Recently in Art 1st graders were introduced to the artist Piet Mondrian. We looked at and discussed his work. 1st graders learned about horizontal, vertical lines and how to put them together to create simple geometric shapes. We talked about visual balance and composition. Also we reviewed the primary colors red, yellow and blue. Each 1st grader began with a square of white paper and cut and glued black strips of paper to create their own geometric composition using horizontal and vertical lines. The following art class 1st graders used primary colors to carefully paint in their shapes. At this point of the art project the children were to think about the balance between color and white. Students enjoyed this design based art project. |
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Kindergartners working hard on their cutting and gluing skills in these too cute chilly penguin collages. The children drew and cut out their own penguins shapes and glued them together. In this exercise we learned how to use white glue with out making a mess, just a dot not a lot! Kindergarteners also used marker to make a patterns on their scarfs. To create snow we used cotton swabs to dot on white paint in the background. I thought it was so funny how most of the kids kept calling the earmuffs, headphones.
Art can tell a story, and stories can inspire art. For this art lesson we read 2 Native American stories Tomie DePaola's The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush and Paul Globe's The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses both with beautiful illustrations. We discussed how artists can be authors too. The first step was to create a radiating sunset with paint. The following class we practiced drawing horses, we talked about the shapes we could use to draw a horse, and we looked at pictures of horses. Then we learned what a silhouette is: the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, its edges matching the outline of the subject. These 1st graders did fantastic!, it wasn't easy to draw and cut out a horse. Did you know our school Wawaloam Elementary was named after the Narragansett Tribe Princess Wawaloam who lived over 350 years ago in our area. Recently in 1st Grade we looked at apples and sketched large apples onto our papers. Then the 1st graders took long strips of different kind of red printed papers and tore them into smaller bits. The next step was to glue them down inside of our apple drawing to create a beautiful textured collage. Afterwards the 1st graders outlined their apple with black marker to make them 'pop.' These apples came out marvelous! |
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