Special thank you to this week's Art room volunteers, Mrs. Jacobson, Mrs. Wiedelman and Mrs. Palma for helping out in our class! It is always such a treat for students when parents are able to come in.
Kindergarten
Kindergarteners explored concepts of primary and secondary colors through the creation of their very own color wheels! Students mixed primary colors and found out the results for themselves. Then, students began their primary and secondary colored fish paintings. Great work, Kindergarten!
First Grade
First grade also explored primary and secondary colors through the creation of their "Glass Cities" architecture-related project! Inspired by Daniel Burnham, who brought the skyscraper to Chicago, students drew overlapping skyscrapers in primary colors. Where they overlapped, students colored in the secondary colors that would appear, given the two colors of the skyscrapers. Students created magnificent, colorful cities!
Second Grade
Second grade students who met this week completed fall colored leaf paintings after the completion of their pumpkin collages! See these colorful, textured collages hanging in the hallway stairs between first and second grades.
Third Grade
Third grade students created skyscraper drawings in pencil before going over them with "black glue"! This mixture of glue and black paint allows students a unique experience in painting, and one that yields a slight relief (elevated) result. Students will paint inside their skyscrapers and towers next week. Way to go, third grade!
Fourth Grade
Fourth graders continued to apply India ink to "batik" their crayon drawings of pumpkins. Students who had completed that process went on to create colorful collage backgrounds and leaf printings to emblazon their backgrounds, as well. Check back soon as these lovely projects will be completed shortly.
Fifth Grade
Students completed their analogous-colored city buildings in the styles of Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. We glued these buildings to blue butcher paper to create a lovely skyline that now hangs above the fifth grade lockers. Take a look next time you walk past rooms 301 and 303!
Sixth Grade
Sixth grade students learned about the "Art of Baseball," first reviewing their prior knowledge of how the game works and then by exploring such unique stadiums as those in Houston, St. Louis, Boston, and more! Students loved finding the train in a picture of the Astros stadium, as well as seeing how a home run in San Francisco will plop right into the San Francisco Bay! Then, students quickly and adeptly constructed their own stadiums, using cardboard, posterboard, markers and more. Students will use skills of speaking and listening to share about their creations during Language Arts.
Seventh Grade
Seventh grade, too, enjoyed the perennial fun of cardboard boxes, forming theirs into creative relief sculptures as well as free-standing construction of city skyscrapers to tie into their knowledge of architecture. Many students began the process of painting their sculptures in a dark color, over which they will lay vibrantly colored oil pastels.
Eighth Grade
Eighth grade learned of the concept of atmospheric perspective, or how perspective can be created through clarity and value, as well as line. Students looked at examples of nighttime cityscapes to see how the colors faded as they receded. Then, students sketched their own atmospheric perspective cities. Great work, eighth grade! Below, see some examples of finished collograph prints, as well.
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