June - Happy Summer!!

 Well here we are!  The end of another successful and COLORFUL school year.  I am so proud of how far my students have come in a short time.  Here are some of the final projects lighting up the art room and hallways at school! It has been a true pleasure....

 Franz Marc: The artist who painted a blue horse

 Grade: Kindergarten

Materials: Mixed Media

Key Objectives: Drawing by using shapes, adding visual and actual texture

Castles: Another look at Architecture

Grade: Kindergarten

Materials: Mixed Media

Key Objectives: Using geometric shapes and line to create castles, blending with oils

Rythym Maps

Grade: Kindegarten

Materials: pencil, torn paper scraps, markers

Key Objectives: Tearing paper, predicting shape and size, planning, rythym and movement

April and May

The art room has been a busy place over the past few months with the Kindergarten Art show and Sing-a-long!  It was a wonderful event, as always!  It was such a pleasure to see so many happy and proud artists celebrating their accomplishments and sharing with their families.

Here are a few of the Spring projects that have been keeping rm. 104 exciting....

 Still Life Art in the style of Paul Cezanne

Materials: Mixed Media

Key Objectives: Drawing, Cutting, Collage, Composition and Pattern

 Haystacks in the style of Claude Monet - Impressionism

Materials: pencil and oil pastels of warm and cool colors

Key Objectives: Drawing haystacks with thought of foreground, middle and background, ground or horizon line, use of warm and cool colors in Impressionist style (many repeating marks in layers showing time of day), Highlight and shadow

Fingerprint Bug Gardens

Materials: Ink pads in rainbow colors, plus black, white drawing paper, green construction paper, black marker, crayons

Key Objectives: Using fingerprinting to predict and plan insects shapes, fringe cutting, collage, marker to buggy details such as antennae, legs, wings, hairs, etc.

March

Grade: First Grade Clay Cupcakes
Materials: Air dry clay, clay tools, tempera paints
Key Objectives: Pinch Pot methods, "scratch and dab" (clay velcro to attach clay on clay)

  Grade: First Grade African Mask Design
  Materials: Cut paper, scissors, pencil, crayons, glue sticks
  Key Objectives: Study of African Masks, Elongated features, Symmetry,  drafting sketches and planning, creating a symmetrical design

    Grade: Kindergarten Ghost Trees
    Materials: Blue paper, white, blue, purple oil pastels, scissors, glue stick

    Key Objectives: Cool colors used for "mysterious" feeling, wavy lines, oil  pastel blending, collage

 Grade:Kindergarten Self Portraits
 Materials: Paper, multicultural crayons, colored pencil, pencil, sharpie, scissors, glue stick
 Key Objectives: Study and practice of facial features (simple shapes), reflection on our self, eye color, hair color etc. and applying that to our art.  Craftsmanship - taking care in selecting and applying color

 Grade: Kindergarten Pop Art Pizza
 Materials: Paper, scissors, pencil, black marker, crayons, staples and tissues
 Key Objectives: Sculpture, a study in 3-D art making, lines and shapes, cutting

 Grade: Kindergarten and First Grade Cool Color Clovers
 Materials: White paper, pencil, oil pastel, black crayon, washable markers in cool colors, water and brush

 Key Objectives: Mixed media, oval shapes to create clover leaves, blending with oil pastel, creating contrast with dark outline, study of cool colors (blue, green and purple)

January and February

Radial Symmetry and Pattern

 Materials:Folded and Cut paper, collage, watercolors

Stained Glass line design

 Materials: Cut paper, pencil, Thick black marker, crayons

 A Study of Architecture: Geometric shapes, and lines to design houses. 

Materials: paper, pencil, black marker, crayons

Pattern Hearts for Valentines

A review of patterns, whether it be size, shape, line or color

Materials: paper, pencil, markers crayons

Artist of the Month - January

Student: Grace Whitten

Kindergarten

This project is a study of the landscape in 

winter.   We discussed the term 

landscape, and horizon line (the line that 

separates ground from sky).  After setting 

our scene, we learned about foreground 

and background.  Objects that are drawn 

BIG and near the bottom are in the 

foreground, and items that are drawn 

small and near the horizon line are in the 

background.  Grace earned this honor 

because of her consistent effort and 

creativity in the art room. 

Link to Holliston Artist of the month webpage:

http://www.holliston.k12.ma.us/ArtistMonth/index.htm