P is for Paint!: Week 3!

Hi All! This week was full of paint, paint, and more paint! I think every class had me doing my favorite chore in the world...DISHES! Paint dishes, water cups, and brushes! And in the end, each project was so worth all that scrubbing!

Kindergarten learned about being unique and self portraits! They got to create two self portraits this week, one in watercolor and one that we have incorporated into and ABC project where they are getting to practice letter identification and alphabetical order! We have been reading ABC I Like ME, and they love it! They are doing awesome!

My 1st and 2nd grade artists learned about artists and what they do. We also talked about how art is a necessary and awesome element in our community! To remind them about community building we practiced our warm and cool color combos and painted in a new technique (wet on wet watercolor)to create a background for our city art. Students then created their own printing plate of a city that they used to print on their "sunset on the river front" paper. Although these didn't come out as clean as I had envisioned but the students loved the process and we will absolutely be using this printing process in another lesson down the road! And I have a feeling you will notice your students doodling city-scapes here and there from now on! They loved these silly little buildings!

As promised 3rd and 4/5th finished up those awesome Southwest Crazy Cactus projects and are ready to move on to two new projects next week! 3rd will be doing some weaving and talking about landscapes and creating space in their work, while 4/5th grade will be exploring the work of MC Escher and Tessellations in art!

My persevering sixth graders will finally be wrapping up their geometric/organic reptile art this week and moving on to a project that I think we are all really excited for! These guys and gals will be creating cell sculptures that represent plant and animal cells! We will study 3-D art and sculpture as well as model making!

That said, check out what we have been working on!

Oh, and if you are looking for a way to support our art classes we are running low on baby wipes and watercolors! If you run into any great deals on these and would like to donate to our class drop them by the office or feel free to stop in and say hi to me in the art room! Thanks so much!!