Tuesday

November 2008

Color WheelMixing paints to make a color wheel. Ms. R's 3rd grade class enjoyed this painting project.



November 2008

Art Theory
Meet the Color Wheel
Students worked in teams using manipulative to build on previous information regarding lines, shapes and forms and moved into color-vocabulary words and concepts were introduce such as color wheel, complementary colors, primary colors, secondary colors, warm and cool.

October 2008

Session I
Overview
Lines and Lines into Shapes and Forms

October

Art Around Town
Mixed Class
Poster Project
Serna Center
Overview: Working with students in a mixed classroom setting (grades 2-6, Macomber and Wittenborn) all of whom are deaf or hearing impaired to create a
poster design as an artistic form of communication. The students went through many steps of creative development from research and sketching to lay-out and completed design. For the purpose of this project the class focused on theme of littering. The project was completed in 4 art sessions
over a period of 2 weeks. This project was supporte in part by the ARI (Artist Residency Institute) and the UC Davis extension program.

Student work will be on display in the ground floor showcase at the Serna Center (central office for the Sacramento Unified School District) through November

October 2008

After School Landscape Art
The After School Academy is another service offered at David Lubin. The Academy provides a wide rang of after school programs available on a per session bases. The California Landscape collage featured on this site was created in our after school Landscape Art class. 21 Students’ grades 2-6 were provided visual source material and encouraged to use expressive colors and line. They were allowed to select their preferred drawing materials from oil pastels, construction paper crayons, pencils and colored pencils. This art piece was submitted to CSBA for consideration by the selection committee for Senator Darrell Steinberg.


October 2008

Kinder Kats

September/October 2008

Egyptian Sarcophagus

The 6th Grade Egyptian Art project connects to the sixth grade Social Studies curriculum theme Ancient Civilizations. Over a period of 3 workshops students developed their own sarcophagus* design based on source material such as photos and books about ancient Egypt. Students were encouraged to use hieroglyphs and Egyptian god/goddess in their designs. Students developed 2 designs one on foil (gold/silver) and the other on paper. The third design element was a mummy drawn with white pencil on black paper. The project was assembled like a book with each layer opening up to expose the next design.
*A sarcophagus refers to the carved, usually stone case in which the linen-wrapped mummy was placed.
The gilded sarcophagus of King Tut is probably the best known of the Egyptian sarcophagi.

Monday

September/October 2008

Name Tile
Using their name as a graphic starting point, 4th and 5th grade students developed a colorful abstract tile design. These designs are reminiscent of tile elements found in many of the Spanish missions. This was a three part workshop focusing on the elements of art (line, shape and color) as well as the principles of design (balance and unity). Students developed sketches into finished drawings using pencil and then added color with makers and or colored pencils. Finished tiles were matted on construction paper and will be displayed as a group wall piece.


September/October 2008

Zebra Stripes
First Grade project developing patterns using paper,scissors and glue.
Students cut out vertical lines of their own design using scissors. The white stripes where glued to black paper creating an AB AB pattern.

September/October 2008

Mr. Bones
What does the human skeleton look like?

2nd grade students imagine what the human skeleton looks like and then they get to meet and draw Mr. Bones

September/October 2008

Op-Art
with 3rd Grade
Black and white pencil compositions using lines.
Checker board designs are simple patterns of squares alternating between two colors.In this project, students used simple geometry tools to make lines and circular shapes, then defined a pattern within the boundaries of the overlapping shapes using the repetition of only black and white.

September 2008

Lines lines everywhere!
Kindergarten and First Grade artist composed pictures with straight lines.

September 2008

 Welcome, Kindergarten

This is Me!
Kinder Self Portrait project using crayons, pencil and colored pencils.


Welcome back to another fun year of art. Last year the art program involved not only materials, techniques and hands-on projects but also discussions regarding aesthetic and art history. I will continue building on that format this year as we as we explore the 7 elements of art. These are key ingredients used to develop and discuss art. Our spotlight artist for the entire year will be Pablo Picasso. Thanks to an increase in the resident arts budget from the PTG this year every student should receive at least 16 art classes. That means that your child will get 4 art history classes and a minimum of 12 studio work shops. We are fortunate here at David Lubin to have a designated art room, 5-D the room with the Mural outside as our central studio for all of these activities.


That’s just a brief outline of what we will be doing in art this year. If you would like more information about the art program please feel free to contact me at the school (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) or leave a message on the blog.