Second Grade Art

The Second Graders have recently finished a Days of the Dead skeleton picture. The Days of the Dead is a Hispanic holiday celebrated on the 1^st and 2^nddays of November. It is a celebration of the life of deceased loved ones. Students  cut out skeletons, put them in an action pose, created clothing if needed, and placed them in an environment that shows some of the things that the deceased person loved (not a scary Halloween type of picture). The addition of glitter always makes this artwork very festive! We didn't finish these in time to display on the bulletin boards, but be looking forward to seeing these at the April Art Fair.

After discussing the difference between actual texture and visual texture we started oil pastel drawings of owls. We'll soon have a flock of feathery owls. Feather patterns were created mixing only three colors plus black and white. Radial feather patterns “radiate” from an eye center, long feathers hang in  repeated patterns down the wings, and small feather tufts dot the breast. These should be finished and displayed soon after Thanksgiving break.

3rd Grade Art

The third grade has completed three projects since the April art show. First they created trees in the style of TR Mack. Mack said he starts his paintings without a plan, letting his pictures develop as he paints. It is an unusual approach but his pictures are beautiful as are the third grade pictures.
 Their next picture was a stained glass scratch paper picture. After sketching a picture of their choice, transferring it with white transfer paper to the black scratch paper, and getting a wooden stylus, they began scraping black paint off, revealing a transparent, colorful image--perfect to display on a bedroom window.
The final picture for the year was an oil pastel lion portrait. After sketching their lion heads with black and white oil pastels, students finished them adding two or three other colors, blending the  colors to create shading and highlights.  A textured mane created the crowning touch for this king of the jungle.

Third Grade Art

3^rd Grade peacocks emphasize feathery textures and repeated color patterns.  These oil pastel pictures were created in less than two hours time. Colors were blended on the peacocks’ chests, highlighting the curved forms of the bodies. Before drawing the tail feathers, a variety of colors of chalk pastels were added to the backgrounds adding unity to the tail shape.  

Kindergarten Art

                                 

 Kindergarteners have just finished a paper weaving using purple and blue weft strips. They turned their weavings into an underwater environment filled with cut paper fish and seaweed. Torn paper sand was layered across the ocean bottom and real sand added texture to the picture.

First Grade Art

The first grade finished their Koala pictures the week after their Australian Unit was completed. Those snow days really throw our schedule off. They created multimedia pictures with permanent markers, water soluble markers, and, felt and construction papers. Their pictures are delightful and will be on display next month at the K-8 Art Fair. Currently they are working on clown portraits. We mapped the clown faces drawing the eyes, nose, and mouth in the correct size and place before adding the "make up".