March & April

 5th - 

1 point perspective!

Design Your Own Destination & Choose Your Own Media to Color!

Work on perspective and the Artist Ben Heine

4th - 

Aluminum Foil and Permanent Marker Relief Scuptures then Tie Dye Pillows!!

Permanent Marker _ rubbing alcohol + Stitching = all the fun

Permanent Marker Dye Tutorial - Cup, rubber band, markers, brush, cup of alcohol

Stitching 101 with Cassie Stephens - How To Thread a Needle + Whip Stitch

Add a pillow tassel.  DIY

3rd - 

Britto Dogs and Cats with a Collage Background then... Aboriginal Artwork

2nd - 

Woven Animals, Metal Symmetrical Monsters with a Pattern Border, and BEES

1st - 

Monet Impressionist Painting and Cupcakes!

Kinder - 

Monet's Waterlilies collage + Clay slab and pinch pot then Snakes In The Grass Weaving

Art To Remember 2022

What is Art to Remember?

https://arttoremember.com/

Art to remember is a program that takes the art we make and applies it to other objects.  Like: stickers, magnets, ornaments, canvases, shirts, bags, lunch bags, coffee mugs, you name it...

Have we done this before?  Yes, about 3 years ago.

Grade level projects-

K- LOVE works.  Inspired by the artist - Robert Indiana and his LOVE sculpture.

Our book read along is - LOVE - https://youtu.be/zwrA4UHL9_0

1- LOVE monster.  Inspired by the book The Love Monster. https://youtu.be/Z0234hLwsMY

After video - Love monster makes hot chocolate - https://youtu.be/1SoBNfPzyYw

2- Cityscapes - James Rizzi

https://youtu.be/jA30rgD-ERA  

3- Suns and Moons

4- Zentangle Landscapes

Worksheet Review in File.

5- Succulents!

Worksheets in file + Idea sheets 

January - February

 Projects

Kinder - Snow and Everything Cold.  Learning about the snow weather cycle. Snowflake stamping, mitten and hat collaging, and snowy sceneries.

The Little Snowflake  - https://youtu.be/0z5t02vF9OY

The Mitten by Jan Bret - https://youtu.be/d3rRWzdHv5M

The Hat by Jan Bret - https://youtu.be/2HQCKghkI_8

The Snowy Day - https://youtu.be/FmZCQfeWjeQ

1 - Polar Unit and Penguins

Paper Penguin Weaving and Collage + Clay Penguin Making

 All you want to know about Penguins

Fast Facts on Penguins

Emperor Penguins Underwater

Project 1 - Penguin Weavings.  We will focus on a color pattern for our penguin bellies and will be working to create a penguin with personality as we put the parts of our penguin together.

Weaving: Video of Construction Paper Weaving.

Project 2 - Clay Penguin Slab Building.
Parts of a Emperor Penguin

2- Hearts + Alma Thomas

Clay Coil Heart Making + Glazing

Mini heart paintings and Alma Thomas Backgrounds - Link to Alma Thomas Post

3- Jen Aranyi Winter Landscapes - Marker and Watercolor

Virtual Guest Artist Interview- Meet Jen!

DYO Snowglobe - https://youtu.be/eLgwWpAunHE

4- Succulents!  I love these resilient plants~ Link to post

Some draw along fun - https://youtu.be/bbqJ4tkvg_U

5-

BRITTO!  I love this guy!  Fun, colorful, so many designs!!!

Romero Britto...

Video 1 - https://youtu.be/YQO2l2nbftc

Video 2 - https://youtu.be/vpo8pKNe1d8

A fun interview by Sasha!  https://youtu.be/oHJVM_TxNXs

We will be working on our Britto Inspired - Self Portraits!!!!  These are always so cool!!!!

November - December

After clay for 4th and 5th grade we begin our annual Snowman Collage.

In 4th and 5th grade we learn to design our own because at this point we are on year 5 and 6 of our snowman scaffolding adventure.

https://video.link/w/PTqQc The Snowman   

https://video.link/w/VWqQc The Snowman and the Snowdog

Kinder - traditional snowman making

1st - snow-elves

2nd - snow dog and cats

3rd - snow animals

4th - DYO Snowfriend - focus on paper layering

5th - DYO Snowfriend - focus on detail, paper manipulation

SOOO FUN!

Grade 3 - worked on a leaf pattern using warm and cool oil pastels, finished their Hokusai works, and also did clay pinch pot birds

Grade 2 - finished their warm and cool paper collage trees

Grade 1 - finished their Klimt spiral tree paintings

K - finished their scarecrow paper collage and their leaf color mixing paintings

October - November

5- The Great Dino-dragon Making!

https://youtu.be/zBkjFGYKMhA - Rexy goes to Mama

https://youtu.be/-GfNEDs3ERw  - Rexy and the Volcano

4- Dia De Los Muertos  mini project and then Clay Bobbleheads!

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/top-ten-day-of-dead-mexico

Video - https://youtu.be/-v4-1wFEzM0

Bobble heads - link to post

3- Hokusai and Picasso

2- Warm - Cool - Contrasting Tree making - Pics to come...

https://youtu.be/w6K08wrI9dA - warm and cool colors with kids

https://youtu.be/htN1VJW3ePo - warm and cool color song

1- Mondrian Spider Webs and then Gustav Klimt

Primary colors + Web Design

Mondrian - https://youtu.be/k_t8eAca9CU

Spiral Lines!

K- 5 little pumpkins on a Gate directed drawing then Kusami Pumpkin Painting

https://youtu.be/cm1qvX1ygOo - 5 little pumpkins on a gate

Kusami + Dotted Pumpkins

https://youtu.be/GUoDUhsWJL8 - Book read along 

https://youtu.be/JAPFH-hgfEI - Pumpkins draw along 

September

Art Room Rules

1. Be Respectful

2. Be Responsible

3. Be Safe!

 5- Neon Tigers - Drawing and painting adventure.  Color Mixing with neon paints, blending and texture. 

4- Multi-step artmaking project!  Texture rubbings, resists, marker work, paint and movement.  Transitional to radial collage background, eye and nose creating for dog or cat. 

http://elementaryartfun.blogspot.com/2017/11/collage-animals.html?m=1

3- Landscape Drawing and Painting with Grant Wood

Drawing - Foreground, Middle ground, Background

Add in rounded trees, road, river..

https://youtu.be/6REE0gi0xoI

2. Keith Haring!  The man of movement and color.  Let's learn about this great artist!

'Art should belong to everyone and that it should be free to the public'

Book - The Boy Who Kept Drawing

K-1 - Stations work.  Coloring. Cutting. Stitching. Texturizing. Tracing. Building.

Books - Too Much Glue - The Dot - The Ish