Front Hall Bulletin Board Display of Love

Using collage, coloring and composition the 3-6 DHH artists created these lovely Hearts of Art.  Perfect connection to PoP art, skill building and Valentines Day! 

Art during the Winter months

November-February our Sacramento Winter, we stayed warm and engaged working on different art skills, learning about new artists and continued to make art history connections.

Pre K, DHH, Special day and Kinder transformed summer leaves
into fall treasures and learned about plant life too!

DHH Pre K and Kinder made 3D bead and wire
sculptures, great for improving hand eye
coordination  

1st grade drew lots of Lines and Silly Monsters too!

First Grade Cookie People around the 

world.

These two look like a certain Art Teacher!

3rd grade Bear in a Winter Sweater project 

4th and 5th grade artists
made a Pop Art inspired Mona Lisa 

6th grade artists drew organic shapes that they filled with designs and patterns 

and then cut and constructed 3-D sculptural forms

This project is completed over a series of art classes using heavy gloss cardstock,

sharpie markers and neon card stock. 

Challenging construction skills 

4th grade Art Work 2016-17

California and Western expansion are curriculum themes for 4th grade. Numerous projects that we worked on this year centered around American Artists and City/Country.

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!

Fourth 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, strengthen hand eye coordination in creativity and following a series of more complex directions, problem solve as individuals.

Painted paper- process painting with sponges, caps and corks

Fine motor skills, hands on experience

Starry Night Inspired Landscape -What are the basic elements of landscape? Dividing the picture plane. Art vocabulary, following a series of direct drawing instructions, sketching, developing a personal approach drawing crayon and over painting with water colors, salt added for star effect.

Math/Science/Art observed and imagined landscapes

Georgia O’Keeffe inspired fall landscape- Introduction to the work of Georgia O’Keeffe, inspiration from nature, abstracting a realistic image. Color pencil and water color. Seasonal color structure. American Art History connection.

School Project- Heart drawing and watercolor project for online sales

Quilts 2 styles – Introduction to American Quilting with a focus on the 4 and 9 patch patterns. One, painting textiles, cutting and creating patterns within a square format. Two, geometric using solid colors and introduction to tessellations. Connects to wagon trail migration and manufacturing innovations.

Museum Masters Pop Art- Using the Mona Lisa or American Gothic as the composition base students created a Pop Art/Warhol inspired collage. Project introduces printmaking process and Pop art overview/vocabulary.

How’s the Soup? - Pop art inspired project students design their own soup can label, color pencil and markers. Explore text and graphic design. Skill building

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 

Pop a Bubble

Pop Art Bubble Gum Machines

Arty Soup

Inspired by the work of Andy Warhol

Whats on my Sandwich?

POW POP words

Pop art inspired project connected to language art themes.

3-D element to give the words extra POP!

Arty Cupcakes

Pop Cupcake art

Complementary Color Ice Cream Treats

A fun Pop Art inspired project. 3 parts, drawing the ice cream and adding the cone, painting the background and outline, painting the ice cream and adding details.

We are Royal

We are Royal...bad hair day. Pop and Humor great end of the year project with lots of personality!
Inspired by the fashions of the wealthy 18th century nobility, pencil drawing, sharpie and watercolors.

Wig Party Portraits

Connecting to 5th grade American History standards and pop art humor/color this project integrates and supports both themes beautifully. Through discussion and observation (hand outs and historic prints) students are introduced to the fashions of 17th century America/England. They develop their own member of royalty through a series of sketches. The final sketch is transferred to  card stock then completed using water color, crayon and sharpie. Artists can include an ornate frame design and or royal title if they want to.