Making Art, Making Art, Making Art
Artists at Brown and Lincoln are so amazing! I can't wait to get to school and create with these amazing kids! We've been working hard learning, practicing, creating, and critiquing in our Art rooms! Here is a small example of some of the work happening. Your artist can tell you all about their adventures this week!
Young Fives continue to practice fine motor skills. We read Penguin and Pinecone and discussed the illustrations in the book. Young fives created a penguin collage using wax resist for their swirling wind backgrounds and practiced cutting, gluing, and adding details to their penguin collages. We finished our work by using our fingers to create snow for our penguins!
Kindergarten artists have been practicing using lines and shapes to draw objects. We also experimented with shading using chalk pastels and continue to practice how to hold our scissors correctly to cut. K artists worked hard on their ink drawing snow people!
First graders are using line and shape to draw objects and experimented with two new art materials, charcoal and gel markers! They drew and shaded GIANT polar bears with charcoal. After carefully cutting, our first graders used line and shape to draw a variety of snowflakes with gel pens on their backgrounds.
Second graders are practicing using rules of perspective to demonstrate space in their work. Students created a winter landscape and experimented with changing the size and placement of their trees to show that some are close and others are far away. They applied their knowledge of pattern to their trees.
Third graders were introduced to printmaking. They used line and pattern to create a print plate, then practiced printmaking. We will be using their prints for our next project. For their first experience printmaking, they produced some amazing prints!
Fourth grade artists at Brown are finishing their self portraits inspired by Amedeo Modigliani and beginning their printmaking adventure by sketching various designs for Robot images. Lincoln fourth graders completed two sessions of printmaking after creating their robot print plates. We will continue to explore using various art mediums on our prints and learn how to title, sign, number, and mount an edition of prints.
Fifth graders at Lincoln are finishing up their coil bowl ceramic pieces by glazing this rotation. Brown school fifth grade has been working on practicing creating value in their work and turning flat 2D shapes into 3D forms using highlights and shadows. They are creating imaginary planets for a space background they will use as a setting for their metal tooling project that they'll work on over the next few rotations.
