2nd Grade students are creating Winter Landscapes. Students learned about the different parts of a landscape; horizon line, foreground, middle ground, and background. Students start by drawing a horizon line across their large sheet of white drawing paper. Next the students use Acrylic Gloss Medium to attach pieces of cool or warm colored tissue paper. The next step requires drawing birch trees on a piece of scrap drawing paper. Students use black watercolor paint to create the bark details. The trees are then glued in the middle ground and foreground. Using more water a bit of black paint, the shadows are added to the trees and ground. The students learn about using a light source in order to place their shadows in the correct position.
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Third grade students created Cubist collages based on Picasso's Guitar series. The students learned all about Pablo Picasso and the Art movement Cubism. The first step of the project was to trace parts of a guitar using stencils (body, neck and head). The students learned about value and used oil pastels to add color to their guitar pieces. Students used various scrap paper and sheet music (printed on copy paper) to cut out interesting shapes. They then arranged their pieces on poster board and glued them down carefully. We discussed balance and use of space. Students then cut their guitar into shapes as well and glued them on top of their scrap paper collage. Students added cardboard and string details for the sound hole, frets, bridge and guitar strings.
First grade students learned about the abstract artist, Wassily Kandinsky. Students looked closely at his paintings and discovered that he loved to use lines, shapes and colors in all of his works. Students used Kandinsky's, "Squares with Concentric Circles" as inspiration for their project. Students used oil pastels to create their brightly colored concentric circles.
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