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 

Porch Stories With Mrs. Kane & Ms. Jane - Vincent van Gogh

Van Gogh can't sleep, this is the new book featured on Porch Stories. 

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 

Spotlight artists for January 2021

This month our virtual art program will really start to roll out. 

Our spotlight artists are: 

Georgia O'Keeffe

 Jean-Michel Basquiat

 Vincent Van Gogh

 Mary Blair  

What will the Zoom virtual class sessions focus on?

Kinder: Where the Wild Things Are-min monsters.

1^st: The Art teacher is Weird-shapes lines monsters.

2^nd :Chinese New Year/Draw a Dragon

3^rd: Cursive writing and drawing an owl.

4^th: Drawing a tree in a landscape.

5^th: Faces and Feelings.

6^th: beginning perspective/city drawing.

I like to combine books, art history as well as materials and hands on instruction. 

That's a lot to pack into a 30 minutes session!

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.