First Grade artists are studying artist Paul Klee and creating their own architecture with geometric shapes. Students experimented with triangles, creating different shapes like rhombi, squares, trapezoids, and rectangles. Students then arranged their shapes to create buildings, and added architectural details like windows, bridges, doors, columns, as well as different types of textures with construction paper crayons.
Check out the finished works of art on Artsonia, our online student art museum:
https://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=994524
To start off a new school year in art Class, fourth and fifth grade artists are getting into their "artist state of mind" by reviewing the Elements of Art. Students arranged lines, shapes and colors in a repeated and planned way to create abstract patterns. These bright artworks will decorate the cover of their art sketchbooks, which we use all year long.
Check out all of the amazing designs at Artsonia, our online student museum!
5th Grade: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=985881
4th Grade: http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=985870
Third Grade Zilker Artists are learning all about Prehistoric Cave Art! We looked closely at several photos of the unbelievably beautiful cave paintings in Lascaux Cave, located in France. Students practiced drawing four different animals that were alive 50,000 years ago when the cave paintings were created, including bison, bears, deer, cows, and horses.
Students added implied texture by rubbing crayons on top of a texture plate to simulate the rough cave walls. Then we crinkled our papers to add actual or real texture too.
Last, students added prehistoric symbols around their animals with a charcoal stick, similar to what the ancient human used: a burnt stick.
Check out every one's finished cave art on Artsonia, our online student art museum, by cutting and pasting the following link into your browser window:
http://www.artsonia.com/museum/gallery.asp?project=990231
