5th Grade - Unit 2 - Figure Sculptures

Our 5th grade students studied the work of sculptor Alberto Giacometti to gain inspiration for this project.  They learned about the proper proportions of the human body and practice drawing the body in motion through fast gesture drawings.  Their sculptures are made of wire and tape.   

First Grade - The art of Architecture

Our first graders learned about the art of Architecture during this unit.  They tried out their skills as a architect in many ways.  First by building with blocks and doing observational drawings of their creations.  Two, by using stamp printing of blocks and legos to design a building on paper then painting it bright colors. Third, by testing their imaginations and problem solving skills to see if they could create a 3-dimensional building out of paper and tape.  And lastly, they discussed the architecture and buildings of their community and created a class community mural with each child creating a different part.





   

Kindergarten - Unit 2 - Winter birds

Project Focus:  Combining shapes to make a new object, texture and landscape

This project began by a discussion on texture.  The students then used a dry paint brush and black paint to paint scratchy textures on white paper.  Next, they created texture by drawing patterns on paper then painted over it with watercolor paint.  They later used this to create their land and birds.  Next, they learned what a landscape is - a picture of land.  They create the trees from their textured paper and the snowy horizon line by tearing white paper.  Finally, they created their winter birds after being introduced to one of my favorite artist, Charley Harper.  He started off as a graphic designer and it shows in his paintings of birds.  The students could really see how he used geometric shapes to create their birds similar to the way Harper did.

Kindergarten -Unit 2-Polar Express

In kindergarten art, I like to keep reinforcing to the students that all objects can be created by drawing shapes together.  They did this for this project with a little inspiration from one of my all time favorite book and movie during this time of year, The Polar Express.  The students watched a short clip from the movie then set off on creating their own train adventures.

Fifth Grade - Unit 2 - Reductive Printmaking

For this lesson, the 5th graders learned a new printmaking technique that allows them to use more than one color in a printmaking project.  This new method is called reductive printmaking.  They were inspired by many of the famous pet portrait artist popular today such as...

Artist James Dean's Pete the Cat,  George Rodrigue's Blue Dog and Laurel Burch's Cats

Artist: James Dean, Red Flowers

Artist: George Rodrigue, Alice in Wonderland

Artist: Laurel Burch, Two Cats 

Student Work