the art studio

In, Out, Over, Under - 5th

The fifth grade did an exercise in using the overlapping technique to create the illusion of space in a two dimensional work...here are a few: see the fifth grade gallery for more examples.

Farm City Finalists

The fourth grade participated in a county wide contest where they were asked to design a poster that shows why the farm and the city need each other. Ten finalists were chosen from our school using a rubric by a panel of judges (Mr. & Mrs. Maimone, Jan Tucker, Andy Francis) and the ten winners from our school (below) went on to the county finals. Out of our ten, one was chosen as a finalist in the contest, it is the first one pictured below.
Thank you judges!

Our school representative in the county finals:

Our school finalists:

Congratulations to all of our winners! Thank you all for participating~
Well done!

More from Grade 2

After the sunny line designs we continued with weather by observing clouds and creating cotton collage to represent cirrus, cumulus and stratus clouds...we also talked about "nimbus" clouds being rainclouds. They learned a lot.

Next to reinforce their unit on Ancient Greece, we studied the various shapes and functions of grecian vessels. Students chose a design they liked and drew it on paper. They then filled it in with red and orange oil pastels. Next, a layer of thick black tempera was applied and left to dry. The next class students were asked to draw a picture that told a myth by scratching into the surface. They also had to create a "band" of pattern at both the top and bottom of the vessel before painting in the background.
The results were fabulous and they really enjoyed the process.

Week Thirteen

This week in the studio:

Kindergarten will learn a little about the Native American "talking stick" and create one of their own with mixed media.

First Graders will continue their lesson in portraits using color to express emotion to create a "feeling blue" portrait.

Second Grade will continue working on their comedy/tragedy masks depicting an Ancient Greek mythological character or creature.

Third Grade will continue to work on their organic color wheels.

Fourth Grade will work on their bottles in color wheel order.

Fifth Grade TBA

First Grade Monsters

A peek at our first grade "monsters"... 

smARTboard

I have twice written a research grant to the SMARTBOARD foundation to try to get one for our art program.  If you have never seen one of these, well, let me tell you that they are an invaluable tool to teachers.  Tricky part is that they cost ten thousand dollars.  The Forum asked us to prioritize our wishes for our rooms and the SmartBoard is mine.  I cannot tell you what an amazing piece of equipment this is.  It is a large interactive whiteboard that has all the capacity of a powerpoint PLUS enables you to capture anything off of the web (yes, it is linked with the computer) and put it into a slideshow form.  This means art from all over the globe can be right here in our classroom- from the Met, National Gallery, Louvre...any piece of art can be here in Rutherford County for our kids to see and learn about.  In addition, it allows you to "write" on it with special pens which is great for things such as portrait lessons or drawing lessons.  I can't say enough about it.  Maybe there is someone out there who makes a large donation to a worthy cause every year and they will stumble upon our humble art blog and gift us with a SmartBoard...meanwhile I am trying to figure out what I can do to get my hands on one....it would be a blessing for our program and a gift to all of our students.  The entire art world at our fingertips. 

http://smarttech.com/

Week 12

Here we are in November.
The Fall Festival was a sheer delight for everyone. Thanks to the Forum and everyone for their hard work and for coming out to support us.

This week in the studio:

Kindergarten: aligning with the K unit on animals, their basic needs and habitats we will be creating a mixed media collage of animals.

First Grade: Feeling Blue/Hot Headed. Students will use line and color expressively to create both angry and sad portraits.

Grade 2: Students will learn about the history of Greek Theatre and create comedy and tragedy masks.

Grade 3: Organic color wheels

Grade 4: Bottle drawing color wheels

Grade 5: Color wheel test (last week test cancelled due to festivities and holidays)

2nd Grade Artwork

Being in the second grade is fun. You are not really a "baby" anymore... they are an incredible group of kids! TJCG has loads of talent in every grade!!!

Fabulous Sunny Line Designs (gorgeous patterns and warm colors!!!) See Gallery for more work-

Art from Grade 1

The last few weeks for first grade has been lots of fun: we created animal masks, line drawings (curvy, straight and zig zag-oh my!!!), and a collage to represent the layers of the earth... see gallery"1" for more artwork!

K Gallery update

The last few weeks of Kindergarten were filled with fun as we reinforced color theory and line. We also introduced printmaking (apple prints). Here's a looky.

That's: apple prints, line designs (line direction: vertical, horizontal, diagonal), handprint color wheels (mixing the colors and making handprints and collaging them into color wheel order)- ask your child to sing the rainbow song!!!

Please check out the K gallery to the left for additional images.

Apple Prints

Line Designs

Handprint Color Wheels (on display in main office)

(to the tune of Row Your Boat) Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Vi-o-let First the Rain and then the Sun A Rainbow's what you get....