projects and objectives

doodle grid

Doodle Grid: learning to sketch and create designs, shading and patterns

Little Red

Classic Fairy Tale found in numerous cultures

Cut paper

Day of the dead inspired project, cut paper.

Who is your "person"?

tree in landscape

Inspired by Romare Bearden and American Regionalism painting

What is your story, what is your season/weather?

Day of Dead drawing on foil

The very busy spider

Inspired by Eric Carle

Imaginary Landscapes

Where does your imaginary story take place, create your own made up landscape.

guidelines:
must have 3-5 hills
 1-3 trees
some kind of weather
patterns and designs
no words, no people or structures...

Kinder Pumpkin color blending

Fall is pumpkin season and a perfect connection to color blending and a wonderful way to introduce Warm and Cool colors.

Picasso inspired

2nd grade project Picasso Inspired Fairy Tale Villains.
Fun art history connection with lots of skill building and imagination!

Little Red Hen

The Little Red Hen is a children's classic. This art project connects to the this story and is an on going project that will completed at the end of the school year.

Part I: trace pattern and create designs/patterns

Kinder fun with lines

We always start our kinder year with and introduction to the elements of art and LINE is our number one focus. The great spaghetti project is always a memorable hit with all the kids, who doesn't like to eat their art too!

Welcome to our New Year 2016-17

Hello,
welcome to our New Year, our theme for the Art Room this year is "Tell Me a Story".

I hope to connect all of the projects to literature, story telling and our characters.
Sounds like a fun challenge follow along and see how we do!

End of the Year Art Show 2015-16

Another great year, another great show!

1st grade Little Red Hens 

2nd grade projects

New "Ancient" artifacts

Royal Dogs

Pop Gothic

Using a coloring page version of the classic Grant Wood painting American Gothic students developed their own collage pop inspired collage composition.