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.

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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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Welcome to the 2016-2017 School Year!

Welcome Back Bulldogs!

We are going to jump right in.

Grade 5 - 

Neon Tiger Painting.

Working right into our drawing and painting adventure!

Drawing in a step by step and then advancing to color mixing through the use of neon paints!

Inspired by....

Blog HERE

Grade 4 - 

Bulldog Prep Work

Collaborative Mural - 1. Drawing Practice.  2. Drawing and then COLOR.

Grades 2 & 3

Collaborative Circle Painting Murals

Book: the dot (read aloud)

(idea)

Creativity takes Courage - so lets share in our first art experience of the year together.

Paint, Color, and Creating together.

Grade K & 1

Introduction to the Art Room and Working With TooLs!

Pencils, Crayons, Tracers.

Roll the big paper out and get going with the different transitions in the art room.  Seats, table captains, supply table, how to use the supplies, and we will end with a read.