Ocean Life: Sea Turtles and Jellyfish

The 2nd grade Ocean Life project was completed over multiple art sessions using a variety 

of tools and techniques 

Ocean composition: watercolor, sea salt, crayon and 
glitter glue 

Sea Turtles and Jellyfish in Art 

Math with Jellies 

Henri Matisse for Kids with a collage project challenge

This video give a great overview of the life and work of Matisse, with a focus on his cut paper work.

At the end it gives step by step directions to building your own Matisse inspired paper collage.

A Moment in Art with Ms. Jane: Collage

Moments in Arts Making a collage 

Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden

 

Porch Stories with Ms. Jane and Mrs. Kane Ep. #3

Spotlight artist this month is the American Collage Master artist Romare Bearden. 

Pre Kinder and DHH Kinder 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!

Pre K  Special Day Class & Pre K Kinder DHH program overview

Objective for students: first experiences to a variety of mediums and techniques for creating art. Hands on development of fine motor skills and begin to follow a basic direction.

Kinder Kats- Exploring materials and creating, using precut cat shapes, crayons and color pencils Fine motor skills, hands on experience

Mini clay pumpkins- first clay experience creating a sphere shape. Part II adding color and paper hand shaped leaves with student’s names supports Pumpkin Unit/Seeds/plant cycle

 My Winter hat- Showing emotions in art, parts and placement of features on the human face using precut shapes to create their own Happy, Sad, Angry… expression.

City at Night-  Color blending to create a starry night sky. Using pre-cut shapes artists build a city skyline. Sky/Ground, City/Country

Shape house- Pre-cut forms to build a house following a series of directions. Shape identification and skill building.

Expressive Color painting-  Using 6 rainbow color tempera paints to cover the paper in an expressive and exploratory project. Color theory

Magic Snails- following a series of directions artist blend 2 colors of clay (model magic) to create a coil form and build a snail shape. 

Art History connection:  Warhol, pop art, Bearden, Glad Monster Sad Monster and Very Hungry Caterpillar book, Van Gogh Starry Night,

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

3rd Grade Artwork 2016-17

In 3rd grade a lot of our art projects connect to classroom themes of original people and folk tales. You can see these subjects reflected in numerous piece created this year.

What did we do this year in Art?

Innovations in Art our art room theme for 2016-17 

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

Third 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, developing fine motor skills and following a series of directions

Painted paper- process painting with sponges, caps and corks

Fine motor skills, hands on experience

Pumpkins-What is a pumpkin shape, what are the parts of pumpkin? Direct drawing process, looking at natural shapes, creating using step by step process. Completed work drawn with white glue on black paper, colored with chalk pastel

Science/Nature/Art connection

Owls- what is an owl shape, what are owl body parts? Continuous line drawing, following a series of steps, learning to let the pencil/pen guide your design, pen stays on the paper. Problem solving how to create small details? Color, cut and create and environment Science/Nature/Art connection observation -imagination

School Project- Heart drawing and watercolor project for online sales

Leaping Orca- what is an orca what are the body parts? Building a multi-layer composition. Watercolor background to create ocean and sky/color blending, tempera paint splash, sketch, draw, color and cut out whale form and position on background elements. Art vocabulary and skill building.

Science/Nature/Art connection observation and imagination

Howling Wolf- Supporting grade curriculum Native American studies artists create a narrative work using color value sky/stars/moon background and a wolf silhouette. Project completed using tempera paint, construction paper, metallic markers and gel pens, Painting and Collage. Nature/Art observation imagination
Totem Pole Project: Building on previous knowledge/skills students create a paper totem component that will be part of a larger group project. Handouts, design samples and coloring pages provided inspiration. Paper collage. Skill building and connecting to Core curriculum.

Promotion Self Portraits

Artist Andy Warhol 

A David Lubin tradition...
Inspired by the post work of  Pop artists Andy Warhol and Shepard Fairy

Artist Shepard Fairey 

Cubist Inspired Portraits

Vase of flowers

Reaching for Love!

We Love Spring!

Robots

2-D paper Robots, 3-D recycle Robots

Red white and Robot

Rainbow Zebra

Cool Cat Warm Room

Cool Cat Warm Room-Using a pattern, designing a picture, following step by step instructions, stamping colors, skill building
Color theory and building art vocabulary

Once there was a Snowman Snowman...

Once there was a Snowman, snowman, snowman...

Winter weather with paint, sponges and pencil erasers
cut out shapes and build a snowman
details with crayon, color pencil and collage

Sea Turtles part 2 and 3

My Happy Winter House

Happy Wintere  House- recognizing a “house” shape, using a variety of materials and techniques to create individual Happy Homes all using the same pattern, following a series of directions.
Skill building