3rd graders will creating their own robot! They will draw their robot with only a black sharpie marker, no pencil! We will be learning about how to show value by cross-hatching. Cross-hatching is a technique used to create shading effects by drawing closely spaced parallel lines. Value refers to the dark and light found in art. The 3rd graders will be experimenting to see if they can cross-hatch and make their robot have many values or shades of gray/black.
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I've always been a fan of Andy Warhol and Pop Art so I thought I'd see if I can get the 5th graders excited as well. Simply put, Pop Art is about taking everyday objects and turning them into art. Andy Warhol is a very famous Pop Artist who would uses Rhythm and Arbitrary color in some of his most famous artwork. Rhythm is repeating shapes, colors and objects over and over. Arbitrary colors are colors that you wouldn't see in the real object. Each student will draw an everyday object on paper and then trace onto foam board. Then students will roll ink onto their foam and stamp them onto white paper. They will do this 4 times with 4 colors. I've never done this lesson before but I am very excited about it because it's fun, eye-catching and the 4th graders are going to learn a lot! We start off the lesson by learning about the artist Keith Haring, a street artist from the East Coast. Keith Haring's artwork was greatly influenced by graffiti and Pop Art. Graffiti is any artwork that is produced outside on the public streets. Pop art is an art movement about making art using everyday objects like soup cans, hamburgers and the American flag. We will be making our own simple human figure. These figures need to show Rhythm and Movement. They can show rhythm and movement by the poses they are in and the lines that shoot out of them, like a burst. Each figure will be painted using one color and outlined in black, keeping it simple but striking! The 3rd graders newest project is all about Hot Air Balloons! I've always thought hot air balloons were the coolest, with all those colors and patterns they look so beautiful in the sky. For this lesson the 3rd grade will be learning how to draw hot air balloons. The 3rd grade will also be using knowledge that they've learned from past art projects. They will be decorating and coloring their balloons with shapes and lines like they did in The Dot. Drawing a smaller balloon in the distance and show space like when they drew trees in their warm/cool landscapes. And they will be drawing their baskets in 2-Dimensional Forms like their bowls from Gambia. When they finish coloring their bowls the students will cut them out and then sponge paint clouds onto a new blue piece of paper. Then the students will glue their balloons down and draw lines for the rope. The 3rd graders are looking at the country, The Gambia, a small country on the west coast in Africa. The 3rd graders are making their own version of the bowls by learning how to draw their bowls so they look 2-Dimensional by drawing them in a way that show the front of the bowl as well as the inside of the bowl. Once their bowl are drawn they can decorate them with pattern using Neutral Colors. A neutral color is a color that doesn't usually show up on the color wheel. Neutral colors or Earth Tones are usually browns and grays, colors you might see in rocks, sand, dirt and clay. I found this lesson on the blog, Art on the Move and thought it would be great for the 5th grade. The 5th grade will be looking at the artist, Aaron Meshon and the maps he create about people and places. The maps they are creating are completely about them and what they love. The can make up whatever they feel like: buildings, streets, parks and signs. Somethings that they'll need is a name for their map that relates to their own name and a small drawing of themselves. Elements of Design or they are also called the Elements of Art are a very important part when making art. This video is fantastic at explaining and seeing the elements. The elements of design art: Line, Shape, Form, Space, Color, Value and Texture. *** I'm still looking for a good video about the Principles of Art: Balance, Emphasis, Movement, Pattern, Rhythm, Contrast and Unity.
Next week the 4th grade will be starting to create their own Animal Moasics. We will be looking at a variety of mosaic examples specifically the artist, Winold Reiss and his mosaic murals. The students will be selecting their animal of choice keeping in mind that they will have their mosaic on a piece of black paper. (animals with brighter colors work better) We will cutting out small pieces of color using magazine paper. What's so cool about using magazine paper is that the students will end up with multiple shades of one color. Another thing that student's will discover that some paper will have words or texture on them and that's okay, it actually will make their animal more interesting. As a parent, the artwork that your student will bring home will be endless and the art soon piles up with nowhere to go. I was looking on the blog, Vivid Layers and there were several great ways to display and show off your child's artwork. One easy and non messy way is making a book. Using walgreens.com or shutterfly.com are great websites to use when you take photos of your child's art. It might take a little while but the end product is worth it! You can also use your child's art to decorate your house. Framing and matting the art will give it a more professional feel. Going to the dollar store and purchasing frames is an inexpensive way to create this collage display. Another way to find cheap frames is heading out to garage sales. I love going to garage sales in the summer and seeing all those perfectly good frames for so cheap! Remind yourself that when your child sees you interested in their artwork they will be more likely to make art at home which will improve their creativity and imagination as well as giving them a break from the TV and video games! The easiest way for you and your child to display their artwork is string up their art using clothes pins. Some other ideas are: 1. Make an art box - where their artwork can be stored to look at later in life 2. Use a bulletin board. 3. Take photos of your child's art and frame the photos! Matryohska Dolls or Nesting Dolls are a set of Russian wooden dolls decreasing in size that can be placed inside of each other. The 3rd graders will be making 4 dolls of their own. Their dolls will be made out of paper, glued into an upright position and will be able to fit inside of each other. The nesting dolls they are making must look like they are apart of a set, like all sports players or all animals. They will color their dolls using crayons, colored pencils or markers. If the students finish early they will have the option of adding more dolls to their set, one bigger and one smaller doll. I will be entering Becker Intermediate students in an art contest created by the Celebrating Art website. I wish every student could have their artwork entered but there isn't enough time, so I will be selecting students who have been Artists Of The Week to be entered. I will upload a photo of their artwork and, if selected by the judges, their art will be published in a book that contains photos of all the art. If the student's art is published they will have the chance to also be a contest winner. The winners will receive a $25 check and a free copy of the art book! If you would like to enter in your own art on your own time (with the help of your parents!), click here, this link will take you right to the student registration page on the celebrating art website. The pictures to the left are some paintings that I have created in the past 2 years and now are on display at a store in the Minneapolis area called Paper Hat. Come check them out! The next project for the 3rd grade will be learning about an artist named, Wolf Kahn. Wolf Kahn is a German artist who paints landscapes in unrealistic colors. 3rd graders will use either warm or cool colors for their landscapes. Their trees and ground will be drawn in crayon and then we will paint over our entire paper with watercolors, using either warm or cool colors, whatever you have chosen. Warm Colors: Red, Orange and Yellow Cool Colors: Green, Blue and Purple Here is a logo that was created by all of the art teachers at the Becker Schools and was designed by Ms. Lessard! You will be seeing this logo in the schools and postcards that will be sent home for certain art lessons.
The 5th grade will begin learning about Japan and Koi Fish. We will learn step-by-step how to make Koi Fish from the Aerial View. 5th graders will be reviewing what warm and cool colors are by using warm colors for the fish and cool colors for the water. For the water part we will sprinkle salt on the wet paint and watch the salt collect the paint leaving a speckled design. It's a really cool, simple effect! I've been using today to find great art lessons and I was looking on Artolazzi Blog and found this awesome video about working as a group, painting at the same time to make circles and lines. No thinking, just painting! The group of people in the video below are apart of a community class lead by artist/activist Nobuko Yamamoto and Hiep Nguyen. This was a group of 30 people with 30 different faiths coming together to make ONE single art piece. The 4th graders will start to learn about Russian Architecture very soon so I thought I would post this link of a 360º view of St. Basil's Cathedral and the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. We spend some time learning about Onion Domes and how to make them. This project is one of my favorites and I think the students like it too! The first day students will color their entire paper with oil pastels, making sure they are coloring in every white spot. The students will then paint over their color with black paint. The next art time students will learn how to make their own Onion Dome towers using a step-by-step sheet that they are each given for help. They will use repeating pattern to make each of their Onion Domes unique. Today being the first day of school I didn't have any students so while sitting alone in my classroom, staring at my lessons, going over and over them, I realized I wanted to do something different with my 5th graders. We will still be making collages but our collages will be about creating people in motion using black cut-outs like the artist, Henri Matisse. We'll create a background of colorful shapes and then cut out ovals to create human forms. I got this idea from one of my favorite blogs, Deep Space Sparkle. The difference between the example from Deep Space Sparkle is their forms have clothes, ours will just be the silhouette of the human. The human silhouettes will be the emphasis of our art. Emphasis means the main part of the piece of art, the focal point. I thought this project sounded fun and interesting, the kids will get to be creative with their compositions. This may seem a little easy for 4th graders to do but I like to refresh their memory since in 4th grade we do more mixing of colors. The 4th grade will be making their own color wheel using only Primary Colors: Red, Yellow and Blue. It's amazing to watch kids realize that 2 colors make another! This is only a one day project so we move on to more exciting things soon! I like to start the year talking with the 3rd graders about how to be artists even if they don't feel like one. The first project we'll read the book, The Dot, which is about a girl who thinks she can't be an artist. We also read another book called Beautiful Oops. Beautiful Oops is about turning mistakes into art. Below is a video of the author of Beautiful Oops, creating his own "Oops" art. The 3rd grade will make their own artwork of dots and lines, starting with Sharpie Marker, NO PENCIL! That way they learn how to makes mistakes and turn them into something beautiful. After we finish outlining the shapes and lines, we'll paint them with tempera cakes. |
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I'm in my 6th year teaching art in Becker, MN. Time has really flown by! Wowza! Archives
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