Selfies

Student work from Mrs. Dellett's class, 2nd grade

Students love drawing self portraits, because they have an opportunity to visually respond to who they uniquely are, who they want to become, and how they excel as an individual. 
This week, each grade took the self portrait they drew on the first week of school in art, outlined it in sharpie, and painted it. 

Student work from Mrs. Price's Class, 5th grade

Students will be able to look back at their portraits at the end of the year, or even years down the road, and see how they've grown and progressed. 
We learned more about color mixing, how to control our lines, and a bit about ourselves in this process. I have enjoyed talking to the students about their paintings, and the details they chose to include about themselves.  

Student working in Mrs. Butler's  class

Artwork by 5th grader in Ms. Favorite/Strange's class

Student mixes a skintone color

Artwork by 1st grader in Mrs. Schuster's class

Artwork by 1st grade artist in Mrs. Nelson's class

Artwork by 3rd grade artist in Mrs. Coffman's class

2nd grade Student from Mrs. Sandy's Class working

Artwork of 4th grade student from Mrs. Hampson's class

Lichtenstein and Fishy Business

This week, we continued on into our COLOR unit.



Our first, second, and third graders did a literacy-based art project using their color mixing experiments from last week to create a group collage. We first listened to The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. 






The Rainbow Fish is a story about a colorful fish who learns to share his sparkly, colorful scales with friends.
 Each class cut out their color mixing project "scales" and glued them to their class fish.

 

We then named the fish by taking three suggested names from the students and using the key sounds from each name and combining them together. We came up with some pretty funny names like "Miss. Fahootie", "Bulpy", and "Gleautty".  

"Girl in the Mirror", Roy Lichtenstein. 

Fourth and fifth grade started their color project by looking at the artwork of Roy Lichtenstein. He is inspired by comic strips and produced hard-edged, precise compositions of black, red, blue, and yellow hues. Our fourth and fifth graders will be working with the primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) and text to create their own comic squares. This week they sketched and used brainstorming strategies (who, what, where, text/what is being said?) They are looking forward to doing a painting project that is inspired by comics.

The word of the week was RESPONSIBILITY. So, we practiced responsible scissor handling. Below is a video!

1st though 3rd completed rainbow fish