Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Kevin Cole, Georgia artist, inspired Paper Sculptures
First graders were introduced to Georgia artist, Kevin Cole and his art work, inspired by ties. My first graders were so excited about the ties, that I had enough donated so that each student could "WEAR" a tie in the art room while they were creating their "tie" like paper sculptures! The paper sculptures are amazing and hanging all over our building!
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
First Grade Warm/Cool Fish Prints
First graders found out all about Japanese fish printing, "Gyotaku"......but we didn't use real fish! Long ago Japanese fishermen would paint a fish that they had caught with black ink and press a piece of newspaper on top of it to create a print, this process was used to record to size of their catch! We also learned all about warm and cool color schemes, fish habitats and even used found objects (corks) to print along the bottom of our artwork to create coral. What wonderful art learning was had by all!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy Valentines Day!
Kindergartners created these FABULOUS collage hearts inspired by artist, Jim Dine. Each student drew 6 hearts and got to use various art materials: watercolor pencils, oil pastels, tempera paint, glitter crayons, metallic crayons, tissue paper and markers to make each heart unique. The borders around their collage were their found object printing paper scraps from their previous lesson, African mud cloths!
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