The final stretch.....

Spring Break is over.. and April showers have finally arrived!!!

This being the first year back at elementary... I am unsure on how to finish but I am excited with what we have in store for us!
ARTWORK is going home... depending on the grade level, you have a lot or a little....
2nd grade worked hard on Team collaboration projects this year with their Chihuly chandeliers, Keith Haring action life-size paintings, and Van Gogh basket of yarn-painted Sunflowers... I love the collaborative projects!

4th Grade:
Paw Collaborative Project.  & Paper Mache.
Each student will be given a (  ) sheet.  They will develop their Paw Print and decide what kind of media they would like to use... using more of a drawing platform / painting platform / or a mixed media platform to create their paw print to be put up for permanent display in the library.
Each class will be doing a different variation of the Paw Project and this will go with our PBIS work on 'Being a Top Dog' at Howe Elementary.

Paper Mache-  love this stuff.. and lets face it.  it is time to get messy... we will be making paper mache bowls... pretty low key but definitely doable.

3rd grade will be developing a Totem Pole Project for our School Garden....
Pacific Northwest Totem Pole History Video.
Native American Totem Poles and Their Meanings.
Examples from another Art Classroom....in Alberta, Canada + Ms. McCallum's Art Room.

Color. Texture. Pattern... What would we like for our class totem?

Grade 2:

Cityscape Painting... a focus on Architecture.  Pattern.  Color.  With 3 musts.. a Road, Buildings, Sky... the rest is all up to them.

Grade 1:

Dippity dyes & Fish Fun..... 

K:

Flowers made from reusable materials and COLOR MIXING.... Spring is in the AIR!

(pics to come).....

APRIL!

K-
Sunflowers Mixed Media Collage....
Paint, Marker, Paper, Collage Paper....

Completed Amate Bark Paintings & Sunflowers

1-
Printmaking-

We have design our Laurel Birch inspired cats (or lions) and will be printing them.

Then we will be applying them to our Primary Color Patterned Paint papers.

Cutting some detail into the edges and finishing it off with some FUN!

2- 

Weaving + Stitching + Metal Symmetrical Mask w/ Lines + Shapes

Our burlap was woven with a pattern of paper strips, trimming the edges and then applying it to paper to have a running stitch on the edges of the burlap.  NEXT we work on the mask!  Metal Tooling is so exciting.  The possibilities!

 

3-

Radial Design Weaving with Complimentary colors

We are using a kind of diffusing paper to create a radial design project.  Two sized papers will be designed and then a pair of compliments will be chosen to use.  Sharpie is outlining the design which creates a type of barrier for the paint to stop spreading... I am using liquid watercolor with them that I have watered down.

They are to think about color, positive & negative space and the way they are choosing what gets filled in and what doesn't - One color per paper.

My practice design used primary colors but we are WAY beyond that in 3rd grade!

4- 

Amate Bark Painting Continues on and we will be writing about our work.  Students have had to chose an animal, reptile, bird, bug... the list goes on.  They will not complete their project by incorporating a paragraph about that main object- they will use the write tools concept we have been working on this year in our school.

Topic.   3-4 BIG IDEAS.   Conclusion.

My example for the Panda Bear:

         The giant panda lives in the mountainous regions of central China that are full of bamboo forests.  Bamboo is the main course for pandas to dine on.  They spend almost half of their day, 12 hours, eating bamboo.  It takes 28 pounds of bamboo to meet a panda's daily intake of food.  These mountainous, bamboo regions are very cool and wet.  It is a perfect climate for the panda to live and eat.

More ART!

Jim Dine & his Hearts series
- clay coil project for second grade

Amate Bark Painting

- one main focus piece surrounded with flora, fauna, or a border.

focus piece- animal, amphibian, insect, bird, fish, etc

Ex

Laurel Birch Inspired Cat Prints

- printing with black using styrofoam plates and creating a colorful patterned background using a primary base with secondary shapes and lines.

Radial Balance 

- students will create two works on dye paper.  using permanent markers to block areas, liquid water colors will be used to fill in the sections. 1- primary 1- secondary or Complimentary colors or Monochromatic schemes.

an example of radial symmetry

Youth Art Month & the KIDzART Show @ McMillan Library..

.. is HERE & UP!!!

This is my first year in elementary in a while boys & girls... and thanks to all your creativity we have had a successful year.  Something I have learned along the way- dive in, see how it goes, and learn along the way.. Boy, have you youngsters taught me so much this year!

Here are some photos for a little bit of a sneak peak:
Lots of beautiful work.  We are definitely surrounded by some magnificent art teachers and artists-in-training!!

Come and celebrate with us on March 13th at our Art Reception from 4:30 - 6:30

The ART SHOW & Specials Showcase is fast approaching..

SO what is going on as we get ready....

Tesselations, Aboriginal Paintings and clay completions!  Penguins and Yarn Painting OH MY!

Just a lot going on that won't make it into this year's art show but will hopefully be up on display this month for Specials Showcase..... during the month of March!

Van Gogh's Sunflowers! & Yarn painting.

Picasso details to add some POP!

Tesselations Colored Pencil

Penguin Painting with Tempera

Clay & Glaze... what is it exactly?

January goodies for 1st and 2nd

1st graders - Polar Animals, Weaving & Clay
We will kick this season off with Penguins.
Penguin Bloopers / National Geographic Emperor Penguins / Penguin Launch
Our first project will be a paper weaving project.
Student will learn about cool colors and create paint papers to be used in their penguin paper weaving.
Their Penguins will be created on large white paper and they will be using black tempera to paint in their penguin.

Second project will be a clay project.  Clay penguins with textured circles.
This is going to be a project that will be able to hang.  Students will learn not only handbuilding techniques with the penguins but also about textures applied to the circles.  Hole will help string the all together.


2nd grade - The end of Van Gogh's Starry Night & the finishing of their fish or turtle bowls that were created earlier this semester.