Kindergarten
Having completed their "purple crayon dots," students in Kindergarten learned about different kinds of lines, including dotted lines, broken lines and even continuous lines, in addition to the more familiar wavy lines, straight lines and zig-zag lines. Students identified these types of lines in a PowerPoint slideshow before sharing in a read aloud from This Is the Sun ... Or Is It?. This story engaged students in using their imagination as well as pointing out the types of lines the author used to transform ordinary objects into something different. We practiced drawing different types of lines on graphic organizers, and then we jumped right in to making our oil pastel lines! Next week, when we paint over the oil pastel in watercolor, the pastel will resist the paint; and the lines will seemingly pop off the page!
First Grade
First grade is also starting the year with the study of line, the very first of our first elements of art to be examined. Using yarn and glue, students created a variety of types of lines in different colors. We will apply paint to these lovely compositions next week!
Second Grade
Second grade took a different perspective on line: looking at the city skyline! We saw that if you trace the skyline of a city photo, and then remove the photo, what is left is a line that takes a most unusual path! We drew our own city skylines, and then we filled in the individual buildings making up our skyline with many varieties of lines using crayon. Next week, we will cut out the buildings, which were drawn on white paper, and paste them to black construction paper. This creates the effect of the buildings really seeming to emerge off the page, while the dark background appears to recede into the distance. Great work, 2nd Grade!
Third Grade
Third grade had their very first class of the school year this Monday. Students learned classroom procedures before studying line, like their other classmates at ICSJ. We drew different lines on small paper plates in markers to express our individuality alongside the other colorful dots that now wind around the art room! Next week, we begin some serious fun with shadow line contour drawing.
Fourth Grade
Fourth grade created three-dimensional dots by having table groups collaborate to make two large circles. These large circles, which students decorated, were stapled almost entirely together. Then, students stuffed them with crumpled newpaper pages until they made fluffy dots! We completed the stapling and moved them around the room.
Fifth Grade
Fifth grade was very receptive to the concept that anyone can draw anything if only he or she looks carefully enough! We learned tools at our disposal in this process, such as the viewfinder to set up/frame our compositions. We even learned to close one eye as we look through the viewfinder, in order to flatten our subject like our paper plane. Students practiced sketching in their new sketchbooks various organic objects, such as pine cones, leaves and seashells. This activity will segue into next week's large-scale study of the organic contour lines of such objects.
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Grades
Middle schoolers also practiced drawing what they see, though their end goals will be different. Sixth grade will be drawing contour line still life compositions. They will eventually "Zentangle" the backgrounds of these drawings and color their subjects bright colors to pop off the page. Seventh grade will apply skills of drawing what they see to capture people in motion through the use of gesture drawing. And eighth grade will take perhaps the biggest challenge of all: drawing what they see -- but not seeing the paper -- in a series of blind contour drawings next week!
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