Getting the 'GooD StufF' going on.

Portrait projects are on the way... with a little Eric Carle fun for 1st

4th Graders are stepping up to the plate with Warm/Cool or Complimentary Color Scheme Half-Portraits

3rd Graders are getting to know Mr. Modigliani & his portrait style and also how to test, work, and blend their soft pastels.
And they are lookin great!

2nd Graders are experimenting with contour line and pattern backgrounds.

1st Grade is working on the Caterpillar Collages:

Eric Carle 'The Very Hungy Caterpillar' 

Portraiture Projects BEGIN

2nd-
Warm and Cool Color schemes and the feelings behind colors.
Creating Warm & Cool Paint Papers with tempera cakes
Learning about contour lines (a continued outline with no shading) and using photographs of themselves to create a contour line drawing.
Their portraits will be on one paint paper so the black 'pops' off the paper.
The opposing paint paper will be used for their names on their projects.

3rd-
Abstract Portraits with Modigliani Inspiration
Black paper and Elmers glue will start this project off.  Our drawing will be worked out onto a long black paper that we will then be using our glue bottles to help us go over the lines.  The glue will dry and we will fill in the image with soft pastels.

Modigliani (Amedeo Modigliani) was famous for his elongated and elegant portraits, painted in Paris back in the early 1900s. Heads and necks were long and narrow, giving his subjects a very graceful look.

fixed the dripping glue... but eliminating the eyes for the modigliani hollow look

4th-
1/2 portraits & lots of color.  Guidelines help us work this portrait out.  Focusing on shapes and lines and all the good stuff that makes us- US!
Warm & Cool color schemes or Complimentary color pairs will be used for our defining of the hair / skin.  Oil Pastels will be the go-to in this project!  Our faces will be cut out and applied to a black / white or black & white background.  (Variety people!!! Everyone loves VarIety)
We will also be working on Block Lettering.  This we will begin working on to then find some details to add to our work!!!

Kathy Barbro rocks!

Lets Be Awesome.

The Howe Elementary Art Room

WELCOME TO HOWE!

Home of the Bulldogs.

First year at Elementary.... since I graduated from college and taught for a year and here I am trying to get back in the saddle with the youngsters.

Will admit: I had no idea what having an 'art room' would be like.  I have been Art-On-A-Cart down south and then when I came back to Wisco I have been in shared areas ever since.... So set-up, bulletin boards, organization, and truly making a room as functional-as-possible was the absolute goal.

So this is as far as we have gotten.... still clean but that will be changing soon!

Themed it with 'COLOR'.  Primary, Secondary, and Complimentary.  Worked in a Word Wall & the Elements n Principles.
This year our PBIS is 'Howe to be a Top Dog' so we are working on being 'Top Dog Classes' in Art.
Our Artists will be 'Top Dog Artistis'.....

Kudos to pinterest and the amazing people out there showing their galleries off of student work, bulletin boards, projects, and all that greatness.  It has been so helpful and inspiring!!  BIG thank you!

Will be honest.. I love spray paint... so the chinese lanterns, cds, planters, and containers were all sprayed to add some color- everywhere!

Magnets are super nice on the dry-erase boards also!!

This room is shared by two teachers... and space is always the issue... so working to make it as functional as possible so we don't pull our hair out with the craziness that can become an art room.
Lets face it.... Art really isn't all that funny if we don't get messy..
So the ultimate Goal will be 'Controlled Chaos'.

WE BEGIN!

Projects to get us going... Color and Portraiture.
K-1 we are working on paste paper and texture creations!
     Color! Primary Colors & what they create!
2- contour line portraits + warm and cool colors + FONTs - tissue paper, transperancy, lettering
3- modigliani inspired portraits with a twist of pattern - glue, pastels, blending
4- portraiture and lettering - measuring, marker and colored pencil
Found this idea online from a couple great examples HERE & HERE.
This is an awesome beginning- portraiture: and we are all about it.

Welcome 2 Art!

Rules.
Expectations.  What it takes to be a 'Top Dog' Artist and a 'Top Dog' Class in Art.
Sketchbook.
'Toss A Round' ~Getting to know Ms. Tonn & our class together.

The 'Dot' Project.

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Sept. 15th is International Dot Day.

The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

K-1  we will work on lines and color families.
2-4   we will work on line color shape and patterns.

Lots of great stuff will come from this awesome school project.  Working together and combining our quarter circles to be complete will be an awesome vision:
We will help each other to complete the circle...