Wanted!!

Wanted!

Mrs. Garvin is looking to collect old building toys from the list below. Even if they are only a few spare pieces. Students at Ridgedale will be combining art and design to engineer new building structures.  Student will be creating 3D connector pieces to connect these different building toys using our new 3D printer! Feel free to send them with your student at any time. Thank You!

DUPLO BUILDING TOYS

LEGOS
TINKER TOYS

K’NEX

LINCOLN LOGS

Its a Mystery!?

Each month I post a mystery artist on out bulletin board. I give a few examples of the artist's work but do not give out their name. Students can find details about the work to research it. Students submit their answer for a drawing. Last month Madilyn in Mrs Bloom's class won her choice of art supplies for knowking that Da Vinci created the Mona Lisa :)

Whonwill be next?

4th Grade Poetry Leaves

For this project students analyzed art peices for the element of contrast. Students then applied the concept of contrast to a design that was painted on a leaf. Students also painted an abstract background and disected a Robert Frost poem.

3rd Movement Prints

For this project we learned about the Principal of Design Movement. We studied Van Gogh's Starry Night (famous for its sense of movement) and then we used shaving cream and food coloring to create movement prints. To culminate we compared and contrasted the movment in Van Goghs work to that of Action Jackson!

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.