Art Club!!!!

Black History Month

 

 

 

Although we have celebrated the African American culture in other lessons, I love studying these two artists during this time of the year.  It is so important for our students to learn about other cultures and what better way to do that than learning through art?!  

Faith Ringgold is an African American artist and author.  We read her book, Tar Beach, in fourth grade and met the character, Cassie Louise Lightfoot.  Cassie dreamed of flying over New York and claiming structures and buildings as her own.  For this project, students are to think of a place they have never been, but would like to "fly over" and see for themselves.  They will draw this and then place squared paper around, re-creating a quilt look.  

To learn more about the artist Faith Ringgold, please click the link below:

 http://www.faithringgold.com/ringgold/default.htm

Jacob Lawrence was an artist from Harlem, New York.  He depicted every day life scenes of African Americans, as well as the historical struggles that African Americans have endured.  Lawrence liked to use the same colors and symbols throughout his different series.  His style is very expressive and abstract.  Fifth grade is going to use their imagination to think of an every day scene that they would like to depict.  They will be drawing African American figures for this project and will use similar colors throughout their work. 

To learn more about Jacob Lawrence, please click the link below:

http://www.biography.com/people/jacob-lawrence-9375562#!

Ted Harrison

 

Ted Harrison is a Canadian artist that loved making brightly colored landscapes.  In some of his work, Harrison often included an Inukshuk.  An Inukshuk was a rock marker that was used by natives to communicate.  Third grade used watercolors and wax-resist process to create their own landscape.  Well done Mrs. Maidment's class!!




To learn more about Ted Harrison please click the link below:
http://tedharrison.com/about/biography/
To learn more about Inukshuk's click here:
http://www.inukshukgallery.com/inukshuk.html

Valentine's Day Art and Display

Paul Klee Castles

Paul Klee is a very neat artist!  We took a look at his castles and examined all the shapes and colors that he used to create his work.  Fifth grade used watercolors to create their own architecture.  They turned out beautiful!

Let's Paint!!!

Sometimes we just need to get messy and paint!!!  We took a look at a few tropical fish and then I showed the students how to use simple shapes to create fish.  I enjoyed this project!

Primary and Secondary Clowns!!

 

Clowns are funny and colorful--just what we need during these cold, gray months!  Second grade learned about the three primary colors (red, blue and yellow) and the three secondary colors (purple, orange, and green) and used shapes to create a very unique clown!!!  These make me smile every day I walk into the elementary building:)

Sixth Grade Collagraphs

 

Collagraphs are a form of printmaking and consists of assembling different materials together.  The students had a variety of items to choose from for this project.  The overall theme was, "Winter."  I loved how these turned out.  The students also wrote a project reflection and I realized that a lot of the kids did not like how the print turned out different from the original collagraph.  Printmaking is tricky and does not show all of the details.  Overall, I believe they enjoyed the process.

Abstract Line Sculptures

Third grade learned about the art element, line.  We used straws covered with tissue paper to create a unique line sculpture.  Nice work third grade!!

Art Nouveau Mirrors

 

For this project we took a look at the art style, Art Nouveau.   Art Nouveau involved swirling lines, mythical creatures, and gold details.  The students created their own design and added gold touches with metallic paper.  They turned out amazing!  Great job fourth grade!

To learn more about Art Nouveau, please click the link below:

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-art-nouveau.htm

3D Projects

We finished these projects in December, but I never got the chance to post them!  The kids always amaze me with their work.  The airplane was a project a student came up with and the gingerbread houses were made from old shoe boxes!!  

Moroccan Flag

Moroccan Tile Project

What a cool project!!!  One of our fifth grade students has family from Morocco and her mom lend us some neat artifacts for us to look at.  We learned that Morocco architect has beautiful tile work and so each student created their very own, unique design.  We discussed symmetry and color--the students did an amazing job!!!