I'm just loving these Kindergarten self-portraits. They make me smile with delight! The children have really been putting thought into expressing themselves and are taking the time to make decisions in their artwork. One of my students said to me in class, "I can't find a dirty blond crayon. What crayon should I use?" I showed her how to layer yellow and brown to get the right hair color to match hers.
The students worked hard and are so proud of their finished portraits that they arebeaming with joy. I had to take pictures to share!
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A self-portrait drawing is one of my favorite end-of-year projects to do with students. I love how their personalities shine through. It's a great way to showcase everything they have learned in art and in the regular classroom. I am so proud of the growth I see through this project. Many of my K's came into day one of art class not knowing how to use scissors correctly or how to write their name properly. The last day of art, here they are cutting the curvy lines of picture frame out and asking if they can write their names fancy. WOW! I am amazed. These are truly masterpieces!
Kindergarten at Summerside Elementary has been studying the warm and cool colors. We drew snowmen with a cool watercolor background and then a melted snowman in the "warm" color background. To understand what a melted snowman would look like, the students watched a time-lapse video of a snowman melted and drew what they saw. I enjoyed watching their reactions. To complete their work, kindergarten practiced using Elmer's glue to attach their art to the purple paper and created a snowflake picture frame around it. Nice work Kindergarten!
Mrs. Gebauer's 2nd grade artists recreated my favorite Monet painting in today's art class. We have been talking about warm and cool colors in art class and found a little extra time to make a small Monet painting. Students used oil pastels to draw and then used blue, green, and purple watercolor paints to wash over it. Very beautiful!
Mrs. Merrell's first graders at Willowville Elementary studied the artist Mondrian as well as the primary colors this week by painting in his style. They set up their papers carefully creating vertical and horizontal lines with paper strips. They discovered that when the lines criss-crossed they made shapes such as squares and rectangles. The final step was to use the primary colors to fill in the shapes. When the first graders were finished they had masterpieces similar to Piet Mondrian. They also created abstract paintings that focused on line, shape and color (3 of the elements of art that we studied this school year.)
For our color rotation, students at all levels have been enjoying this video by OK GO! I love the creative way they show colormixing and it helps the students remember how to create secondary colors from the primary colors. Warning, it's very catchy. First graders at Summerside Elementary learned about the primary colors by studing and painting like artist Piet Mondrian. We review horizontal and vertical lines and how to create shapes by criss-cross our lines. Rectangles and squares were filled neatly in with tempra paint. Nice work 1st grade!
Mrs. Setter's Kindergarteners at Summerside Elementary learned about primary and secondary colors today by creating their very own colorful lady bugs. If you look closely, the two different color wings tells you what two primary colors are mixed together to get the secondary color of the bug's body. For example, blue and yellow make green. We also had time to sneak some math facts in, such as, two halves make a whole as we made the wings. We finished this fun lesson by reading Eric Carle's The Grouchy Ladybug.
Projects on display at Willowville Elementary from our Shape Rotation. The colorful projects brightened up the hallways!
The texture castles above were created by First Graders at Summerside Elementary. During our texture rotation, 1st graders are learning how to use shapes to create their own castle and then use special stickers to create the texture of bricks. They also have the option of using texture plates to create other design textures in their grass and sky. They loved using stickers to build strong castles and liked coloring over the bumps to create the brick texture. I enjoyed seeing they drawings unfold as they added details from their imaginations like fire-breathing dragons and of course self-portraits as queens and kings.
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