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This week in the Art Room….

The first week of February…and another busy week in the art room.  Here’s a look at some of the things we worked on this week!

Fifth graders were excited to begin painting their clay masks!  After finishing painting with acrylic paints, they will spend several classes adding raffia hair, beads, feathers, and other embellishments.

Fourth and Third graders added several coats of glaze to their clay wall pockets and clay coil pots.  These will go back in the kiln for another firing before we carefully wrap them and send these treasures home!

Second graders are looking at the art of Jim Dine, and painting “squiggle hearts” in the Pop Art style of Dine.  They are enjoying thinking about warm and cool colors as they paint with tempera paints.

 

 

First graders are doing “ketchup” (catch up!) projects, finishing several loose ends on their vehicles and warm/cool color experiments.  Some of us also began “Love Cats” decorated with….what else, hearts!

And finally, our kinders enjoyed painting hearts and practiced their folding and cutting skills as they cut hearts to frame their paintings!   

 

 

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New Projects in the Art Room

Artists in grades 3, 4, and 5 are currently working on their clay projects.  Third graders have been learning how to build a coil pot, while 4th graders made on a wall pocket to hang on a wall.  Our 5th graders are excited to begin their clay masks and can’t wait until the masks are fired and ready for them to paint.    

           

Rolling coils for coil pots……and folding a clay slab into and “ice cream cone” wall pocket.

    

“Throwing” a big pancake to build a clay mask. 

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Time and Talent Hour with Mrs. Brouwer!

Two fabulous Georgetown artists recently bid on a chance to create a special art project with Mrs. Brouwer.  Proceeds earned from our staff “Time and Talent” auction were donated to the Grace Thatcher Foundation.

Erica and Analicia enjoyed lunch in the art room and created clay turkeys, owls, and bowls to take home.  They each also received an art drawing book and a tool box filled with art supplies.  Here are the masterpieces they created!    

   

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Mini Mona Lisas

Artists in Grade 3 have just finished learning about one of the most famous works of art in the world, Leonardo daVinci’s “Mona Lisa”.  They learned that daVinci was an artist, an inventor, a scientist, and an engineer!

We discussed the Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile and learned about daVinci’s trick to draw her eyes so that she seems to follow you around the room.  We also imagined what it would be like to pose for daVinci as he painted, and wondered what Mona Lisa was thinking about for those long hours as she sat in her chair.  

Our Mini Mona portraits reflect some of our questions about Mona Lisa….Who are you?  Are you happy?  What are you smiling about?  Who does your hair?  Are you hungry?  Do you get many lunch breaks?  Did you know your painting would become so famous?

Check out some of our Mini Mona portraits!