Happy New Year to All!
Attention 5th Graders: Don’t forget your entries for the National Missing Children’s Day Poster Contest are due on Thurs., 1/27
ECC4 and ECC5 Classes have started making their Suncatcher Mitten project using colored tissue squares, construction and Contac paper. The mittens always make the windows so bright and cheery as they let the Winter sunshine filter through! TLS’s youngest students will enjoy making a collage of Peter’s footprints in the snow using shaving cream and colored dye. This upcoming project is based on the scene from the book The Snowy Day by E. J. Keats, when Peter drags his feet and makes snow angels in the freshly fallen snow. Finally, Polar Bear masks will be created from paper plates and white crumbles of tissue paper inspired by a reading of Jan Brett’s book The Mitten.
Our creative Kindergarteners finished an Adventure Drawing based on the read aloud story The Day the Crayons Quit Drawing. After a slide presentation on various artists’ work depicting types of weather, the children were asked to choose one type of weather and make a drawing using lots of details. Next, the class will polish up on their cutting and gluing skills when they create a Snowman Collage using torn construction paper. One of my absolute favorites!
The First Graders have been practicing their tracing skills while sharpening up on color theory! They reviewed Primary and Secondary colors while creating an abstract drawing of different geometric shapes. The class also made some wonderful colored drawings of snowmen playing outside at night! This long time favorite project was based on the book by C. Buchner entitled, Snowmen at Night.
Our Second Grade class created beautiful Popsicle Stick art while brushing up on their tracing skills. It’s amazing the things you can create with these simple wooden sticks. We will then go back to finishing up our Aerial View Snowmen project. These are coming out adorable with lots of details including buttons, scarves and carrot noses!
Third Grade enjoyed a lesson on Matisse’s Cut Out Collages. The children were amazed to see how much Matisse accomplished in his life and how bright, bold and beautiful his paintings and collages are. Next, we will finish up our Winter Birch Tree paintings with shadows and moonlight enhanced with paint and shimmery glitter. 🙂
Fourth Graders finished up their Cubist Angel project and enjoyed a lesson on Scale in Composition. They were asked to make a drawing depicting how a bug would view its surroundings. One student chose to draw ants marching on top of a discarded french fry that was drawn as large as the student’s paper. The ants were using the french fry as a “bridge or roadway” to get across from one side of a gigantic puddle of water to the other side.
Our Fifth Grade class finished their Optical Illusion Tunnel drawings and moved on to a lesson on the artistic stylings of Romero Britto. This culminated in the class creating their own Britto-inspired drawings using bright colored markers outlined in black. Finally, we will be using chalk pastels to create drawings based on The Snowmen at Night books by C. Buckner.
Sixth Graders have been busy creating a Northern-Lights inspired calendar for the month of January using chalk pastel blending techniques. Our next lessons will be on African art and the history of Graffiti.
The Seventh Grade class has been working hard on sketching Winter scenes and painting the tints of snow using purple, blue and white tempera for the shadows and sky.
Our Eighth Graders will learn how to draw a city street using two-point perspective. They will enjoy adding details such as windows, storefronts, rooftop restaurants, sidewalks and even advertising using signs and murals. This lesson was a follow-up to our lesson on the history of architecture.
All middle school classes will be starting a unit on portraiture in the next month or so.
The 2nd Trimester Art Elective class will finish painting their Northern Lights Popsicle Stick canvas art after finishing up their Name Designs.
Keep Warm and Keep Creating!
Mrs. Kerwin