This Week in Art
FINE ARTS FESTIVAL — Our K-8 students’ artwork will be on display throughout the first floor hallways the entire month of May. Don’t forget to look for your child’s artwork when you come to our annual Spring Concert/Program this upcoming May 14th! Our Art students have worked really hard this year and their creative artwork is a testament to that.
Kindergarten students will be working on a playground sculpture made out of paper strips. They will be using their fine motor skills as they manipulate the paper via folding, curling or twisting it. The class will learn how to make a swing set, tunnel and jungle gym. First graders will continue to work on their Jasper Johns’ style encaustic flags. This week they will be using watercolors to paint over the entire flag. Then they will add sticky stars and mod podge. The Second Grade is doing a fantastic job drawing their silly Picasso faces. They will add color and texture the next two classes.
Grade Three has been working hard on their Yarn Art Collages inspired by the indigenous Huichol people of Jalisco, Mexico. They are learning how to coil and cut pieces of yarn to fill in their drawings/designs with colored yarn. The Fourth graders are excited to make different types of pointed or flat-roofed structures simply by folding, creasing and taping paper together. As a class they decided to make buildings that you would see in a typical community such as a bakery, fast food restaurant and pet store. Fifth grade is having a blast creating their tin foil action figures….more to come about this!!!
Sixth Grade will learn how to design a room by using one-point perspective. This will give the students the much needed practice of manipulating a ruler to draw lines vertically, horizontally and diagonally from a focal point. This is not as easy as you think and definitely takes patience and practice. Seventh Grade will finish up their Circle Cities this week. Eighth Grade will continue to work on their scratchboard designs. Some students are making landscapes and others are tackling portraiture. This is not easy when you are holding a metal tool at a 45 degree angle. Finally, the Art Elective class will use acrylics to paint on glass jars this week. Their canvas paintings turned out wonderful!
Keep Creating!
Mrs. Kerwin