**Special thanks to Mrs. Marino and Mrs. Lamberghini for helping out in the art room this week! As always, your presence was much appreciated, and students loved your visits.**
Kindergarten
Kindergarteners explored a variety of materials from tissue paper to bubble wrap to cotton balls. After learning that all these materials have a different texture, students correctly inferred that texture describes how something feels to the touch. Then, students learned to create the appearance of texture through creating "Thumbprint Puppies" paintings! The first step in this process was a guided lesson in drawing the outline of the dog. During this stage, we reviewed that all of our artwork will and should look different, as each of us is a different individual. That is what makes it special. Sometimes a mistake will happen in art, but what is most important is how we learn from it and move forward. Then, we had fun painting with our fingertips!
First Grade
First graders painted their texture ornaments in Christmas colors and tints of Christmas colors, as well. We also put final details on our snowmen paintings, which will be on display at the Christmas show, along with other Christmas related artwork from all grades!
Second Grade
Second grade concluded their Christmas Tree collages with tissue paper this week! These lovely, cool-hued artworks will also be on display at the Christmas show. Great work, 2nd grade!
Third Grade
Third grade students worked on 2-D ornament drawings and decorations this week in addition to making snowflakes for our door using coffee filters. The coffee filters work particularly well for snowflakes as they are round to begin with and have a 3-D quality when finished. Take a look below at the work of the 3rd grade (left) and 5th and 6th grades (right) for our door decoration competition.
Next week, students will begin preparations for the found object letter sculpture (a favorite art project begun by Mrs. Love). Students may begin bringing in small objects (figurines, beads, coins, etc.) to be glued to craft letters of the students' initials. The letters will then be painted for a modern sculptural effect. Please enclose materials in a Zip-lock bag labeled with your child's name. A letter detailing this further will go home this week.
Fourth grade students also began a long-standing and well-loved project: the Pop Art Meal sculpture! Students learned that the "pop" in pop art is short for "popular." Some students recalled Andy Warhol as a favorite artist of this movement; we then learned about Wayne Thiebaud and his affinity for painted cakes and desserts. His thick application of the paint created the appearance of real frosting! Students sculpted various foods found at diners: burgers, cakes, cupcakes, etc. Next week, we will paint our creations!
Fifth Grade
Students learned about the design principles of variety and rhythm this week before observing Gustav Klimt's famous Tree of Life painting. Students recognized both these concepts in his painting before creating artworks of their own inspired by the Tree of Life! The fun of this project lay in part in our fun materials: metallic Sharpie, gold paint, paint pens, adhesive jewels, and black Sharpie. These trees are now on display in the front hall of the school, just in time for Christmas!
Seventh Grade
Seventh graders concluded their Geometric Tree paintings in warm and cool colors to be on display at the Christmas show this week. Then, students learned about the PART/TRAP method for creating tessellations. This method uses slides from geometry to rearrange parts of a shape so that it can fit into itself like a puzzle, over and over. This will coincide with our patterns unit. We looked at various tessellations by M.C. Escher, who deviated from this method in very creative ways! Many students in the class elected to insert a representational component to their tessellation. Students will continue to work on their tessellations next week.
Eighth Grade
Eighth graders finished embossing their tooling foil to create textured Christmas shapes and symbols this week. Then, students cut and pasted the foil to an implied texture background created with metallic Sharpie and black paper. Early finishers created chalk pastel renderings of the Northern Lights (as always with chalk pastels, the keys are to blend, blend, blend, and to layer, layer, layer!).
Have a wonderful weekend!
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