Five more for the HPS Art Show! These awesome clay knee bowls were created by our 5th grade artists. Congratulations, artists! See you at the art show in April – find more Art Show information HERE!
I’ve seen directions for knee bowls on several art blogs; not sure who to credit for this fun project idea – I first saw it here on Adventures of an Art Teacher.
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!
Georgetown’s fifth grade artists are completing two different art pieces this week. We’ve gotten a little behind due to snow days and winter break, so we’ve been playing “Catch Up”…or as we say in the art room, Ketchup Time!
These fun and colorful villages are inspired by the work of Austrian architect and artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Take a peek at this fun video to see Hundertwasser’s work….my 5th graders are still asking to watch the video, but I suspect it is partly because of the music that goes along with it!
Fifth graders have also been getting a kick out of their Salvadore Dali “Vase or Face” pieces. Which is it…vase or face?
This famous optical illusion became the basis for their own surreal vase/face pieces, complete with symbols often used by Salvador Dali himself – ants, eyes, and floating watches. It has been fun to see how my students interpret the Surrealist art movement and integrate the dreamlike, slightly uncomfortable images of Surrealism into their own pieces.
See more Hundertwasser and Vase/Face pieces at our ARTSONIA online art gallery!
Learning Goals: *Identify the work of Hundertwasser and Dali *Name two facts about both artists *Create an architectural drawing in the style of Hundertwasser *Identify elements of Surrealism including transformation and juxtaposition *Create a Surreal drawing in the style of Dali
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.
Look who’s on the cover of the December Arts & Activities magazine….Georgetown artists! Our 5th Grade Hundertwasser mixed media art project that I submitted last year has finally been published. Can’t wait to see the magazine in my mailbox!
Our Hundertwasser Spiral project
Follow these links to see the cover and magazine article:
Georgetown 5th graders have been working on a large group project – our Chihuly Chandelier! After viewing the beautiful glass pieces created by artist Dale Chihuly, we began collecting water bottles for our own Chihuly inspired project.
Chihuly Glass Chandelier
Our water bottles are colored with permanent markers, cut into spirals, and then hot glued to a PVC pipe base.
As you can see…we have more bottles to add to our project. As they work, our 5th graders have been discussing where they could display their project in our building. The rotunda has their vote…our custodian Mr. Rob may have to put his thinking cap on to accomplish this task!
Future home of our G-Town Chihuly?
Extra thanks and a shout-out to GEMMEN’S Hardware for the special teacher deal on our PVC pipe, you guys rock!
Stay tuned for a look at our finished piece…on display somewhere at Georgetown.
Georgetown’s 5th Grade artists have finished up their O’Keeffe flowers, and their completed pieces are stunning! We focused on the art elements for this project, and the 5th graders were amazed to see how many important art elements were included in their flower paintings.
Art Elements we used!
O’Keeffe “Red Poppy”
After viewing O’Keeffe’s “Red Poppy”, 5th graders filled their picture space just like O’Keeffe did, and used a warm/cool color palette to paint their flowers. Their final step – adding black glue lines – really made these beauties POP!
See more of our O’Keeffe flowers at our Artsonia Gallery!
