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

 

Welcome to Art my Kinder friends

 Our Kinders artists were introduced to the Mona Lisa, who is such a good art listener. 

Color blending to create our own orange perfect for making a fall leaf 

We had fun with lines and did more color blending. Using scissor properly cutting small and large shapes and holding a paint brush with purpose! Shape Monster in the making!

We made Whimsical shaped penguins each had their own personality 

 Rainbow Robots with colorful Name Game backgrounds

collage, cutting, gluing, coloring, writing their name and watercolor

this project has it all!

Everyone got to know Vincent Van Gogh  his Starry Night and the Sunflower paintings as part of the School Open House fund raiser. The group pieces were created using painting, stamping and collage 

We ended the year making clay snails using a coil technique. 

Hands on Fun!

                                      The book was the perfect way to close out a lovely Kinder year 

Fourth Grade Designers 2018-19

1/2-3 Day of the Dead Foil Skulls –DOD Inspired Sugar Skull on foil. Sharpies, and pencil. Discussed cultural connections and looked at images and design support material, Cultural connections. Introduction to Frida Kahlo's work/life. 

4-5  Fall at the lake- Seasonal connected watercolor project, inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, watercolor pencils, pencil and watercolor paints. Building a composition from abstract to landscape, color blocking and details

6+ Event Project- Tumble for Me- Geometry and quilting come together in this paper collage of shape and color. Based on the traditional tumble block quilting pattern this non-traditional artwork has over 100 hand cut and personalized pieces that work together to give a rhythmic flow to this dynamic composition.

7-10 Pop Portraits - Combining inspiration from a variety 
of  Artists, Mona Lisa, di Vinci, Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring, American Gothic and Pop Artist Andy Warhol, students traced one of these iconic images on clear overhead sheets using Sharpie marker and build a colorful under collage, resulting in images like the graphic work of Warhol.

11/12Pop Art Soup- Students design their own soup label inspired by the work of Andy Warhol. Marker and color pencil, building a design. 3-D project

Extra: creating quilt patterns with line and color