Pop Art Mona Lisa and More with 4th grade

 4th grade artists explored the world of Pop Art, they made their own soup can label, created a colorful PoP Mona Lisa using collage skills and constructed a Op art cube inspired by artist Bridget Riley

Check the board so you know what to do next!

For the Auction Event class project every 4th grade student made a colorful heart that was collaged on top of a student painted acrylic canvas 

Human skeleton

 4th, 5th and 6th grade focused on the Human skeleton, body proportions, skulls and new approaches to portraiture. Here are some of their art influences for the session. 

The human skeleton consists of 206 bones. We are actually born with more bones (about 300), but many fuse together as a child grows up. These bones support your body and allow you to move. Bones contain a lot of calcium (an element found in milk, broccoli, and other foods). Bones manufacture blood cells and store important minerals. 

The longest bone in our bodies is the femur (thigh bone). The smallest bone is the stirrup bone inside the ear. Each hand has 26 bones in it. Your nose and ears are not made of bone; they are made of cartilage, a flexible substance that is not as hard as bone. 

Joints: Bones are connected to other bones at joints. There are many different types of joints, including: fixed joints (such as in the skull, which consists of many bones), hinged joints (such as in the fingers and toes), and ball-and-socket joints (such as the shoulders and hips). 

Published for educational purposes only: 

Jean-Michel Basquiat at work 

Drawing a Tree in a Landscape

 This project is inspired by the Spotlight Artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Paper or Canvas is vertical or portrait for this exercise. 

Lake George 

Details of assorted tree elements by Georgia O'Keeffe 

All photos for educational purposes only 

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

4th grade Pop Art explosion 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+ Doodle Grid-Measure and lay out a grid on a square of sketch paper, over the year add different patterns and designs to each square

 2/3/4/5-4 Day of the Dead Foil Skulls –Day of the Dead Inspired Sugar Skull on foil. Sharpies, and pencil. Discussed cultural connections and looked at images and design support material 

6-1 Fall at the lake- Seasonal connected watercolor project, inspired by the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, water pencils, pencil and watercolor paints

7-1+ Event Project-Coffee drinking Mona Lisa/Mona and Joe cut out recycled Starbucks gift cards, organized by color to create the collage. 

8/9/10-3+ Mona goes Pop- Combining inspiration from 2 major Artists, Mona Lisa/di Vinci and Pop Art Andy Warhol, students traced the iconic image of Mona Lisa on clear overhead sheets using Sharpie marker and build a colorful under collage, resulting in images like the graphic work of Warhol. 

11/12-2+ Pop Art Soup- Students design their own soup label inspired by the work of Andy Warhol. Marker and color pencil, building a design. 

Artistic inspirations: Vincent Van Gogh, Classic portraiture of the 17th-20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe, Romare Bearden, Leonardo Di Vinci/Mona Lisa, Mexican Folk Art, Grant Wood, Andy Warhol, Day of the Dead imagery, Pop Art 

4th Grade 2016-17

doodle grid

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

Day of Dead drawing on foil

Pop Gothic

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

Parts of the Human Face

Lake George Inspired Watercolor

Inspired by the artist Georgia O'Keeffe's painting of lake George students worked bold and expressive using watercolors and watercolor pencils

Lake George, Autumn, 1927 by Georgia O'Keeffe

Doodle Grid

Measure and layout a grid pattern-good rule skill practice. in each square draw/create a unique doodle design or pattern. This is a warm up go to project for students throughout the year.