Watermelon Weaving First graders worked with Miss Sarah on their last project with her before she moved on to high school. Miss Sarah taught students the parts of a loom and how to weave. After their weaving was completed, the students added a green edge and and black dots to create the watermelon!
Clay snails and Clay Bowls Students learned about some new clay terms: slip and score, coils, texture, slab, etc... they made two coils to form their snails. They added patterns and textures on the shell with an assortment of tools. Once the snail was complete, they added patterns to a circular slab. The slab was placed over a cup to form a bowl.
Rainbow Fish Students read the book Rainbow Fish with student teacher Miss Sarah. She instructed students to make a "wet on wet" painting to create the oceany background. Next they created fish while learning about the value of color (making a color lighter or darker). In the last step, students put cut and glue down different texture rubbing papers on their ocean background, and then added their fish. Completed photos coming soon!
Van Gogh Flowers Inspired by the work of Vincent van Gogh, students made still life of a vase of flowers. Previously, students created texture rubbings with texture plates and crayons. They also made a patterned paper using oil pastels and watercolors. These papers were used to make the "table" and "vase" in the picture. They used symmetry to cut the vase paper. Once assembled, students finger printed the flowers in their vase.
Symmetry Snowflakes Students learned some scientific facts about snowflakes, and we put that knowledge to use in their art work! Students drew the arms of their snowflake so that each was symmetrical. Then they painted the background using cool colors. Once finished, we added some sparkle to our snowflakes with glue and glitter!
Symmetry Painting To introduce the concept of symmetry, students used paint bottles and folding to create these fantastic pieces. This project will be followed by a snowflake symmetry painting.
Geometric Painting Students drew different geometric shapes and painted them black. Once dry, they used primary colors to create new colors throughout their picture.
Patriotic Stars Students sponge painted patriotic colors over star stencils and then removed them to reveal star shapes beneath.
Love Monsters First grade read the story "Love Monsters." They drew their own monsters using line and shape. They added oil pastels, water colors and a touch of salt for texture.
Self Portrait Students looked at examples of Portraits and Self Portraits by artists. They looked at themselves and drew their own self portraits. We will go back to self portraits in more detail later in the year.
Crazy Hair Students brainstormed different types of lines, from curvy to zigzag, looped to dashed, and more! Line, one of the Elements of Art, is a basic foundational building block to most all artwork. We used our inventory of lines to create some Crazy portraits!
Pumpkin Painting As an introduction to the color wheel, students mixed to make a variety of oranges, greens, violets, and brown using different amounts of the primary colors (red, yellow and blue). We looked at the color wheel. We discussed how the color wheel is a tool to help understand how colors are made, and how they can relate to one another. They used the primary colors to make the secondary and tertiary colors. They mixed all 3 primary colors to make brown- a neutral color not found on the color wheel. They used these different colors to paint their pumpkin masterpieces!
Chihuly Wavy Bowls Students learned about Artist Dale Chihuly. Chihuly is a glass blowing artist that has artwork displayed all over the country. His glass wavy bowls were an inspiration for this assignment. Students watched a short video about Dale Chihuly (Here are the links to the video Part One and Part Two ...although I fast forwarded through some spots, this is essentially what we watched!). We also looked at artwork that he created and watched how glow blowing works. Students used line, an Element of Art we have been discussing in class, the decorate their coffee filter. They then rubberbanded them to a cup, and I sprayed them with spray starch. The colors moved and blended. Once dry, the paper stayed in the wavy shape created over the cup. The results turned out beautifully!
Art To Remember This fall, the art room is creating art work to send in to a company called Art to Remember. The company offers the families in our building the opportunity to purchase items with their student's art work on it (like coffee mugs, keys chains, mouse pads, tote bags, ornaments, etc...). And as an added bonus, 25% of the proceeds go directly to our art class for the purhcase of additional art tools and supplies! 1st grade created some adorable little snails for their art to remember pictures. Students drew their snails giving them their own personalities before adding sharpie, crayon and watercolor. To finish the project, students added a swirly shell using tempera paint. A big thanks Mrs. Hahn at www.bloglovin.com/blogs/mini-matisse-2965327/art-to-remember-snails-4574328891for the cute lesson idea!