Fourth and Fifth Grade students are working hard on their Graphic Designs, which will decorate the front cover of their sketchbooks. For this project, students are reviewing the art elements line and shape. Students are using shape and line in various ways: to show patterns, texture, or to show their individual interests. Throughout the year, we will be using the sketchbooks to work and write about art. Check out some of their work in progress!
Kinder students are learning about geometric shapes in art class. We concentrated on five geometric shapes: circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and ovals. We also practiced coloring inside of the geometric shapes and not leaving any peek-a-boo spots. Here are some kinder students hard at work on their geometric shapes.
Second Grade artists are reviewing lines, shapes, and patterns! Each student chose to draw a cat, a dog, or a bird. After adding details like eyes, ears, or beaks, students filled in their animals with imaginary patterns. All students put on their creative thinking caps and really tried to create some outstanding line and shape patterns. Stay tuned to see how we will add color to our animals.
First Grade artists are hard at work reviewing their lines and shapes. This day in art class, instead of drawing, we tried printing lines, and then created shapes with those lines. After practicing our lines and shapes, we printed a picture.
Thanks to last year's second grade artists, we have a nice big bulletin board full of Wild Things to welcome us back to school this year! This 2011-2012 school year is full of fun things for our Zilker panthers to explore and discover. Check out all the different textures students created on their wild things, and stay tuned for some amazing art from all grades this year!
Fourth Grade students are studying Value and Texture. We created four value scales using different shading techniques: blending, hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling. We then drew an ordinary pencil using contour line. Students had to choose a shading technique to help create the illusion of depth in their pencil drawings. Students also studied the direction of light, and added a shadow to further show three-dimensional depth in their two-dimensional drawing.
Third grade students are studying the artist Pablo Picasso and his style of art called Cubism. We looked at many of Picasso's Cubist portraits of people, and also saw how he influenced the Pop artist Andy Warhol. We then drew faces and make them have both frontal views and side views at the same time. We used lines to further "break" our drawings down into simple shapes, and here students are painting the shapes with bright colors.
Second Grade students are hard at work on their Native American Shields. Each student choose a symbol to represent his or her personality. We looked at many different kinds of symbols found in petroglyphs and pictographs created by many different tribes of Native Americans all over the Southwest United States. Then each student used four symbols to tell a story about an adventure she or he had in nature. Last, we added four smaller symbols to share our interests, and drew a pattern around the edge of the shield. Here, students are painting their symbols and patterns. Our last step will be to add beads and feathers.
Jasper Johns is the artist Kinder students are studying. We looked at his number and alphabet paintings closely, and talked about all the places that we see numbers and letters everyday: street signs, books, billboards, computers, classrooms, inside and outside cars, and in our homes. Students then choose numbers or letters to put in their own drawings. We practiced painting four different colors inside each letter or number box, then we used oil pastels and tempera paint for our final designs. The paintings are amazing and will be displayed in this year's School-wide Art Show in April!
Fifth grade students are studying Mexican Bark Paintings. Students had to choose an animal and depict that animal in motion. After looking at original Bark Paintings by Mexican artists, we noticed that the space around the animals were filled with plants and flowers, and that the colors used were arbitrary, or imaginary colors. Some students chose actual animals, and others chose fantastical animals. Last, students had to create a pattern border around their animal scene. Here are students adding the bright, imaginary colors to their drawings.
