6th Grade Fall Art Projects

2 Creative Projects kicked of the 6th grade Art Year 

6th grade artists made small model magic Day of the Dead inspired clay sugar skulls

After learning about the festival, traditions and customs, students looked at table handout for  design inspiration while creating their own unique mini no sugar/sugar skull. 

Lots of hands on exploration and creative problem solving 

Frida Kahlo was our Spotlight Artist 

Colorful Day of the Dead inspiration 

students working on their projects at the desk areas 

Large trays kept the art pieces safe while they
dried 

each one is so unique 

Because of COVID protocol we were unable to have our Fall Festival and Haunted House.

This year the 6th grade students filmed a video version of the story

Hallo-wiener complete with puppets and backgrounds

They shared the video production with the Kindergarten classes

The stage is set!

6th Grade Artistic Creations 2017-18

What did we do this year in Art?

Habitat to Home was our art room theme for 2017-18

We explored a variety of artistic processes, asked questions presented connections and made discoveries- during the journey created some great art too!

Sixth Grade program  overview

Objective for students: to experience a variety of mediums and techniques used for creating art. Expanding art history knowledge, connect to class themes while building art vocabulary. Using art tools, strengthening fine motor skills, support individual development of expression and following a complex series of directions.

Day of the Dead Cultural exploration, artists that inspire, how does this tradition connect to North and South American history and World influences?

Day of the Dead alters- building on previous knowledge create a small clay “sugar skull” form, collage, sharpie and assemblage to create a 3-D frame to display and create a cohesive design. Form and function Engineering/ Art connection Connecting to classroom Social Studies themes 

Take a Line for a Walk-Abstract art overview. Building contained organic 2-D line drawings that will become 3-D organic forms. The transformation of a surface through design, color, cutting and construction personal expression, paper collage with patterns, drawing, and 3-D cutting skills, spatial problem solving

Engineering/Math/Art connection

completed class project 

completed paper projects

Pinch Pot Monsters- artists built clay 3-D models of monsters, starting with basic pinch pot shape. Dried projects were completed with, tempera glazes. Engineering/Art connection 

Pompeii Volcano relief composition – 2-part project, connects to Ancient History Class Themes. Review of Pompeii Mt. Vesuvius and the structure of volcanoes. Build a volcano shape relief image with tissue paper/glue. Part 2 color with watercolors and oil pastels, showing activity and time of day. Science/History/Art observation and imagination

Promotion 6^th grade Portraits-personal statement, photography and colorful collage (end of year project)

Kinder Works of Art 2017-18

What did we do this year in Art?

Habitat to Home was our art room theme for 2017-18

We explored a variety of artistic processes, asked questions presented connections and made discoveries- during the journey created some great art too!

Kindergarten Program overview

Objective for students: to experience a variety of mediums and techniques used for creating art. Introduce art history text and the elements of art. Develop fine motor skills and following simple directions

Kinder Cats-Artists create their own cat using pre-cut shapes, crayons, embellishments and color pencils.

This is Me! - Artist self portrait

Name Game-Line direction, following series of stop and go directions, how to use a paint brush, watercolor blending, skill building.

Snow Person- creating a background with sponge and circle stamps. Collage elements to cut and apply with glue to a background in a specific order- size (small, medium large) position, (top, middle, bottom) parts of the face, adding details, building a collage. Building vocabulary and understanding of size, proportion. Where would a snowperson "live"? Observation/Imagination Supports red, white and blue and weather/season units

Rainbow Robots- following a series of directions, build a robot with 6 rectangular shapes glue to background, add face/ details with crayon, collage and or stickers.  Artists created a rainbow background sky/ground. Vocabulary and skill building

Georgia Flowers – Following a series of directions, tracing a pattern, drawing big, students created large flower shapes, painted with tempera paint, cut out and details added with oil pastels. Later name leaves were added, to identify the artists.

Magic Snails- Introduction to clay, following a series of directions artists blend 2 colors of model magic to create a coil form and build a snail shape.

Art History connection: Jasper John flag series, pop art, Bearden, Georgia O’Keeffe

3-D wire sculptures

Monster Selfie 3 D model

3 D paper sculpture

Frank Stella inspired

We are building on the Take a Line for a Walk project and looking at the later work of American Artist Frank Stella.

Wild Animals

3-D paper wild animals

Take a line for a walk

3-4 session project, taking a 2-D bubble "take a line for a walk" abstract drawing and create a 3-D sculptural paper piece.