December Projects.

Kinder - Primary Color Painting + Cutting.
Lots of work with blending paint, scissors cutting, and marker outlining.
This is huge to build up their fine motor skills and their comprehension of seeing and doing.


Grade 1-
Penguin Projects -
Paper weaving + Clay Penguin Building!
Then
Wayne Thiebaud + Cupcakes

Grade 2-
Paper woven houses - work on completing
THEN
Polar Bears with Personality!
Values from light to dark to show value in work creating more of a 3-d look to the polar bear
+ personality - collage work on details- hats, glasses, earrings, crowns, ear muffs, party hats, bows

Grade 3-
Radial Printmaking Project 3"x 3" = 6"x 6"
Balance
Clay Frame making for our weaving project

Grade 4-
Glazing. Glazing. Portrait completing... lets just get it all done!
so we can get to this:
Symmetrical Paper Mask-making Project
Balance

Grade 5-
Paintings + Dino-Dragons Glazing. Glazing. Glazing.
then
Mrs. Pep- Guitar Relief Sculptures
Mrs. Kizewski- Op Art Cubes OR Clay Bobbleheads
Mrs. Sonnenberg- Abstract Wire Sculptures

Paperweaving Projects

Video 1.

This explains weaving with yarn on a loom.

We are going to be working on paper weaving...

And creating some different paper weaving works.

warms cools & compliments Portrait Project

Primary Colors that Create Secondary Colors

Grade 1 Polar Unit: Penguins

Penguin Videos: 1 / 2 / 3

Grade 5 - Ceramic Project

Dinosaurs & Dragons.... You Decide... BUT be ready to Work Hard and Be Precise

Dinosaurs- You need to be able to create, label, and identify what your dinosaur eats.

Dragons- You need to be able to create, label, and identify what your dragon protects.

Step. 1

Pinch Pot

Step. 2

Everything Else.

Move from Big Parts to Detail

Kinder Pumpkins

Lots of work with shapes lately and we need to get going on our large Pumpkins that are ready to roll in!

We are going to be working on collage.  Using color to overlap and create layers with our projects.
We are also going to be making Pumpkin Personalities!

What kind of pumpkin do we have?
Happy? Sad? or take is another step further... is it a Monster?  is it a Pumpkin Princess?

Song:  Pumpkin Grows

A Piece of Clay-Cake Writing Re-Cap & Dinosaur/Dragon Re-Cap

Closing up the clay creations....
Goals are to complete the detail work.
MAKING SURE we scratch and wet what needs to stay connected.
Smooth what needs to have a smooth surface and add texture where needed.

Finally- Our Writing Re-Cap                           EX)
1) rough draft   2) final draft on lined paper

TOPIC_________________                          Wayne Thiebaud, painter  + dessert artist  + POP art
                                                                        clay container + ...
                                                                               - What kind of dinosaur inspired you?

Big Idea________________                          First I......How did you construct the clay container?
          Supporting Details                                slab  +  coils   +  scratch and attach  

Big Idea________________                          Then I.... or Next I....  What idea did you design for
          Supporting Details                                your lid/cover/top of cake?  Why did you choose this?
                                                                                - What kind of details made your dinosaur great!

Big Idea________________                           In order to create my design.......  What did you have
          Supporting Details                                 to do in order to make your drawing become a                                                                                          sculpture?

CONCLUSION__________                           Finally..... How did it all work out for you?  If you                                                                                  could do it again, what would you change?  If it turned                                                                            out great, why do you think that is?

Grade 2 Portraits

Color Groups-
Warms - red, orange, yellow
Cools - blue, green, purple
Paint papers to use for our background and framing.

then

Contour Line Portraits......
Using photos to understand the sections needed to identify hair, face, ears, neck, shoulders, shirts, teeth, lips, eyes, etc..... ITs Tough = Work Hard!

G will be our example.
 Enjoy a smile as you get your photos back.

 Then we work to find our lines - stick to WHAT YOU SEE.  do not rush through what YOU THINK YOU SEE.... we don't need to think about what it looks like when it is right in front of us to look at and trace.

1. Use pencil first on top of photo.

2. Use the lights boxes to transfer the pencil lines onto the back of the sheet.

Don't miss any!

3. Tape transparency on top and then go-to-town tracing the pencil lines with permanent marker.

FINALLY-

We will put the colors and the contours together..... 

scissors, stamping, collaging... they know the drill.

Aboriginal Artwork + Storytelling

Aboriginal Art of Australia

First - we will learn about positive and negative space.
Positive space - the space occupied by the 'main' subjects (color, shapes, lines, objects)
Negative space - that space with an 'absense' of occupancy.  that area around the 'positive space'

Dreamtime- Time of Creation

Aboriginal Hand Stencils + connection to the land

We will be looking at Aboriginal symbols to help us tell the story of our walk-about.

Surrounding the symbols will be the focus of the Aboriginal dot painting.

These are some examples- only we will be creating a story of symbols also.

What are the color combinations you see in these examples?

We will work to create our story with our write tools format- Green yellow Green

Shape Monsters and Gustav Klimt

K- MORE shape work... this week we are creating our own shape Monsters!
Book:  Go Away, big, green, monster
We will also finish our Mouse Shapes picture with a little mouse house.

1- Gustav Klimt and his tree of life.... spiral lines meet visual texture in our foreground/background combination

Wayne Thiebaud's Cakes Gr 4

Wayne Thiebaud

We begin with getting to know him.. and his passions for the simple things in life.

Then... we learn some perspective drawing with simple forms.  A little focus on tints and shades for our added understanding.

And finally- CLAY!

Slab and Coil Building with our fun detail work!  Always an absolute success!!!

Piet Mondrian

First Grade has move on to their primary color mixing to secondary colors!

The fun of paint is endless!

So lets get a bit of a lesson on Mondrian!

Mondrian Animation. 3D
Lines. Color. Music

Dia De Los Muertos

Dia de los Muertos

What is it?

Where did it originate?

Glue Batiking. Is. Fabulous.

The Sugar Skull and it's symbolism with Dia de los Muertos is our inspiration!

The Process: Draw. Glue. Paint. Dry. Soak in warm water.  WALA!

Perspective Projects

5) Perspective Projects- focusing on vanishing points and depth in 2D images
K- 1pt Perspective project paintings with a city-line in the background....
P- 1pt Perspective project mixed media- relief work.  Painted background with a shape perspective collage that is 'popping' out of the painting.

By Artist: Ben Heine

Kandinsky. Keith Haring. Grant Wood.

3) Grant Wood- American Painter from Iowa
Landscapes - Folk Art Landscapes
Perspective- foreground, middle-ground, background
Pattern / Visual Texture / Line

2) Keith Haring- 2nd grade is going to be awesome at this:
A wild guy that began a movement of motion based on simple lines and solid shapes.
Haring moved to New York City in 1980 when he was just 20 years old to attend college at the School of Visual Arts. This was an exciting time to live in New York City because a lot of exciting things were happening in the art world. Haring was excited to be a part of it all, but because he didn't have a lot of money, he could not go see artwork he loved in the big museums and galleries. Haring thought this was unfair and believed that art should belong to everyone and that it should be free to the public. This inspired Haring to begin creating his artwork places where everyone could see, like the subway and on sides of building. Soon, people began to take notice of his fun, cartoony style and he became one of the most famous artists of his time!
Then we work in some practice.
Actions & Emotion & Movement with the body.

1) Kandinsky - a symphony to stimulate the ears of the observe
Shape / Layering / Color 
Painting, Cutting. Texture Stamping.