Kinder Free Form Shapes: Leaf Paintings

Kinder students are learning a lot this month! We talked about free form shapes and looked around the art room for examples. Then we created texture rubbings with leaf texture plates and crayons, since leaves are excellent examples of free form shapes. The next class we talked about painting and how to use our brushes gently. Here are students using their brushes to add colors to their leaves with tempera paints.

Fifth Grade Perspective Drawings

Fifth Grade Art students are busy creating three dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Bedroom in Arles", students are creating an interior gallery space on their papers using several perspective techniques, including converging lines, overlapping, size, and shadows. Each student gets to decide what kind of art is hanging in his or her gallery. We are finishing this great project by adding color with color pencils.

First Grade Free Form Shapes

First Graders cut out their very own free form shapes, then traced it many times on a black piece of paper. Here they are tracing those lines with glue, which can be tricky! Next, we will add color inside the free form shapes, after the glue had had time to dry.

Kinder Line & Shape Collage

Kinder Art students are working hard on their line and shape collages. Today we added color and detail with markers.

Fourth Graders: Haunted Houses and Ghostly Stories

Fourth Graders are working on their new project - Haunted Houses! We are using cardboard and glue for the basic structure of the house...lots of glue! Check out how much we've built so far. We will be writing ghost stories in Language Arts, so hopefully these haunted houses will help spark our imaginations and inspire some descriptive adjectives.

Third Graders and Radial Balance

Third Graders are creating designs that have radial balance, or two or more lines of symmetry. After reviewing lines and shapes, students started drawing their designs in the center of their papers, slowly radiating outward with a variety of lines and different shapes. We are now adding color, and the designs are starting to resemble kaleidoscopes!

First and Second Graders review Geometric Shapes.

We are working hard on our Geometric Shape review. Students first drew six different geometric shapes: circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, ovals, and diamonds. We then added texture by rubbing different texture plates. Next, we cut out and arranged the shapes to build a house, after studying a few artworks depicting sturdy architecture. We are now adding color and details to the front and back yard as well as the sky.

Welcome Back!

The 2009-2010 School Year is off to a great start! All Zilker Elementary art students are studying shapes and lines, which are part of the Elements of Design, this first nine weeks.

2009 Zilker School-wide Student Art Show

Zilker School-wide Student Art Show

5th Grade Mexican Bark Paintings

What did we do? We looked at different Mexican bark paintings. Then we chose an animal that showed movement to draw, and surrounded the animal with different plants. We created a pattern border, and used bright, imaginative colors to paint our drawings. Our last step was to outline all of our shapes with a black marker.

What did we learn? We learned how to draw an animal that showed action or movement. We learned how to fill our page and use imaginary colors. We also learned how to use pattern and texture to add interest to our paintings.