Monday, December 3, 2012

Art Activities Update




 Miss Lieb has been teaching some awesome lessons at English Landing!  Below you will find some beautiful and expressive art made by our elementary students.  Check back soon for a guest post by Miss Lieb!!



Kindergarten paintings were transformed into awesome owl collages!

Our experimental painting activity made for some colorful owl creations!

This activity gave students some extra cutting and gluing practice as well.

After finishing our owls, students got a chance to play with some 3-D shapes! 

We used these shapes to make houses, buildings and towers.

It was fun!

Little hands making a BIG tower!

After practice with the blocks, we drew our shape buildings with marker....

...and colored them in with crayon.

First grade is creating self-portraits.  These portraits are special because they depict what the student wants to be when he or she grows up!  This student wants to be a teacher.


 
Students brainstormed with neighbors in order to get a lot of ideas for details within the portraits.
 
 
 
3rd grade is learning about Pablo Picasso.  After reading the book, Getting to Know Picasso, students sketched ideas for an abstract portrait in their sketchbooks. 

We chose our favorite sketch, and enlarged it on white paper.  We then painted the portraits with tempera paint and oil pastels.

Finished Picasso Portrait.

Finished Picasso Portrait.

Finished Picasso Portrait.

Finished Picasso Portrait.



4th graders have finished their Tar Beach projects.  Since Faith Ringgold liked to use art to communicate, each artwork tells a special story about the student who made it.  We also created a "quilt" border, just like Faith Ringgold!

Finished Tar Beach Project.

Finished Tar Beach Project.

Finished Tar Beach Project.

Finished Tar Beach Project.


5th grade is learning about Andy Warhol and Pop Art.  We will be creating self portraits in Warhol's bright and colorful style.  

5th grade is also studying the color wheel and color schemes.  This information will come be useful when we begin coloring our portraits.




No comments:

Post a Comment