Look at what we have learned!!!!

For my last post of this school year, I wanted to highlight some of the major projects and concepts that the students have learned.
Please enjoy the beautiful artwork that follows.
Thank you for all of your hard work this year.
Be creative over the summer!!
Mrs. Rich

Drawing with Your Scissors

COLLAGE

I describe the technique of collage to the students as "drawing with your scissors."
The technique of collage teaches the students many concepts - shape, spatial relationships(overlapping, foreground/background), and texture to name a few.
They have to use their problem solving skills to figure out how to "build" their composition. It is different than drawing, because you have to think about the picture from the background forward.
As the student progresses in their artistic thinking and skills, the compositions can become increasingly complex.


Here are some examples of the second and third grade collage projects this year.

Featured Artist: Mark

In this second grade project, students used the bottom of their shoes to start a fish shape. Each "fish" was unique because each student had a different texture on the bottom of their shoe.
Then they had to build an underwater environment for their fish to swim in.
Torn paper and texture scissors added more details to the collages.







Featured Artist: Kaiser
"Lake Eries Monster"
The third grade students were asked to create a landscape collage. They were required to include the three parts of a landscape - foreground, middleground and background - and have details in each part. Most details had to be made with paper, either cut or torn, and only the tiniest details could be added with fine tip marker.
They were asked to write a descriptive title for the landscapes.

Thinking about Peace

This year, one of the themes the students learned about was the different ways that art can communicate a message. The fourth grade and the second grade looked at the idea of communicating a message of peace.

Fourth grade studied the art of Edward Hicks and several of his Peaceable Kingdom paintings.

The students were asked to think about peace - in their life, in the community and in the world. They wrote their own message of peace and used it in the border of their artwork. For their artwork, they were required to choose two animals that would not normally get along and represent the animals existing peacefully together.

Here are some examples:

Featured Artist: Tommy

Featured Artist: Kendra

Second grade students were asked to think about peace in a different way.

Each student finished the sentence, "Peace is......" and created the artwork to illustrate their sentence.

Featured Artist: Aidan

Using Elements & Principles of Art

LINE - SHAPE - TEXTURE - COLOR - FORM

These are just some of the Elements & Principles of Art that the students have been learning all year in art class.

The students learn them as concepts and apply them to their artwork.

They also learn them as vocabulary and use them during class discussions about their artwork and the artwork of famous artists.

Here are a few examples of how the students used the Elements & Principles of Art in their artwork this year:
Featured Artist: Miranda
In this third grade lesson, students learned about the artist, Georgia O'Keeffe. They applied her style of making a magnified (or close-up) composition.
Students were asked to use line and color in a very specific way.







In this first grade lesson, we started with the book The Rainbow Fish. This is a wonderful story with a lesson about sharing and making friends.
Students learned to draw the fish starting with basic shapes. Then they practiced their painting skills carefully painting all the scales on their fish.
There were many steps and processes for the students to follow in this lesson - a great test for all they have learned this year!

Featured Artist: Sergio
In this fourth grade lesson, students learned about the concept of form versus flat shape.
Students were asked to used shading to suggest the form of the lighthouse and other objects in their composition.