Third Grade Collectors 2018-19

1/2/3-3  Landscapes Perspective – Students were introduced the Landscape drawing using a series of table top handouts and an brief art history overview. They could select one of 3 given landscape prompts to create their own composition. Project used pencil, watercolors, watercolor pencils and markers. Your imaginary landscape what is your story, who lives here?

4/5/6-3+ Broken Heart color values and line project-color value and blending, creating an interesting composition with a limited color palette. Marker used to add bold lines. Inspired by Pop Art and Picasso  

7-1+Event Project- Home is Where the Heart Is!: Love=Home, Home=Love, in the spirit of UP, enjoy this charming assemblage of hand created paper hearts, dozens of specialized

rainbow flowers, painted paper grass and hand placed cloud puffs set against an acrylic painted landscaped. There really is no place like this Home!

8 Modigliani self-portraits- how to draw a face oil pastels and direct drawing using a grid format, color blending setting a mood or tone. Expressive and Emotional project with lots of creative expression.

9-12 Colorful Still Life- Matisse inspired cut paper collage. Draw a table/horizon line, background and foreground, add cut paper symmetrical vase. Creating a complex composition and following a series of directions, building layers and details.

Kinder Explores 2018-19

Welcome young artist! I'm so glad to have you join us...

1 Start of School Self Portrait-Introduction to portraits: What do I look like?  What are the parts of the human face? What is my story? Frame, background, signature

2 Color Theory Fall leaves (yellow and red to make orange). Seasons, colors, plant life. Warm colors, Cool colors…leaves in gutters.

3/4 Color Line Monsters- lines straight lines curvy- continue our study of lines looking at famous works of art for inspiration. Drawing, cutting, watercolor and collage. Expressive faces and Storytelling. 

5-6 Winter Polar Bears- shape and blending, weather and collage. Building a composition through layers. Created Penguin background at the same time as the Bear body with white tempera paint.

laying out the colors 

7-1.5 Event Project:  Rainbow Unicorn. Inspired by the sugar bright colors of Pop 90’s artist Lisa Frank the Kinder art piece has so much to LOVE. Collaged hand painted papers embellished with glitter and acrylic paint set against a mat black background. This would be the perfect addition to any room.
the Kinder students created the color paper (acrylic paint) and cut out shapes to create a group collage. Fingerprint details on horn. Lots of imaginative fun and exploration. 

8-Penguins on Parade - 3 different body shapes to select . Painted background, color and collage. Discussion about penguin habitats

9/10 Red Rectangular Robots- 2 Part project, following a series of directions, adding details, construction paper, crayons and embellishments- What is your Robots Job or Special Skill?  Primary colors added details with drawing. 

11 Model Magic clay snails- color blending and building a coil shape with clay, Snails lives on  folded leaf with name/room number labels

12+-1 My own Unicorn- Using precut head shapes and scraps from the Event project and their own watercolor test sheet, students cut, colored and designed their own unicorn.

Extra-End of the year student self portrait

Kinder Pumpkin color blending

Fall is pumpkin season and a perfect connection to color blending and a wonderful way to introduce Warm and Cool colors.

Value Scale Buildings

Color blending and color theory, blending to create a value scale. Understand art vocabulary, following a series of directions.

Using the painted value scale paper, artists created a building form that they embellished with cut paper and color pencils. Handouts where available with images of architecture from around the world.

Spider Spider

2 part lesson drawing a web crayon resist, add a collage spider.
Web is drawn first using crayon, after several pencil practices. Line direction and direct drawing.
Watercolor wash added over crayon and salt added for texture.

part II tracing circular shapes to create the 2 parts of the spiders body legs added and spider attached to the web.

Kinder color blending

Using sponges and tempera paint colors-red and yellow, students created orange