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 

Porch Stories with Ms. Jane and Mrs. Kane #4

Wrapping up this school year and the end of the first season of Porch Stories #4

Spotlight artist: Keith Haring 

Keith Haring and friend/fellow artist Jean-Michel Basquiat

KH Earth Day art work 

Keith Haring at work 

painting on the grand canvas 

Fifth Grade Observe/Imagine 2018-19

1/2/3 +Starry Night inspired Cityscape- Building a Dramatic sky inspired by Turner and Van Gogh, using crayon, watercolor and sea salt. City silhouette images were added with cut paper collage and embellished with white and metallic gel pen. Inspired by images of famous Architectural sites around the world.

4 Imaginary galaxy snapshots: chalk pastels, tracing circles to create planet like shapes and using shading to build a 3-D effect.

5 Human Face: The art of portraiture, Line and design work sheets and introduction to basic face drawing skills 

6-9 -3+Royal Dogs- What is a royal portrait? Brief overview of court portrait painting. Humorous approach to portraiture, using printed support materials of both cartoon and realistic dogs, students developed their own imagery using pencil, sharpie, gel pen, color pencil, crayon and water color. Design and decorate a frame.

10+Event project- I dream the Universe- Acrylic paint, glitter paper, embellishments and clay are all part of this mixed media art piece. Set against a collage of green leaves the lone figure is deep in thought, star dust and star light together in one moment and it is truly magical! Composition and parts built/constructed by students.

collage and painting details

11/12+3-D this is me! Cartoon inspired self-portrait using modeling clay, Pop art, animation. Exploring new materials, humor, emotion, storytelling.  Stop motion films and the classic Mr. Bill.

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