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Welcome to the 2021-22 School year

Welcome, hope you had a nice safe break, are you ready for some art fun. Here are some warm up pages to get you started!

Fun pages for all ages

Have a lovely summer,

Stay safe and Make art !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouDbgOkwjE&t=1142s

On this Porch Story adventure we share 2 books that share the life story of artist and graphic designer Mary Blair.

Small World Mary Blair inspired coloring page

End of the year clay projects

Everyone created a grade specific clay project.

News Letter to Families

This News Letter went home to families to update them on the Art Room News.

The Phoebe Hearst Art Gazette

January 2021

Dear Phoebe Hearst Families, Faculty and Friends,

Wow! What a great start to our New Year. I have been able to Zoom visit with every class this Month. This should be your student’s second or third time to enjoy an art workshop. And what better time to start an Art Newsletter than with a new year. This “masterpiece” will appear monthly (or there abouts) and bring you art updates, upcoming events, and resources.

What Happen this Month in the Zoom Rooms:

Kindergarteners enjoyed experiencing the book Where the Wild Things Are, complete with howling and a Wild Rumpus too. They drew shape mini monsters that showed expression while adding fun details. What are details and how do they make a picture more interesting?

1^st grade found lots of humor in the book the Art Teacher is Weird (based on a true story) then followed a series of directions to create 4 or more Weird creatures based on 2 given shapes and 2 additional/choice forms. How do we use our face to show how we are feeling?

2^nd grade was introduced to the celebration of Lunar New Years and following a series of direct drawing steps created a serpent dragon from the inside out. Fun creativity while building on drawing skills and following a series of complex directions. Where does your dragon live, what is its habitat?

3^rd grade’s art focus for this year will center around animals, Native/Aboriginal peoples and their connections (folktales, artwork and habitats) The owl is our first subject of interest. For this project students relied on their knowledge of cursive writing to shape and design their own whimsical creation, while learning fun facts too! Spotlight artist: Kenojuak Ashevak

4^th grade looked at images of several paintings by American Master Georgia O’Keeffe, comparing and contrasting her approach to painting trees. Then, following a series of direct drawing images they built their own “Tree in a Landscape” composition. They learned vocabulary such as: Foreground, Middle ground, and Background, while learning the basics of creating an illusion of space on distance on a flat piece of paper. Spotlight artist: Georgia O’Keeffe.

5^th grade artists began learning the steps to create a realistic rendering of a human face. What are the proportions and where do the parts go? Looking at famous works such as Portrait of Henry the VIII, Mona Lisa and Girl with a Pearl Earring, they used art vocabulary to build an understanding of the role of portraiture in world history. Using class resources and following a series of direct drawing steps they began to practice with facial placement developing more confidence. Spotlight Artist: Vermeer and
Leonardo da Vinci

6^th graders explored one point perspective using the work of M.C. Escher as a jumping off point. They looked at several of his prints that played with vanishing points and twisted perspective. Together we began to draw 3-D projecting shapes from a central vanishing point. Students were given numerous resources that allow for further exploration including creating 3-D letters and designing your own wacky Zoom Room.

Next month a few of our Spotlight Artists will be: Vincent Van Gogh, Mary Blair and Jean-Michel Basquiat…plus surprises! Upcoming projects; the human skeleton in art, feelings connected to colors, hibernation and migration and some music appreciation too! We hope to work with Model Magic clay in March.

Are you looking for art resources or inspiration for your young one? Check out the Phoebe Hearst Art Blog. This online site is family friendly and has lots and lots of printable pages, video links, fun facts, and book connections. Here is the link: https://phoebehearstart.blogspot.com

Have a question or suggestion for Ms. Jane or want to share a piece of student artwork that I can post, bi-weekly, on our blog send emails to: MJane-Hastings@scusd.edu (Jpeg images work the best)

Lastly this week is Kindness Week so here is a coloring image for you to relax and enjoy.

Stay Safe Stay Arty,

Luv and Kindness

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

The Hill We Climb

By Amanda Gorman

When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

The loss we carry. A sea we must wade.

We braved the belly of the beast.

We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.

And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.

Somehow we do it.

Somehow we weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.

We, the successors of a country and a time where a skinny Black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president, only to find herself reciting for one.

And, yes, we are far from polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t mean we are striving to form a union that is perfect.

We are striving to forge our union with purpose.

To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.

And so we lift our gaze, not to what stands between us, but what stands before us.

We close the divide because we know to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside.

We lay down our arms so we can reach out our arms to one another.

We seek harm to none and harmony for all.

Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true.

That even as we grieved, we grew.

That even as we hurt, we hoped.

That even as we tired, we tried.

That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious.

Not because we will never again know defeat, but because we will never again sow division.

Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid.

If we’re to live up to our own time, then victory won’t lie in the blade, but in all the bridges we’ve made.

That is the promise to glade, the hill we climb, if only we dare.

It’s because being American is more than a pride we inherit.

It’s the past we step into and how we repair it.

We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation, rather than share it.

Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.

And this effort very nearly succeeded.

But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.

In this truth, in this faith we trust, for while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.

This is the era of just redemption.

We feared at its inception.

We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour.

But within it we found the power to author a new chapter, to offer hope and laughter to ourselves.

So, while once we asked, how could we possibly prevail over catastrophe, now we assert, how could catastrophe possibly prevail over us?

We will not march back to what was, but move to what shall be: a country that is bruised but whole, benevolent but bold, fierce and free.

We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation, become the future.

Our blunders become their burdens.

But one thing is certain.

If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy and change our children’s birthright.

So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left.

Every breath from my bronze-pounded chest, we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.

We will rise from the golden hills of the West.

We will rise from the windswept Northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution.

We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the Midwestern states.

We will rise from the sun-baked South.

We will rebuild, reconcile, and recover.

And every known nook of our nation and every corner called our country, our people diverse and beautiful, will emerge battered and beautiful.

When day comes, we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid.

The new dawn balloons as we free it.

For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it.

If only we’re brave enough to be it.

Creating a Sidewalk Chalk Portrait

Over the past few months I have been using my sidewalk and walkway as an artistic "canvas" here are some step by step images of the creation of the portrait of artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat.