Kinder painted prints

2nd nature prints

Day 1 demo and printing.

Day2 pattern printing.

3rd OKeefe landscapes

Day 1 introducing OKeefe style landscapes.
Mixing tints and shades for background base.

4th trees capes

Day1.
Watching and listening to nature and environments.
Creating backgrounds with a wind- like technique.
Breaking down vocabulary.


Day 1 for technique # 2
Watercolor backgrounds.

4th

4H art assistants

3rd Radial Op Art

3rd grade artist learned all about the art style of OP ART. It is art that uses shapes, colors and math to create an optical illusion for the viewer, like a magic trick. Check out the famous artist MC Escher to see some cool stuff!

We finished this project with complimentary colors (color across from each other on the color wheel).  

1st Warm/Cool Klee Castles

First grade artist studied the famous artist Paul Klee who was known for using repeating shapes and colors to create abstracted buildings and city-scapes. We started by finding shapes in Klee's works we then using large building blocks to practice repeating and stacking shapes. Then we drew from our created buildings. We finished with Warm Willy or Cool Carly's favorite colors. We also graphed our color choices and added them together. MATH IN ART...SAAAAY WHAAAT :)

4th Holland Tulip Fileds

Did you know that you can farm a rainbow?? OK Well sort of ...

In Holland, farmers grow mass fields of tulips and from an areal view if looks like rainbows! We took a virtual tour at airpano.com (check it out, lots of places to virtually visit). We also learned about perspective (things far away look small and things close up look large). We created a one point perspective drawing by using a vanishing point. We finished with an analogous color scheme.

ENJOY & CHECK OUT THE VIRTUAL TOUR HERE.

http://www.airpano.com/360Degree-VirtualTour.php?3D=Holland-Tulips

2nd Robots

This was a FUN second grade art project. Students looked at shapes as parts of a robot.  They also learned about "friend" or analogous colors (colors that sit next to each other in the rainbow or color wheel. We finished this project off with a printmaking design to border our robot. 

Kinder KAN-DIN-SKY

Kindergarten has learned all about the famous (and Mrs. Garvin's personal favorite) artist, Kandinsky. He was a primarily abstract painter that believed art was like the rhythms and beat of a musical composition. We listened to classical music while we "danced" our paintbrush around the paper. Once dry, we used found objects like cardboard and bottle caps to print to the beat. 

We looked at several of Kandinsky's works and talked about how abstract art can look like many different things. One personal may see a person, another a rainbow and another a dinosaur. In abstract art there really is no wrong answer. Our kinders topped this project off with "I see" reflection quotes.

They turned out colorful, Kan-din-sky would be proud!