Kindergarten artists had a little review on drawing rectangles as they created fun “Frankie” and “Frankette” portraits. We practiced drawing rectangles in the air with our imaginary markers (short line, loooong line, short line, looooong line!) and then set to work finding and drawing the rectangles on Frankie’s head, teeth, and neck bolts. We added [...]
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As a wrap-up to our recent study of Surrealism and the art of Salvadore Dali, my 5th graders spent some time doing the Monster Mash with these crazy “real-not-real” surreal collages! You can tell by the results that they had a blast!
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Fifth Graders are finishing up their study of Surrealist artist Salvadore Dali. We read “Dali and the Path of Dreams” by Obiolis and Subirana – the pictures in the book are gorgeous and really helped my students understand Surrealism. My 5th Graders were intrigued by the long-legged elephant images in the book – and so [...]
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The latest additions to our Georgetown Permanent Art Collection have been finished by the framer and are awaiting installation on the walls of our school! The work has been beautifully framed by Kandu, Inc. in Holland, Mi. Our students are very excited to see the new artwork too. Sneak Peek at our new pieces, still [...]
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My second grade artists have been learning about the art element of VALUE this month. This is kind of a difficult concept for second grade but I wanted to lay the groundwork for future projects relating to value. So we began with a simple shading project using artist pencils. My kiddos were excited to use [...]
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I’m trying a Word Wall in the art room this year. We artists have such an interesting vocabulary, and I thought it would be interesting to emphasize our “art words” with my students. Second graders have been contributing lots of Word Wall ideas – here they are checking out recent additions to our Art Room [...]
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First Graders added collage scarecrows to their landscapes this week. They did an amazing job of following directions – I gave them lots of ideas on making their scarecrows, put the materials on the tables, and they had a blast! (special thanks again to Patty at Deep Space Sparkle for her post on scarecrows…gave me [...]
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Fourth Grade artists are finishing up their “Scream” self-portraits in the style of Edvard Munch. This is the first time we’ve done a Munch project, and my kiddos are loving it. They were fascinated by Munch’s “The Scream” painting and loved mixing primary colors to create their own Expressionist backgrounds. (Thanks to Ren at Dali’s [...]
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My kinders had fun experimenting with pattern this week. They cut out a large circle with a dot pre-printed in the center….then practiced painting “top, bottom, side, side” to create a beautiful pattern. The art room was very quiet as they all whispered “top, bottom, side, side” while they painted! While the flowers dried, they [...]
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First Graders began a scarecrow project this week – they can’t wait to get to the scarecrow part! I need to give kudos to Patty at Deep Space Sparkle for this project – I’ve always avoided scarecrows with the little people – too scary?! Deep Space has some excellent ideas for scarecrow projects, without the [...]
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