Showing posts with label 2016-17. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2016-17. Show all posts
3rd Grade Art projects 2016-17
Program Overview 2016-17
Tell me a story, building a narrative in visual art
What did we
do in Art this year? Lots of skill building, discussion, observation, and messy
wonderful hands on creating!
Zentangle
Patchwork Landscapes-Sharpie on Neon
Paper, build a whimsical landscape with 3-5 hills,1-3 trees, create interest
with pattern and design. Use gel pens to add detail and drama. Your imaginary
landscape what is your story, who lives here?
Name Game- Pop Art introduction, Sharpie and color pencil
Event Project- Bon-Bon Banquet. Collage group project
Ice Cream art value scale
painting project Color blending
creating a value scale, understanding art vocabulary, following a series of
directions. Tempera paint and mode podge. Pop art connections
Sweet Tooth (2 part project) Charlie and the chocolate factory
inspired, design your own candy, packaging, font, design. Candy used as a
boarder for Gumball Pop Art. Each
student created their own Gumball for the class Gumball Machine.
Artistic inspirations: Vincent Van Gogh, Romare
Bearden, Matisse, 18th and 19th century still life
paintings, JW Turner, Leonardo Di Vinci/Mona Lisa, Cartoon/Animation, Georgia
O’Keeffe, famous building around the world/architecture. Matisse cut paper
works. Pop Art, Warhol, Wayne Thiebaud
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
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 bookAdd 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.
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| Watercolor outlines |
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| students created painted paper with watercolor |
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| Background completed by students with acrylic paint and sponges |
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| student cut and glued leaves and grass |
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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.
tree in landscape
Inspired by Romare Bearden and American Regionalism painting
What is your story, what is your season/weather?
What is your story, what is your season/weather?
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...
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!
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
Part I: trace pattern and create designs/patterns
Kinder fun with lines
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!
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!
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