Students of all grade levels are currently working on 3-D artworks. Some of the materials we have been exploring are Model Magic air dry clay, Paper Mache, and Plaster Craft. Take a peek at our display case in the school lobby. The students are very excited and proud to show of their finished works. A mix of 2-D works are also in the background. Students in 4th grade are working on sculptures of art supplies. They had the choice of making one of the following:
The armature, the inner frame or skeleton that helps support a sculpture, was made out of a toilet paper roll, a paper towel roll, and/or a paper cone. On the outside we covered and shaped the form with Plast'r Craft, fabric embedded with Plaster of Paris. Dipping the fabric into water activates the plaster. You have to work quickly and smooth out the Plast'r Craft fabric before it hardens. Students in 5th grade are working on a sculpture project. The inspiration came from artist Robert Indiana, who has several different versions of a Love sculpture that are found all over the world. The first one he created was located at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. A few other locations include New York City, JFK plaza in Philadelphia, the Civic Center in Scottsdale Arizona, the Langen Foundation in Germany, Spain, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Content Objectives: I can create a 3-D paper mache letter. I can explain how to paper-mache a 3D Letter. I can explain & identify the differences between 2-D and 3-D artworks. Vocabulary: Armature, 3-Demensional, Paper-Mache, Form Grades K-6This month all students in grades K-6 have been drawing, painting, and creating colors. Color theory is very complex and involves how we organize, arrange, and mix colors. To organize colors and show their relationship to one another, we must learn how to use a color wheel. A color wheel is a useful tool that was initially developed by the famous scientist Sir Isaac Newton. There are numerous variations of a color wheel. This is a list of art projects that were intentionally selected and designed to build upon students prior knowledge each year. Some teacher examples and websites are also included for your reference. Grade 1 - Primary Color Hands & Piet Mondrian Study Grade 2 - ROYGBIV Birds Grade 3 - Beehive in Primary, Intermediate, & Warm/Cool colors Grade 4 - Op Art, Color Wheel Grade 5 - Eye of Color, Color Wheel Grade 6 - Mandala, Color Wheel Grade 6, (Falcons)Last year as I was researching and trying to come up with ideas for our Dia de los Muertos oferenda, I came across the idea of a milk jug skeleton. Perhaps you have seen this inspiring, but clever skeleton sculpture used for Halloween as a DIY project. My mind instantly thought of how I could create a deep and meaningful connection to Science and History, for the Hispanic cultural traditions of calaveras and calacas (skulls & skeletons) demonstrate rich symbolism if we know the story and customs behind these works. Time was limited and the display piece was ambitious, but the piece I created was an instant hit. In fact, my 6th graders fell in love with it so much that they requested to do this as their class art project this year! In the next few weeks, the Falcons are grouped together to collaborate, problem solve, and design their own personal calaveras milk jug sculptures. The snapshots you see below are pieces the students have presently started and are working on. Can't wait to see what the students accomplish with their team work! Grades K-6 "With My Own Two Hands" is a song written in 2003 and sung by Ben Harper. He later collaborated with artist Jack Johnson and released another version featured on the Curious George film soundtrack. The lyrics are about how changes in the world come about when a single person takes action. I played this song for students in class. Then asked students to think about how they could take action. We created a hand that expressed how we individually could make a difference or do a kind act. Our sentence starter was the following...."I can help make the world a better place by..." If you look at the palm of the hand, you can see each child's individual ideas. Illustrations of this idea are also within the hand. Other peaceful and loving symbols could be added. Followed by their name in bubble letters. Grades K-6EQ: How can Art help make the world a more peaceful or better place? Today the 6th grade Falcons helped set up the public art display known as Pinwheels for Peace. This project occurs each year officially on September 21, which is International Day of Peace. This is a global peace initiative to spread world peace. So be on the lookout! Pinwheels may be in your local community along the roadside, in school yards, in parks, pinwheels everywhere! Check out our display in the grass as you drive by or walk by the front entrance of the school. Art speaks and is able to reach all kinds of people. We are starting off the school year on two collaborative art projects that promote peace - Pinwheels for Peace and a My Two Hands bulletin board. The essential question I asked students to consider was the following. EQ: How can Art help make the world a more peaceful or better place? The purpose and ideas behind each art project will thoughtfully include the community and/or encourage collaboration within our school. We will also be exploring and analyzing artists and how their works of art were used to communicate and spread world peace. Artists that we may discuss in class could include: 1) Pablo Picasso, Guernica 2) Norman Rockwell, We the Peoples & Golden Rule 3) My Two Hands (song) written by Ben Harper & collaboration with Jack Johnson Look for the students personalized works of art to be exhibited in the near future. Norman Rockwell's
United Nations Drawing - We the Peoples Henri Matisse was a French artist, best known for his paintings and his paper cut out collages. Like all great artists, Matisse studied and respected different artists and other cultures. Yet he was determined to do something different and form his own style. In the later years of his life, he became sick with cancer and was confined most times to his wheelchair. With the help from assistants who would paint & hang up paper, he began creating paper cut outs. The assistants would paint as well as hang up the paper, but Matisse would cut and compose the works. He called this new technique, painting with scissors. The biggest pieces were murals or large scale works that spread across an entire wall or room. Grade 2 Students are creating a paper collage of a human figure using organic & geometric shapes in the style of Matisse. They learned about Matisse through a short children's story book called Matisse the King of Color by Laurence Anholt. We also took a virtual field trip / museum tour of the Tate Modern display on Henri Matisse called Cut-Outs. *Note: This work is in progress. The organic shapes & other final touches will be added soon. I'll keep you posted and add the photographs when the work is complete. Learning objectives: I can identify & explain the difference between organic / geometric shapes. I can create a collage in the style of Henri Matisse. I can observe & draw a model, human figure in different poses. EQ: What inspires artists & their artwork? What tools, materials, and choices did the artist use in the artwork? Students are learning the colors of the rainbow, which is nature's tool to help us with remembering the color wheel and how to mix colors. We are practicing painting the colors of the rainbow in order with the following projects. Rainbow Line Collage - Grade K Essential Question: What types of lines are used in art? To make our paper collage, we started by painting stripes of ROY G. BIV. Then we drew different types of lines on the back of the paper. Piece by piece each line was cut apart and glued back together like a puzzle on a black background paper. We made sure to leave a finger space to show what types of line that we made in between each piece. ROY G. BIV Birds - Grade 1 Essential Question: What inspires artists artwork? To create these cartoon like characters, artists frequently have to study subjects from real life. These birds are no different. Where do artists get their ideas? Sometimes things are from real life and some things come from our imagination. We compared and contrasted the inspiration and photographs of real birds noticing how different features are combined to create artworks. One such example for discussion was Angry Birds. The popular characters are imagined but artist are inspired by real birds and emphasize and choose what parts of the birds they like best to create these funny characters with human traits. Our depiction shows the birds on a telephone wire and the birds had to be painted with watercolors in ROY G. BIV color order. Indigo, not such a common color was made by mixing blue & purple. |
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