This Week in Art
Happy October!
Our PreK students will be making a replica of Monet’s Lily Pond with construction and tissue paper. Last week everyone enjoyed painting their paper plates using the turquoise paint. Kindergarten will be learning how to draw a person’s body using lines and shapes. This practice will get us ready for our upcoming Leaf People Collage. First Graders mastered the names and drawing of several different kinds of lines. This week we will practice drawing different shapes. Then we will use these skills to draw, cut and paste different shapes onto our “Kandinsky Lines & Shapes Collage.” The Second Grade class will learn about Folk Art by viewing the artwork of artist Heather Galler. Galler uses lots of bold colors, patterns and organic shapes in her beautiful folk art pieces.
Third Grade will learn how to draw sunflowers after viewing the Impressionistic style of artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Fourth Grade class will finish up their wonderful Landscape Collages. Students in the Fifth Grade will learn about the Indonesian technique of wax dyeing cloth called Batik. They will view different examples and make a faux batik of their own using glue and watercolors.
Last week the Sixth Grade class learned about using the technique of foreshortening. They will be drawing a scene of a person “falling into or falling down from something.” Seventh Graders will be busy working on their abstract leaf drawings using oil pastels in fall, warm-tone colors. Eighth Graders are working on their “Scream” drawings based on the artwork of E. Munch.
The Art Elective class is doing a wonderful job painting sunflowers on canvas using acrylic paint. With some spa music playing in the background this class has become a very relaxing experience for all!
Keep Creating!
Mrs. Kerwin