Kindergarten and first graders have been having fun drawing robots.
We read “Boy + Bot” and “The Robot Book” for inspiration and ideas.
Kinders drew their robots and added squishy sticky foam pieces for details. They loved pushing the squishy “ON” and “OFF” buttons that they created!
First graders drew their bots with shiny metallic markers and added robot cut outs to create their funny robots.
We’ve been all about the bunnies in first and second grade here at Georgetown. What’s not to love about these hoppers?!
First graders painted a bright background and used their best cutting and glueing skills to add their bunnies on top.
Second graders worked on their drawing skills (and patience!) to create these cuties.
This 2nd grade project has been all over Pinterest, so I’m not sure who to credit…but we sure did enjoy it!
Parents…these bunnies will show up on ARTSONIA ….soon-ish!
Georgetown artists are wrapping up the month of October with spooky spiders and pirate flags (aaargh!).
Grade 5 artists tuned up their drawing skills and focused on their craftsmanship while cutting and glueing their pirate flags.
Second grade artists focused on their drawing and painting skills while creating their creepy spiders.
We’ve been keeping warm in the art room as we create these snow-inspired winter projects.
Kindergarten artists drew fun penguins; don’t you love how their penguins are waving to you from their snowy icebergs?
What’s not to love about these snow bears? Second grade artists said that they liked drawing them the best. And adding the scarves and hats. And oh yeah, painting the cool backgrounds.
Third grade artists reviewed the parts of a landscape before drawing and painting their detailed winter village scenes. Their sky backgrounds – ooh la la!
Can’t get enough of Georgetown’s fabulous winter art? See more HERE at our Artsonia on-line art gallery! We’ve got over 13,000 masterpieces on display for you to enjoy!
Second grade artists have been learning about the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. They learned how Van Gogh created movement in his Starry Night painting by using short brushstrokes and lines to show the wind blowing and the stars glowing.
The Starry Night
Second graders used the same technique to show movement in their own winter starry night paintings.
They were excited to add a bit of glittery sparkle to their stars and moon!
After looking at Dutch architecture and examining Van Gogh’s village in his painting, they finished up their winter paintings with cut paper buildings, focusing on overlapping to create depth and interest in their villages.
I Can: understand and create the art principle of movement; use overlapping to create depth; carefully cut and glue (no glue monsters!)
Parents – wouldn’t these make beautiful Christmas cards? Find your child’s artwork on our ARTSONIA website and create beautiful holiday gifts using their original art pieces!
Georgetown second grade artists have completed one of my favorite new projects..ever!
They created these sweet little clay fishies and carefully glazed them with beautiful patterns. Each child made three fish, adding interesting texture by pressing pasta into the wet clay.
Norman Rockwell “The Fishing Trip”
After learning a little bit about the famous American artist Norman Rockwell, who illustrated several magazine covers with fish related images, students created a “fish paper” background, strung their fish using a tricky slip knot, and placed them on the background for display. Fun fact – we used sepia paint to make the fish paper look “antique”. Sepia paint used to be made with a brownish pigment gathered from the ink sacs of…wait for it…cuttlefish!
Our annual HPS Student Art Show is coming up! The show features over 700 works of art from grades K-12, including 100 masterpieces from Georgetown’s finest!
The show is held at the Hudsonville City Hall reception room and will run from April 20-28, 2015. Georgetown artists will have a special reception from 5:30-7:30 PM on Thursday, April 23rd.
Check out Georgetown’s latest selections for the art show below!
Congratulations Artists!
Check out all the gorgeous winter-themed art we’ve been creating!
5th Grade Pines
4th Grade Polka Dot Poinsettias
3rd Grade Winter Pines
2nd Grade Winter Owls
1st Grade Cardinals
Kindergarten Winter Shapes
Parents – you can find more winter art, along with your child’s entire gallery of artwork at our on-line gallery ARTSONIA.
After learning about the life and art of Henri Rousseau, 2nd graders at Georgetown created these ferocious tigers in the style of Rousseau. They learned that Rousseau liked to paint jungle scenes with wild animals even though he had never been to the jungle or had ever seen a wild animal. First the artists drew the tiger and painted it. Then they painted and cut out flowers and leaves to create a jungle scene. These tigers turned out great even though none of these artists had ever been to the jungle either!
See more of our ferocious tigers at our Artsonia On-Line Art Gallery!
There are lots of tiger projects out there on art blogs – we’d like to thank Alum Creek Elementary School’s Artsonia page for our project inspiration! See their page here.
Second grade artists reviewed the art element of LINE as they created these gorgeous hot air balloons. After adding all the lines they could dream up, they carefully added color using watercolor paint.
And of course these beautiful balloons needed to float in the sky…so our artists chose just the right map from an old atlas to complete their work. Stunning, wouldn’t you say?
See more hot air balloons at our ARTSONIA on-line gallery!