The focus of this year has been on learning about artistic movements and developing key art-making skills through them. We have been learning a lot about art vocabulary and how to use different materials!
We meet in the art room with Mrs. Long once a week for forty minutes. Because Mrs. Long groups 3rd & 4th grade for projects, we alternate projects every other year.
We meet in the art room with Mrs. Long once a week for forty minutes. Because Mrs. Long groups 3rd & 4th grade for projects, we alternate projects every other year.
Students learn about George Seurat and his pointillism paintings. Students also review color mixing and learn about optical color mixing. Students draw a colorful animal and use only dots of primary colors to color them in. Students then create an environment for their animal using cut colored paper.
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Students analyze and interpret Louis Nevelson's famous assemblage works. They then use found objects that represent themselves to create their own small shaddow box. The interior of the box is painted a solid color of their choice and boxes are hung together to create an installation.
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Students learn about the paper mache process and create a figure of their choice to create. Using newspaper and masking tape, they create the "skeleton" of their object then use a glue and water mixture on strips of newspaper to create the "meat". When they are finished, they use acrylic paint to color their objects.
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Students read about artists Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, Patrick Dougherty, Michael Heizer, Chris Booth, Tara Donovan, Tom Friedman, and Vik Muniz before taking an outdoor adventure to collect nature materials. In groups, students compiled their naturally found materials with garbage and recycled materials from home to create colorful and imaginative sculptures. Some even represented how nature and humans interact with one another!
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After looking at and talking about popular comic book super heroes and learning about graphic novel/comic illustration, students turn themselves into super heroes! The students then created a short story that had a beginning, a middle, and an end and could be shown in just a few boxes.
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Students created vessels out of clay using the coiling method. After the clay was bisque fired, student glazed their dishes and added colored glass marbles to the bottom of their dish before being fired again. The marbles melted to the bottom of their dishes in the kiln to create a beautiful crackled glass texture.
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A Miss Siegel (student teacher 2018) lesson! Students learn about Greek story telling and amphoras. Using thin cardboard, students create their vase shape, cover it with orange crayon, and paint a black tempera paint and soap mixture on top. After the layers of paint are dry, students carve a story into their ampohoras.
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More Coming Soon!