2nd grade creating with confidence 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!

1-1+Mr. Bones Part I – compare/ contrast, imaginary skeletons with observed drawings, graphite pencil.

2/3-2+Cubist Fairytale Villains- Art History connection, color values, hue plus black or white, construction paper collage

4/5/6-3+ 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. Marc Chagall was our art history inspiration.

7-1+ Event Project Picasso musicians- colorful Guitars inspired by Picasso and Romare Bearden, color blending and collage


8 Chinese New Year dragon- cross culture, designing with shapes and exploring chalk pastels

9/10-2+ Dinosaur Yearbook- building on class themes, students create their own Dino student for a group yearbook project. Printed resources, pencil, color pencil, sharpie and crayon


My colorful Guitar- artists created their own guitar centered composition using, crayons, color pencil, bleeding tissue paper, markers and collage to build their image and fill it with electric energy!
Inspired by Picasso and 60’sPop Art


Artistic inspirations: Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Di Vinci/Mona Lisa, J W Turner (dramatic sky), Pop art, Chinese tapestries, Russian Folk Art, Andrew Wyeth, Cubism, Cartoon/Animation, Fairy Tales, Romare Bearden, Marc Chagall


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