I had the opportunity to attend the Oregon Art Educators Fall Conference this month and heard from some amazing artists and educators. It was especially exciting for me because my former supervisor from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon was being honored as Museum Educator of the Year! Our keynote speaker was AMAZING! We had the privilege of hearing from the artist Phil Hansen. We watched his amazing TED talk and heard about his new project Goodbye Art Academy.
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6th grade investigated shapes and forms for a 3D paper relief sculpture. Students experimented making different 2D shapes and turning them into 3D forms. They chose their favorite form and repeated it in different sizes. We then talked about balance and unity and they created their sculptures.
The World in a Jar project was a fun collaborative one for 2nd and 7th period classes. Students worked in pairs to create painted paper that demonstrated different types of texture like smooth and rough. Each student then had their own set of painted papers to cut out and put together in a painted collage masterpiece.
Throughout the project we discussed what illustrations are and what it means to be an illustrator. We read books by Jon Klassen and Eric Carle and discussed what we saw in their art. We also saw how Eric Carle creates his painted collage illustrations and noted how it was similar to our process in class. Fifth grade art class used oil pastels for the first time to create a triptych, or a set of three panels in art. Each student chose a plant to be their focus and they ranged from flowers to tree branches. Each panel needed to include a different pair of complementary colors. Complementary colors are the colors opposite each other on the color wheel and when used next to each other they make the colors pop.
In Kindergarten art class, we looked at the work of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. We have learned about the different types of colors (primary and secondary; warm and cool) and we focused on how Mondrian used primary colors in his artwork. We looked at his use of shape and line and then practiced our cutting and pasting skills to create original paper collage inspired by Mondrian.
Here is our bulletin board from our Dot Day inspired watercolor paintings from all the different classes.
Here are the final 6th grade cave paintings! We went on the virtual tour of the caves using the Lascaux website and drew inspiration from the real caves and research conducted using the Chromebooks in class. Groups worked together to create texture and use the same themes we saw in the caves of Lascaux.
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