Here's some other projects we worked on this first marking period, many are hanging the walls outside the art room!
4th graders worked on 'big' paintings. We focused on flowers, the students were introduced to Georgia O'Keeffe. They drew the flowers really big, and then we painted them trying to use darks and lights to create value. We also tried to use complimentary colors to help emphasize the flower and really make it pop!
They turned out great!
1st graders have been working on cityscapes and a watercolor painting. The cityscapes were abstract, we used tissue paper and paint to create the shapes of buildings. We talked about architecture and what architects do and we also talked about overlapping. For the watercolor painting we did a pig, we talked about the kinds of animals you might see on a farm. We also talked about foreground, middle ground, and background.
I was also impressed because we used watercolor, and that can be messy, we really focused on good craftsmanship and the kids were so excited to learn we could make shades of pink by using thinned out red watercolor.
Kindergarten had been working on paper projects to help develop those fine motor skills and to help the understand techniques for cutting and tearing paper, and of course using very little glue!
We worked on an initial collage, we talked about what initials are and helped each other figure out our correct initials. They also did a Kandinsky circle project where they cut different sized circles out of paper and had to glue them down overlapping different colors.
We had a painting 101 day, with surprisingly very little mess! The students learned about how to hold a paint brush, how to clean them, how to mix primary colors into secondary, and we just kinda played around a bit writing out names in paint. Just before fall break I had them practicing portraits and pigs so one of these might become our first real painting project. We also had an opportunity to work with modeling clay and real clay in the first 9 weeks making fish!
