First Grade art adventures 2021-22

I will then said the Little Red Hen

We started the year with this fun project based on the classic children's story

and made art connections to the works of Picasso and Chagall 

The end of the year class group project was a Little Red Hen created with 

acrylic paints, stamping and sponge painting.

The pieces were sold during the Open House silent auction 

Cookie People Around the World 

Inspired by the work of artist Yayoi Kusama student created a polka dot pumpkin, cut paper, collage, drawing and coloring 

Little Red Hen class display 


Our Spider and Web design project wrapped up the year

 

Kinder and First Grade

 Where the Wild Things Are and The Art Teacher is Weird 

Students followed a series of direct drawing instructions to create their own mini shape monsters. 

The book Glad Monster Sad Monster- A book about Feelings gave us a lot of inspiration too! 

First Grade Investigate 2018-19

What did we do in Art this year? 

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

1/2-3 Rainbow Spider-crayon resist, watercolor, Sharpie and collage. Learning about spiders, body parts and habits. Building a composition. 

Eric Carle inspired 

 4/5  Buggy Bugs- 2 projects one subject: drawing focused using reference materials students created their own imaginary insect (black paper and metallic pencils) the other a symmetrical acrylic body was created by folding and pressing paint. Markers used to add details

6/7 Little Red Hen- trace a pattern, cut and design, create a nest, adding an egg (chick is optional) following a series of directions. 3-D project 

8- Event project- 
Cats with
Flowers, humorous, intelligent, playful and mischiefs describes first graders and cats! These little felines are accessories with dozens of hand drawn and cut out flowers against beautiful tissue paper collaged backgrounds. The horizontal format makes it perfect for hanging over a bed or sofa! drawing/coloring, cutting and tissue paper collage background.

9/10/11Tiger Tiger

 Direct drawing of tiger face, small sketchbook, create jungle and sky add cut paper, flowers and insects  

12- Cherry Blossom project painting inspired by Japanese pen and ink compositions. Color blending to create blossoms. Using a double loaded brush, skill building and techniques. 

       

1st grade art works 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!

1/2-3 Rainbow Spider-crayon resist, watercolor, Sharpie and collage. Learning about spiders, body parts and habits.


3 (on going)  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?


4/5 - Direct drawing line direction and colors connected to Sonia Delaunay – line direction and color building to create an interesting composition.

6/7 Little Red Hen- trace a pattern, cut and design, create a nest, following a series of directions.

8-1.5 Event project- Rousseau jungle image-drawing and tissue paper collage


9/10/11Tiger Tiger -  Direct drawing of tiger face create jungle with cut paper add flowers and insects 


12-1 Cherry Blossom project painting inspired by Japanese pen and ink compositions. Color blending to create blossoms



Artistic inspirations: Vincent Van Gogh, Eric Carle, Romare Bearden, Aboriginal art, Leonardo Di Vinci/Mona Lisa, Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, Henri Rousseau, Japanese pen and ink, Mexican Folk Art, , J W Turner (dramatic sky) 

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

The very busy spider

Inspired by Eric Carle

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

Playful Giraffe

Symmetrical Bugs

Magic Carpet

Cut paper project inspired by woven carpets and textiles of the Middle East. Build patterns and use a variety of scissor blade designs. Fun way to evaluate skill cutting abilities and build art vocabulary.

Spider Spider

2 part lesson drawing a web crayon resist, add a collage spider.
Web is drawn first using crayon, after several pencil practices. Line direction and direct drawing.
Watercolor wash added over crayon and salt added for texture.

part II tracing circular shapes to create the 2 parts of the spiders body legs added and spider attached to the web.