Art Show 2012

Thanks to everyone who made it to the Student Showcase & Art Show last night.  If you couldn’t make it here are some pictures of the art work and each grade’s project for the evening.

   

   

  

  

Kindergarten looked at Beth Krommes’ illustrations in the book “The House in the Night” and learned all about how wood block printing is done.  Then they made their own houses in the night by printing a styrofoam block that they had carved.

1st Grade learned the different parts of a landscape (horizon line, background, middle ground and fore ground) by looking at landscapes by Vincent Van Gogh.  They painted each part of their landscape separately and then we put them together so they were three dimensional in order to emphasize the different parts.

2nd Grade learned about batik which originated in Indonesia then they dyed their own piece of fabric using the batik method.

3rd Grade worked together to make a black and white painting of Mt. Hood. Each student was given a strip of the picture and a strip of paper and after learning about value (the darkness or lightness of a color) were asked to mix and copy the  values in their strip of the picture onto their strip of paper. They didn’t know it was a picture of Mt. Hood until we put them all together when they were done.

4th Grade learned about Greek pottery and then made their own pot using coils of clay.  To decorate it we covered the entire piece with black slip (a mixture of clay and water) and then they scratched Greek inspired designs into it to show the white clay underneath the slip.

5th Grade learned about Christian & Medieval Art from the Middle Ages and that painting on a wooden panel became popular during this period because paintings meant to inspire worship could be moved from place to place. They were each given a wooden panel and were asked paint on it in the style of the wooden panels we had looked at.

6th Grade learned about installation art and were inspired by artist Tara Donovan’s  use of everyday objects such as plastic drinking straws and styrofoam cups to create pieces of art.  Then they made a hanging sculpture out of origami pyramids that they had made.

Australian Dot Paintings

Here a couple Australian Dot Paintings that 2nd Grade just finished.  They found it took a lot of patience!

   

Thank You

I just wanted to take a moment to thank all my wonderful students.  I am so blessed to have a job where I get to spend my days sharing what I love & inspires me with such a wonderful group of kids.  I continue to learn so much from their work and their thoughts &  insight teaches me so much!  I love being your teacher & hope you all have a fabulous Christmas Break!

2nd Grade Parols

2nd Grade learned about Parols (Star Shaped Lanterns) from the Philippines.  Parols are a very important symbol of Christmas that reminds Filipinos of the Star of Bethlehem.  Communities and families get together to make Parols to hang in their windows every Christmas Season much as we get together to decorate our Christmas Trees in the United States.  I hope you’ve had a chance to see 2nd Grade’s Parols on the bulletin board in the school entry way.  They did a fabulous job on them!

Kindergarten’s Snowmen

Kindergarten has been learning about Illustrators and that their job is to tell a story using pictures.  We just finished learning about Lois Ehlert and recently looked at her illustrations in the books “Leaf Man” & ”Snowballs.”  Here are some of Kindergarten’s Snowmen inspired by ”Snowballs.”

 

 

Smile PC

In the beginning of the year 6th Grade learned about Boston Artist Bren Bataclan & how he leaves his paintings for people to find and keep for free.  His hope is that he will bring a smile to the face of the person who finds his paintings.  We decided to do the same thing at our school.  Each of the 6th graders worked hard on a painting & we will spend the rest of the school year leaving them around the school for people to find.  Four have been left somewhere so far but I thought I’d show you a few that have yet to be hidden. You can find out more about Bren Bataclan and follow a link to video about him from CBS evening News on his website http://www.bataclan.com/

 

 

Draw Like an Egyptian

4th and 5th Grade have been studying Art History and we recently looked at Egyptian Art.  They had to make a drawing following the same strict rules of proportion that the Egyptians followed.  Here are some of the 5th Graders finished products (the 4th Graders are still working on theirs).

     

 

What 1st Grade Wants to Eat on Thanksgiving…

1st grade has been studying the art of Henri Matisse.  They learned that he turned to making pictures by “drawing with scissors” toward the end of his career when he was bed ridden and then in a wheelchair.  We looked at Matisse’s picture “Vegetables” and then I asked them to make a picture of what they wish they could eat on Thanksgiving using only paper and glue…I didn’t even let them have pencils.

 

 

 

2nd Grade’s Venetian Masks

2nd Grade is learning about art from around the world.  They recently learned about Venetian Carnival Masks.  Here are some pictures of them in the masks they made.

2A Mrs. James’ Class:

2B Mrs. Isakson’s Class:

Donations Needed

I am in need of wrapping paper tubes & empty 2 liter soda bottles for the Art Room.  If you have any you’d like to donate you can leave them for me in the office or in the Art Room. Thanks!