2nd Grade Relief Prints

I recieved a lot of oohhs and aahhs from this project!! We ahd a blast making positive and negative gel prints using organic shapes found around Ridgedale.

1st lines and leaves

First grade experimented with printmaking and contour line patterns for this project.

Kinder leaf prints

Kindergarten artists loved this spray painting intro to Lois Elherts book Leaf Man!

Twitter Tweets

Our artist are already off to a great start with Tweeting ( a form of an exit slip) about things they found interesting in art :)

Eye on Color

5th grade artist examined the differences between realism and surrealism. Students then used charcoal medium to give shade and depth to a realistic sketch of the human eye, students also used oil pastel medium to create a color wheel inside of the eye, giving it a surreal effect.

To culminate the lesson 5th graders held a debate over which art style was more interesting: Hyper-realism or Surrealism. The class was spilt into research, survey, debate teams and a judge and a jury. Hyper realism was the winner in both the debate and the school survey!

Be sure to check out Hyper real art: paintings with such detail to light and color they appear to be a photograph!

Here is a sample artist:http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/hyper-realistic-paintings-by-steve-mills/

Color, Repetition & Movement

4th grade artists focused on Monochromatic color theory (using tints and shades of one color) along with the principles of repetition and movement to create these color value silhouettes. 

Kandinsky's Colors

3rd Grade artist started this lesson with a "table talk" about why colors are important to artists. We came up with some wonderful answers! We then looked at the work of Kandinsky- an abstract artist- who used line and color like music notes to compose pieces of art. Students combined their knowledge of color theory and their ideas about Kandinsky's work to compose a piece of their own. I am loving everything about this lesson!

Organic Colors

2nd grade artist did a study of organic shapes. they created 3 concentric organic forms and combines elements of the color wheel to finish this awesome project.

Intermediate Trees

1st grade artist used tissue paper to overlap and blend intermediate colors. They also put their cutting skills to work when they created trees in the foreground of their pictures. 

Kinder Color

 Kindergartens first project of the year! We started with some chromatography- the separating of colors to find the base of our colored markers.  

After our mixing/separating experiments we read Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. Kinders then used magazine pages to tear and sort color to collage for a rainbow garden. After the rainbow garden was complete we created poetic word clouds with words that came to our minds when we focused on a specific color.

3D Printer!

Our new 3D printer is here and up and running we did a test print and came out with a leaky tea cut, regardless the machine is crazy-cool! We will be posting student creations very soon!

Welcome to ART!

This is my welcome to art video :) This was a great introduction to art class, it goes over the basics in a fun way. A major advantage is that I do not have to repeat the "rules" to all 18 of my classes!! 

New Blog Header :)

New logo and blog facelift ;) Getting ready for next year!

Are You Ready?

Today is our WESTEST pep rally. I can't wait to watch our teachers take a pie to the face in honor of our Mastery students!! Here is a motivational video we created, the kiddo's were great!