Second Grade Pattern Animals

Second Grade artists are reviewing lines,shapes, and colors and how to arrange those three elements to create pattern, a principle of design.  Check out their great pattern animals that are in progress.

First Grade Lines

First Grade artists are creating line drawings.  We talked about all the different kinds of lines: straight, curved, zigzag, spiral, wavy, looping, dotted, broken, thick, and thin. We identified lines in the art room, and talked about where we could find lines outside or in our homes.  Then students started drawing all of the different lines to create some fabulous abstract line designs.

Welcome Back to School!

 Welcome back to the new school year 2012-2013!  In May I had Kinder and second grade artists work on these amazing abstract paintings so we would have a display ready to go at the beginning of the year. 

 Kinder students painted black shapes and lines first.  Second Grade students then added all the beautiful colors to the positive shapes and negative spaces.  I love these so much that I am thinking about creating some permanent murals to put up at Zilker!  

I hope every one's summer was fun and relaxing!  Zilker students are already hard at work with new creations in the art room, so stay tuned for more posts soon!

Zilker School-wide Student Art Show 2012

 First Grade Eric Carle Collages

 First Grade Eric Carle Seahorses

 Third Grade Weavings

 Second Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings

 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages

 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing

 Third Grade Weavings

 1st Grade Eric Carle Butterflies

 2nd Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings

 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages

 1st Grade O'Keeffe Paintings

 2nd Grade Wild Thing Watercolors

 Third Grade Weavings

 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing

 5th Grade Hundertwasser Collages

 2nd Grade Kandinsky Paper Weavings

 3rd Grade Dot Paintings

 4th Grade Radial Design Sewing

 2nd Grade Wild Thing Watercolors

 4th Grade Perspective Drawings

 Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings

 Kinder Picasso Guitars

Kinder Jasper Johns Paintings

5th Grade Mexican Bark Paintings

Fifth Grade Artists are studying a kind of Mexican Folk Art called Bark Painting and also known as Amate Painting. Mexican artists use the bark from a fig tree to create a natural paper that has great texture and a rich brown color. They then use bright paint to create vivid compositions that usually feature animals and plants. Zilker artists choose one animal, either imaginary or real, and had to draw the animal so that it shows movement. They added lots of plants and flowers around the animal, and framed it all with a repeating pattern that showed some overlapping. Here are students working hard on adding the fluorescent paint to their beautiful drawings.

4th Grade Radial Stitchings

Fourth Grade students have been working hard on their stitching designs. First students drew out a plan for their designs that included radial balance, which means that their designs have two lines of symmetry. Then, they started learning the different stitches: running stitch, straight stitch, cross-stitch, and satin stitch. Students also had to choose one of the following stitches to include in their designs: decorated running stitch, fancy running stitch, or long and short stitch. Using burlap cloth as our fabric is helpful since it is loosely woven and much easier to sew with the large diameter yarn. The designs are looking great - finished artwork will be on display at Zilker's annual School-wide Student Art Show on April 14th!