Add a little POP to your Valentine!

Jim Dine - POP ART STUDY

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This weeks focus was POP art!  What better way to celebrate a season of love than a movement that celebrates every day awesomeness!               Pop art  is all about art from every day objects. The students learned about famous Pop Artist, Jim Dine and his series of hearts.  My East Mesa students worked with paint this week also!  I bet you heard about that!  They had so much fun!  My K-2 kids masked off their own hearts with painters tape to discover negative and positive space.  They painted them with red, white and black paint while exploring texture and using several different tools to get all sorts of neat designs!  The 3-6th grades created backgrounds for their Pop art using crumpled paper.  What a great texture!  They then used oil crayons to create Pop Hearts Jim Dine would have been proud of!  I was so excited about these that I cleared the walls of the art room and I have them displayed around the perimeter of the room!  If you are on campus this week, please stop in and check them out!  

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At Maricopa LEA this week we also took a good look at Pop Art!  In the K-2 classes the students created their hearts out of primary color oil crayons.  They created texture and got to cut and glue!  That is always a hit!!!  My students 3-5 also took a close look at Jim Dine and his series of hearts.  They created 4 hearts using what they learned about color (primary, secondary, tints, shades, complementary) to make their own pop art series!  We mounted everything to black paper in the end to create a really neat clean look!  I handed these all back at the end of the week in hopes that maybe a few Mom's and Dad's would get Pop Art Valentines!  My 6th grade class this week focused on fonts and the history of typesetting.  They learned all about typesetting and how font design has changed literacy and art dramatically.  Each student is now using what they have learned and designing their own font that we will hopefully use through out the course of the rest of the year!

What's Next?!  Salvador Dali and Surrealism!  We are going to be making some Surreal Mustache Portraits and some pretty TALL circus animals!  Check back soon to get a look!  

My first week was...

"We love ART because..." Project

 Amazing!!!  Teaching your students was so much more rewarding than I ever anticipated!  They are bright, creative and enthusiastic!  At East Mesa this week we worked on "We love ART because..." where the students and I got acquainted with name cards.  Each student created a table tent style name card that included their name and was illustrated with the reason they love art!  It was really great to see what they love to do so that I can plan going forward.  I also got to see what level artists I was working with (awesome, by the way!).  These projects will come home soon, but I want to be sure that I have a few more names under my belt before I let them go!  Also at East Mesa we began a study on negative and positive space with my K-2 classes.  The students each drew a heart and masked it off with artists tape,  (which was quite a bit of ripping and sticking for my young students) and as I expected they did great!  This week we will paint the remaining paper using lots of texture and then remove the tape to see the positive and negative space we created!  My 3-6 grade students are learning about Jim Dine and his heart series (notice a Valentine's day trend?!).  We talked about Pop Art, Jim Dine and worked with primary colors and texture as we work towards a 2 heart series of our own!  I cant wait to post some of these for you to see!  

I finished up my week at the Maricopa campus, and boy did I make more than a few new friends there!  At LEA Maricopa, my students also started out our time together working on name cards for their desks!  They also answered the question "I love ART because..."  On Thursday we began a new project also on Jim Dine focused around the upcoming Valentine's Day.  Students K-2 worked with oil crayons in primary colors to create a heart/s to be mounted on black paper.  We discussed primary and secondary colors.  My students 3-5 worked on hearts as well.  I also introduced them to the work of Jim Dine, famous Pop Artist of the late 50's.  During this project we discussed color, what a series is as well as gave examples of Pop Art!  They will be finishing up their projects by mounting multiple hearts in oil crayon on paper to create their own series on Wednesday of next week.  I cant wait to see how they all come out!  Their hearts were just awesome!  
Check back to see pictures!