Kindergarten students discovered the work of Jasper Johns and how he turns everyday symbols into interesting works of art. We looked specifically at his alphabet artwork and used the technique of wax resist to make a mixed media alphabet inspired by Johns.
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Sixth grade art students learned about the rise of Cubism as an art movement in the early 20th century. They studied works by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, particularly works that involved objects and musical instruments. They then designed a "Fractured Music" artwork that was mixed media with at least one element of collage, paint, and pencil.
Seventh and eighth grade art students learned how to draw using one-point perspective with objects receding to a single vanishing point. They each experimented with different shapes and designed one vanishing point drawing that was then transferred to cardboard and mounted on a background to create a 3D sculpture. The background was created by making a collage with a unifying color scheme, typically monochromatic or analogous.
Kindergarten had a lot of fun learning about lines, shapes, and primary colors! They developed skills with cutting, gluing, and folding to create paper sculptures and paper collage. They learned about the art of Piet Mondrian and used his work to inspire their shape and line collage using only primary colors (and black and white). They then learned all about different types of lines. Students learned how to not only draw different types of lines, but they also learned how to make them three-dimensional
Seventh and eighth grade art class explored different color relationships by making a larger than life color wheel and through experimenting with color schemes in a color theory project. Student had to choose a unifying color scheme, such as complementary or analogous, and create an artwork using that scheme of any subject they chose.
We have finished most of our color studies in the different grades. Each grade made a variation of the color wheel and then worked with warm and cool colors to create different artworks. First grade worked with tempera paint and watercolors. Second grade worked with tempera paint, while kindergarten used washable markers and added water to turn them into watercolors.
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