Polar Unit

Grade 1
The Penguin.
All you want to know about penguins
Fast Facts - Reminder
Tobogganing / Underwater Penguins

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

Perspective Paintings

Grade 5 - Link

Shapes!

Kinder and their Shapes....

Mouse Shapes

Shape Monsters

Shape Robots
- video

Bee Making

Grade 2
Ceramic Bees
-coil making and getting to know our honey bees

Hokusai - Picasso - Chihuly

Grade 3
Hokusai and the Great Wave
Video- Link
Oil Pastel waves and Mt. Fuji - line, color, pattern
Watercolor background - salt texture, warm color mixing

Grade 3 

Picasso and The Double Face

Clay handbuilding- slab, coil, positive and negative space. texture.

Chihuly

Glass Artist

Through the Looking Glass

Persian Series

Artrageous with Nate

Wayne Thiebaud

All about Dessert!

Grade 1 - Link
Clay Cupcake Pinch Pots
Watercolor resist Ice Cream Cones
Cupcake Collage

Grade 4 - Link
Clay Slices of Cake
3D cake drawing

Fall into.... ART

Pattern and Contour Lines

Pumpkin Color Mixing and some Personality!

Pumpkin painting - with a focus of color blending on our paper.
We will create all the parts of our collage and then assemble them.  Our focus will be on the front and back of a picture.
We will also learn about personality in art... how do we create personality in our details on our projects.

Mondrian

The Man of Primary colors and Geometric shapes....
Music and Mondrian Video
Mondrian- The Lost City animation

First Graders will be reviewing their primary and introduced to secondary color mixing.

Mondrian will inspire their painting and his bold, black lines will be filled with a variety of learned lines.

Picasso Faces and Bobble Heads

Ready or not... CLAY IS HERE!

Pablo Picasso- "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
Picasso Head - Make your own

The man of Abstraction! (not realistic)
Video- #1  #2

Monster Bobble Heads!

Video - How to...

1. Design

2. Pinch pot

3. Details on pinch pot + smooth inside surface

then

1. Base building

2. Hollowing out the base

3. Details and textures

Lets Do This!

Dia de los Muertos + Portraiture

Grade 4
Dia de los Muertos
A celebration of life on Nov 1 and 2.
We will be creating our own Sugar Skulls, a symbol of Day of the Dead, in Latino traditions.
A great video: Dia de los Muertos
Many of you have experience 'The Book of Life' and it talks about this tradition in Hispanic culture.

Each fourth grade may be doing a bit of a different process for their sugar skulls creation....
But first.. we draw!

Portraits!

A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person.

Grade 2 - Link to previous post

Henri Rousseau . Gustav Klimt

Henri Rousseau...

Video - Mati and Dada

Inspired by the beautiful combinations of plants... we will work to finish our neon tiger backgrounds with some line, color, and variety of plant creations.

Grade 5 will be coming to a close with this project.  Great work!

Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life...

A beautiful painting ... and we will focus on our spiral lines.. and 'drawing with paint'.

A mixed media project of printing and painting.

Klimt's inspiration is definitely found in our creations! 

First Projects of 2016-2017 K-3

K-
Eric Carle and the Very Hungry Caterpillar
Metamorphosis
Timelapse

A great read for some kinder firsts... painting, cutter, gluing, layering, you name it... we are doing it!

Kandinsky!

Wassily Kandinsky and his beautiful art inspired by music..

Shapes, layering, color mixing, stamping

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Keith Haring - my favorite!

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Grant Wood

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