Fall in the Art Room

Happy Fall!  We have been busy the first 6 weeks of the school year in the art room!  Please look for Clay Creations class work to rotate in the display case for the next couple weeks, and for a Photography class photo display in the middle school hallway soon!  

Here's a look at the next 6 weeks in the art room:

Kindergarten Art

Kindergarten artists will be learning all about color this rotation.  From Primary to Secondary, to Warm and Cool colors, your student will be a color expert when we are finished!

1^st Grade Art

Who’s hungry?  First grade artists are learning all about shapes and texture, and demonstrating their knowledge into textured pizzas!  We will also be exploring a type of art called ‘still life’.  These first graders will get a chance to create their own pumpkin still lives and try observational drawing just like many famous artists have done for centuries. 

2^nd Grade Art

Not much is more beautiful than Colorado in the fall.  Second grade artists are learning about a type of art called ‘landscapes’, and specifically how to draw and paint the famous aspen tree.  We will also be exploring collage and architecture, and creating our own city blocks.

3^rd Grade Art

3^rd grade artists are reviewing all they’ve learned about shapes, color, and line in K-2 art in their radial design project.  Students are learning about radial balance and color schemes to create these works.  Also, third grade students will begin to learn about form, light, and shadow while creating their 3D shape still lives!

4^th Grade Art

We are starting 4^th grade art off with a favorite for the students—clay!  Fourth grade artists will be exploring the art of Asia, and creating clay dragons.  We will be sculpting and painting these dragons during our art time.  We will also begin to study the Medieval Times, and they will be creating their own illuminated letters after looking at many ancient manuscripts for ideas.

5^th Grade Art

5^th grade students have learned about Aztecs and Mayans, and we are learning about a historical celebration that started off in the Aztec culture.  Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is an ancient celebration that honors those family and community members that have passed away, and is still celebrated in Mexico and parts of the US today.  We are creating our own “Calaveras” or skulls in the style of this celebration.  We will also be looking into landscape artists of the American Westward Expansion later on, and creating our own realistic landscape paintings.  

Middle School classes:

This block I have 6^th grade 3D Sculpture.  We are creating with clay our 3D postcards before they head out to outdoor lab.  We will be working with wire when they return to create some free standing wire trees!

My other middle school class, 6/7^th Drawing and Painting, has started learning all about observational drawing.  We did contour line drawings and value studies, and are now moving on to draw our final still life of skeletons!