Kindergarten Art

There’s really something fishy about this! The Kindergarten has started an overlapping underwater scene. After a short fish anatomy lesson they drew a fish (or two, or three), and  added a habitat by drawing objects such as overlapping seaweed, air bubbles, starfish, mermaids, sand dollars, seahorses, sunken ships, coral, and a sandy ocean floor.  After coloring these objects with very waxy crayons they painted over their entire pictures with liquid watercolor. Everyone thought it magical as the crayons resisted the paint. Large rock salt crystals were sprinkled on the wet picture to create a bubbly effect (almost as fun as glitter!). 

2nd Grade Art

An analogous color scheme helps give unity to the Second Graders’ complex fish drawings. After drawing an underwater scene that must include at least three fish and/or underwater animals, three different types of plants, and the use of overlapping for perspective, students choose an analogous color scheme to complete the project. After choosing a primary color as their starting point, students can use that color and all other colors up to, but not including, the other two primaries. Observing the color wheel assists students when choosing which colors are available for use in their chosen color scheme. Although an analogous color scheme usually only includes three or four colors (analogous colors have at least one color in common, e.g. students could use the colors of blue, green because it is made with blue and yellow, and purple because it is made with blue and red, the common color being blue) we use all marker colors available that have a common color. 

3rd Grade Art

The Third Grade just finished creating portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. After looking at self-portraits by Frida we compared them to the decorative Frida portraits by Heather Galler. Upon completion of their portraits, students added backgrounds in the style of either Kahlo or Galler. Color was added with water soluble oil pastels. Absolutely fantastic!!!  

1st Grade Art

The 1^st Grade observed the wonderful landscapes of Heather Galler before beginning their own paintings. Galler uses simple shapes, bright colors and patterns, patterns, patterns. We tried our own versions of these pictures using a new art supply, PlayColor paint sticks. Like its name, the product is paint in stick form similar to a large tube of lipstick. Students drew a farm landscape, cityscape, or ocean view picture with sharpie and added color with the paint sticks. They absolutely loved the ease of the paint sticks—no brush, no wash, no fuss… The paints worked wonderfully. We filled in our patterns with colored permanent markers. The color of the first layer of paint had to be chosen carefully so that the patterns would stand out. They turned out beautifully!