Showing posts with label Fifth and Sixth grades. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fifth and Sixth grades. Show all posts
Monday, February 17, 2020
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Friday, November 22, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Cosmic Landscapes inspired by Peter Max
From the Peter Max Website:
America's Painter Laureate and Pop Art Icon, Peter Max's bold colors, uplifting images and uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every aspect of American culture and has inspired many generations.
Max's work has been called cosmic and psychedelic. His more recent works represent his ideas about a harmonious, beautiful world. He is well known for his album cover art, particularly for the Beatles.
Fifth and sixth grade artists examined many of Max's works before designing their own cosmic landscapes in his style. Each student's piece contains elements that can be seen in many of Max's works. What are some of the repeated images and themes that you see in the Peter Max pictures above and in the student work below?
Monday, January 28, 2019
Climate Change Club
A group of fifth and sixth grade students has been working to learn about Climate Change and educate others about how we can make a difference. Here are some of the posters they are making for our Climate March.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Wool Felted Masterpieces- Recreating Famous Paintings using Wool Felting
Make sure to scroll through!
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Inspired by Arcimboldo's vegetable Portraits
You can imagine the comments I heard when students entered the art room and saw THIS on the board. We made a lot of observations and guesses about this piece. Here are a few:
It's a portrait, it's made of vegetables, it's a painting, it looks like it was painted a long time ago, the ear is an ear of corn, it looks like it is someone specific, there's a lot of detail, it is colorful, it's funny, the vegetables look real even though the face does not....
The job of a renaissance court portraitist was to produce likenesses of his sovereigns to display at the palace and give to foreign dignitaries or prospective brides. It went without saying the portraits should be flattering. Yet, in 1590, Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted his royal patron, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, as a heap of fruits and vegetables (opposite). With pea pod eyelids and a gourd for a forehead, he looks less like a king than a crudité platter.
Lucky for Arcimboldo, Rudolf had a sense of humor. And he had probably grown accustomed to the artist’s visual wit. Arcimboldo served the Hapsburg family for more than 25 years, creating oddball “composite heads” made of sea creatures, flowers, dinner roasts and other materials. from www.smithsonianmag.com
Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Zentangle Landscapes
What is a Zentangle?
Zentangle is a way of
creating drawn art from repetitive patterns. It increases focus, mindfulness and
creativity. This process should connect body and mind and help the artist feel relaxed and present, similar to a state of meditation. I feel that it is an important art tool to teach at the beginning of the school year. This technique of careful, focused drawing can help students (and teachers!) deal with stress and find focus when it is most needed. There are many ways to draw a Zentangle. Click here to learn more about the Zentangle Method. Click here to watch some Zentangle techniques on YouTube.
Fifth and sixth graders created Zentangle Landscapes for their Original Works submissions. We used Sharpie markers, Crayola Super Tips markers, Crayola watercolor pencils and regular colored pencils.
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