the art studio

Week of 14 April

Short week-  Friday is a teacher workday.

This week in the studio:

Kindergarten 

Recycled collage paintings. ~ Curriculum enrichment:  recycling, the earth.  Art history:  Romare Bearden collages.  Elements & Principles:  Color, shape, line, unity, variety, balance, rhythm.    Children will choose an image from a magazine and glue it onto paper.  They will then paint in the surrounding areas to create a scene.

1st grade

Pharoah Sarcophagus ~  Curriculum enrichment:  Ancient Egypt.  Art History:  Egyptian Art, hieroglyphics.  Elements & Principles:  Line, shape, color, pattern, repitition, balance, symmetry, texture.  Children will create a paper sarcophagus that when opened reveals a mummy wrapped up in yarn.

Ojo De Dios ~ Curriculum enrichment:  Mexico.  Art History:  Mexican crafts.  Elements & Principles:  Line, color, balance, pattern, repitition, texture.  Children will learn about the traditional crafts of Mexico and create a "God's Eye" or Ojo de Dios by wrapping yarn in a particular order around two sticks.

2nd grade

Painted Ladies ~ Curriculum enrichment: Life cycle of a butterfly. Art History: Rose windows, stained glass. Elements and Principles: Line, Shape, Balance, Pattern, Symmetry, Color, Texture, Space. Students will create a symmetrical butterfly by using Kirigami: the art of Japanese paper cutting. They will then create a tissue paper collage to put underneath their paper cut out creating a stained glass effect. Students will also paint their clay bugs.

3rd grade

Viking Runes & Pouch  ~(continued -see last week.) Students will complete their runes and use paint to give them an antiqued look. They will then stitch a bag to hold their stones out of tapestry like fabric.

4th grade

Mandalas ~ (continued -see last week.)  Students will continue to work on their mandalas and use color to create balance and pattern.

Dogwood still life ~ (continued -see last week.)  Students will complete their watercolor still life of dogwood branches and if there is time create another using black ink.

5th grade

Haiku straw paintings ~ Curriculum Enrichment:  Nature poetry.  Art History:  Japanese paintings.  Elements and principles:  Line, Shape, Balance, Space.  Students will write a haiku poem.  Students will then create an ink painting around the poem by dropping ink onto the paper and blowing through a straw moving the ink around the paper.

Week of April 7th

Don't forget to visit our BOOK FAIR this week in the media center!  Mrs. Black has worked very hard to create an amazing kid friendly environment that encourages children to read and develop a love for books!  Thank you Mrs. Black!!!

This week in the art studio:

Kindergarten:  Sunflower pastel paintings.  Curriculum enrichment:  Plants and flowers.  Art History:  Vincent Van Gogh.  Elements & Principles:  Line, shape, color, texture, pattern, value.  Children will work from a sunflower still life and create a pastel painting from direct observation using a guided drawing method.

1st Grade:  Cuneiform Name Tablets.  Curriculum enrichment:  Mesopotamia.  Art History:  Stela of the Code of Hammurabi.  Elements & Principles:  Line, shape, form, texture, pattern, repitition.  Students will create clay slabs and etch their names into them using cunieform script.

2nd Grade:  Clay Insects.  (two class sessions) Curriculum enrichment:  Insects, life cycles.  Art History:  Insects in Jewelry.  Elements & Principles:  Form, Color, Line, Pattern.  Students will create a fantasy insect using air dry clay.  All insects will have a head, thorax, abdomen, six legs and antennae, some may also have wings.  Students will name their insect.

3rd Grade:  Clay  Runes with Pouch (two class sessions).  Curriculum enrichment:  Viking studies.  Art History:  Smithsonian Viking Exhibit.  Elements & Principles:  Line, form, pattern.   Children will create small runes out of clay and etch a character into each.  They will then create a pouch of fabric to hold their runes using a whipstitch to close the edges.

4th Grade: 

Moss:  Still Life with Fruit (week two).  Curriculum enrichment:  n/a  Art History:  Cezanne.  Elements & Principles:  Line, Shape, Value, Form, Color, Composition.  Students will complete their lesson in value and color and create a pastel painting working from direct observation of in class still life. 

Wood:  Mandalas.  (week two)  Curriculum enrichment:  Mathematics- symmetry, radial balance.  Art History:  Gothic Rose Windows, Tibetan Mandalas.  Elements & Principles:  Line, Shape, Color, Pattern, Symmetry, Balance, Repitition.  Students will continue working on their mandalas, creating pattern with line and color in a radially balanced composition.

Allen:  Still Life with Dogwood Branches.  Curriculum enrichment:  NC Studies/ State Tree.  Art History:  Still Life paintings:  Van Gogh, Cezanne, etc.  Japanese screens.  Elements & Principles:  Compostition, Line, Shape, Color, Value, Texture, Form, Space, Balance, Unity, Emphasis.  Students will work from direct observation to create a still life of a dogwood branch. 

5th Grade:  Still Life with Fruit (week two).  Curriculum enrichment:  n/a  Art History:  Cezanne.  Elements & Principles:  Line, Shape, Value, Form, Color, Composition.  Students will complete their lesson in value and color and create a pastel painting working from direct observation of in class still life. 

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Week of 31 March

Welcome Back!

This week in the studio...

K:  Still life pictures as collage.  Students will be introduced to the still life as a type of picture and recreate one based on an in class still life.  They will cut shapes out of paper and overlap them to create space.

Grades 1, 3, and 5 will also be working on still lifes using oil pastels.  They will use value (light and dark)  to create form and be introduced to "tints and shades".

Grade 4:  Mandalas.  Reinforcing mathematical concepts of symmetry and radial balance, students will look at the history of mandalas, and rose windows and create their own radial design using pattern.