Kindergarten has learned about the importance of the Primary Colors, red, blue, and yellow. They learned that white light is full of color and gives us the colors of the rainbow. Black is absent of color. The French artist, Piet Mondrian is best known for his simple, geometric, use of the primary colors. The children will complete this lesson in two class times. (I will post an image of one of Piet Mondrian's paintings at the end of this post. It may show up at the beginning! I am still getting the hang of this blog stuff!)
First Grade revisited Paul Klee. Last year they studied his "Rose Garden" painting and his use of line, shape, and color. This year they are learning that he also loved to make puppets! The children used a paint stir and taped newspaper around one end to make an oval or circular form to create a "head". In their next class they will use paper mache' to add a hard, paintable surface to their puppet. (Mrs. McCool's class used plaster today to create the hard surface on their puppets. It was marginally successful..... I'm alwasy looking for better processes and better materials to improve our art projects. I'm going back to paper mache'!)
Second Grade continues to work on their tropical birds. All drawings are completed and most classes have traced over their lines with black, oil pastel. These black lines offer wonderful contrast to the neon colors the children will be using next week to paint their birds and the tropical foliage.
Third Grade is beginning to finish their study of Wayne Thiebaud (Tee-bow). Wayne Thiebaud is best know for his dessert paintings. (I will post a picture of his artwork along with this post. Again, I don't know whether it will show up on the blog before or after this written part.) As they finish their work they add another page to their art books. Their art books were their first art project of the school year, Book Making as an Art Form. These books are a continuing project that the children will bring home with them at the end of the school year.
Fourth grade is beginning to finish their self-portraits. These are "keepers" Mom and Dad. Mrs. Fritzsche's class finished their's today and Mrs. Fritsche identified every single portrait!!! Way to go Mrs. Fritzsche! Of cours that means that her students did a terrific job of drawing themselves!!! Mrs. Pate's class will finish their portraits next week and then we are interrupting the self -portrait lesson with a lesson that will support our guest artist, Sofiya Inger. Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Capelli's students will finish their self-portraits at a later date.
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