Haring!!!

3rd and 4th Graders studied the artwork of Kieth Haring in art class. We watched a presentation on his artwork and discussed what makes his artwork different than other artists we have studied in the past. We mostly studied this particular mural on the left. Students found that most of his figures do not have faces, necks, or fingers. We also discoved his use of bright colors and black lines to show motion and outline the shapes!! We watched some videos/cartoons that are made by Haring and they are so AWESOME, you can find them at www.haringkids.com/master_art_flip.htm

Panda Art and P.E.!!!

This week Coach Wooten (P.E. teacher) and I were able to do a team teaching lesson with our Kinder Students!!! We all had so much fun! First we watched a cool song about a panda doing different activities you can learn in P.E. (like swimming, jumping, running, and hopping). We got the song video from http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/i-can-run

Next, we discussed and reviewed what it means to "Participate" and we practiced along with the video. After practicing once, we got creative and made really cute headbands with Panda faces!! We used crayons and our imaginations to color our pandas! Some added bows, hats, hair, and more their panda! While they were coloring, Coach and I went around to all the students to fit the headband to their head. When the students were finished cutting and coloring we glued them to the headband, put them on, and got ready to do the activities with the PANDA!!!!! Here are some photos and videos from the Panda Day!!!

Cezanne Still Life

3rd and 4th grade students have studied the artwork of Cezanne. He is most well known for his still life paintings. A still-life is a picture of something that does not move, different than a portrait or a landscape. Many artist were doing still-life's during Cezanne's time but his paintings were different. He used bold colors and black lines. I set up a small still life containing fruit (apples and oranges) and flowers on white fabric. Next students used oil pastels and black construction paper to draw the shapes. Next, they blended colors to add value and texture and lastly outline everything in black!!!

Olden"burg- ers"

Oldenburg is well known for distorting common everyday objects with size or materials. He makes large sculptures of stamps, clothes pins, food, spoons and much more. 5th and 6th graders distorted a hamburger by making it a Silly Olden"burger." The used their imagination and added things into their burger. We used a long piece of white paper, colored pencils and sharpie markers last. They turned out so AWESOME!!!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

March 2nd is Dr. Seuss's Birthday so Herrera's Kinder students drew Cat in the Hat. We used a black crayon first and drew step- by step. Next, they used all the colors to fill in the background and color the hat and bow-tie!! Dr. Seuss would be proud!! Happy birthday!!!

Still life with VALUE

Junior High students are studying the Elements of Art. The most recent element we studied was Value (first we made the tasty value scale, which can be seen in another junior high post)!!! the student drew a still life and were asked to add value and shading into their still life. They were allowed to choose their medium between colored pencil, charcoal or just pencil. Students also learned about CRITIQUES during this lesson. They did a peer critique in the middle of the lesson to improve their still life and a self critique at the end of the lesson.

Dot Dot Suerat

5th and 6th Graders studied Pointillism and the art of Seurat. Next, we used markers and tissue paper to make a pattern out of JUST DOTS!!! Also, we learned about symmetry because we folded the tissue paper in half and the marker went through!! Lastly, we mounted the tissue paper on a piece of construction paper! I think they came out beautifully!

Creative Color Wheels!!

Junior High students are studying the elements of art (line, shape, space, form, texture, value and color) and we just finished the color project. Their assignment was to mix primary colors to create secondary colors and two colors of their choice. Afterwards, they were asked to use those colors and make a creative color wheel.