Fifth Grade O’Keeffe Flowers

Georgetown 5th grade artists explored the art of American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. Their large flower paintings in the style of O’Keeffe are beauties!

They began by identifying the art elements that O’Keeffe used to create her large “Red Poppy” painting. We discussed organic shapes, texture, line, value, color, and of course…”filling space in a beautiful way” like O’keeffe.

Red Poppy

Their pieces are painted with tempera paints and black glue was used for line and detail.

Learning Targets: Identify art elements used in O’Keeffe’s work; retell two facts about O’Keeffe; create an art piece that fills the picture space.

Parents! Check out your 5th Grader’s flower painting at our ARTSONIA art gallery HERE!

October 29, 2017 by josettebrouwer

Spiders and Pirates

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.

March 26, 2017 by josettebrouwer

Fifth Graders Explore…Hundertwasser

Fifth grade artists have been exploring the work of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser – an artist we call the Spiral Guy. They were intrigued to learn that he never wore matching socks (too boring!) and that he designed toilets and bathrooms (fun discussions for 5th graders!).

Hundertwasser and his spiral art.

Fifth graders began by painting a background and adding texture.

They were then challenged to strike a dramatic or creative pose to add to their spiral flower landscape. As everyone created their landscapes, I took photos of their fun poses…and our fabulous fifth graders worked themselves into their Hundertwasser landscapes.

You might say that they really got INTO their work!

Big thanks to Suffield Elementary Art Blog and Deep Space Sparkle for this project inspiration – Georgetown kiddos loved it!

January 15, 2017 by josettebrouwer

Fifth Grade Snazzy Snowflakes

I am soooo in love with these snowflakes created by Georgetown’s 5th grade artists. This began as a quick project to fill in between some longer projects that we were finishing up. Little did I know how beautiful they would all turn out. Every single one is amazing!

It all began with these stencils I purchased last year…what to do with them?

Add markers – and a whole lot of 5th grade creativity – and WOW.

Our 5th grade boys are cool dudes…but not too cool to create some amazing snowflakes!

Did I already say how much I love these snowflakes? I do. I really do! Nice job, 5th graders – you are incredible artists!

Want to see more of these beauties? Check them out HERE at our Artsonia on-line Georgetown Art Museum!

December 11, 2016 by josettebrouwer

Winter Stars

Georgetown fifth graders are so thrilled with their 3-D winter stars! This project has it all – a little origami with mountain and valley folds, intricate drawing and coloring options, mindful glueing, chalk highlighting, and writing…with (bonus!) fancy silver sharpies. I love the thoughtful ideas about winter and the holidays that they wrote about to create their star backgrounds.

Check out the 3-D effect – the careful folding was a challenge for almost everyone.

Learning goals: Demonstrate a mountain and valley origami fold, use pattern, line and words to create a work of art, explain the meaning of 3-D.

This project was inspired by the always amazing Tennessee art teacher Cassie Stephens – see her Super Star project post here.

See 90 more of our beautiful stars on our ARTSONIA on line art gallery here.

September 17, 2016 by josettebrouwer

From the GTown Art Room…

It’s been a busy first couple of weeks in our Georgetown art room! Here’s a look at what we’ve done in the last 9 days since school began.

We did this!

Quarter circles – we put them together to make some fancy circles.

We talked about three big Art Elements and read an awesome book – because we are all MAGNIFICENT artists!

Kinders and Firsties drew their favorite things and made table tags to help Mrs. B. learn ALL their names! Yikes, I have lots of leaning to do.

Fourth and Fifth graders put new pages in their sketchbooks and did some drawing.

Third graders described warm and cool colors and began a new watercolor project.

Second graders began torn paper masks (mean Mrs. Brouwer took their scissors away and ugh, they had to TEAR the paper!). No Glue Monsters allowed for this project!

Kinders met Mr. Mondrian and practiced their cutting skills to create their own Mondrian Broadway Boogie Woogies.

And Firsties began a cool Picasso project….but I was too busy to take pictures – more later.

Whew! And that is just the first nine days folks!

May 2, 2016 by josettebrouwer

You Are A Guest of Nature. BEHAVE.

Artists in Grade 5 have been learning about the art of Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. They loved his spiral obsession and the fantastic buildings he designed.

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We spent some time discussing Hundertwasser’s love of nature and what it means to be an environmentalist. Our Hundertwasser project honors his care for the world we live in and reflects the art he created for Earth Day.

We loved Hundertwasser’s command: Your Are A Guest of Nature. Behave. This became our inspiration piece!

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And here are our BEHAVE pieces.

I CAN: *Tell two important facts about Hundertwasser *Explain the role of and environmentalist *Create a work of art in the style of Hundertwasser

March 20, 2016 by josettebrouwer

Chinese China

Fifth grade artists finished up their study of Chinese art and culture with a study of Chinese vases. They learned that each vase has a different shape and purpose, such as the ginger jar, which was made to hold ginger and other precious spices.

They were interested to learn that blue and white porcelain became very popular in many parts of the world, and for a long time people did not know how to make this porcelain because the Chinese kept the process a secret!

We created our own “scratch paper” by coloring the paper with blue oil pastels, painting over it with a thin layer of tempera paint, and then scratching traditional Chinese patterns and designs into the dry paint.

Scritchin’ and Scratchin’

I Can: Tell two facts about Chinese vases; decorate my vases with traditional Chinese motifs such as flowers, birds, and geometric patterns.

January 10, 2016 by josettebrouwer

What Does Art Mean To You?

Georgetown 5th graders were challenged to think about what art really means to them. They brainstormed ideas together and read quotes from famous artists.

Then the painting began! They traced their hands on canvas panels and added paint in warm colors. They also explored making texture in the wet acrylic paint with sticks and printing with bottle caps.

Next came the cool colors for the background.

The final step was to collage their ideas onto their paintings. I typed all their brainstormed thoughts and artist quotes so they could cut, color and glue them to their paintings. They also drew directly on their canvas with crayons or markers.

I love the way each student really expressed their own ideas through their paintings!

I CAN: creatively use warm and cool color combinations; talk about art; develop my own ideas about my own art making.

See more of our Art Hands at our ARTSONIA on-line art gallery here.

October 25, 2015 by josettebrouwer

Surrealism Is….

This is how Georgetown’s Fifth Graders describe Surrealism: kind of creepy. Sort of silly. Like the strangest dream you’ve ever had. Unreal. Bizarre. Fantastic. Odd. Sweet but…strange.

They created surreal portraits after viewing the work Surreal artist Salvadore Dali.

Salvadore Dali