Math in Art!

That is right!  For all of my arithmeticians that "do not love art", this week was for you!  Most of our projects this week somehow tied into math as art (with the exception of Kinder and 3rd Grade...don't worry, you'll get your chance)!

Kindergarten Kindergarten this week played with color mixing.  We read "Mouse Paint" over and over and after using "Mrs. Krug's Magic Pencils" (watercolor pencils) to mix colors, we created our own "Mouse Paint" palette!  We continued to work on cutting this week and I have seen a huge improvement!  If you have been practicing at home keep up the good work!  At the end of the project, all of my good listeners (the whole class) got to add a mouse to their paint palate!

First and Second Grade focused on their favorite numbers and paying homage to them in a fancy portrait.  We talked about secondary colors and how to create them as well as Pop Art and creating exciting art using common things like numbers!  My little artists in these classes loved creating layers and did an amazing job on this project.  I actually would love to frame all of these and put them in my home!  So neat!!!

Third grade is continuing to explore the element of space through landscape drawings.  They also got to use my magic pencils!  This week they finished up their landscape drawing/painting and next week we will finish out this project by adding an awesome tree weaving right up front!

Fourth through sixth grade classes learned about color.  We created color wheels and talked about how complementary colors are used in art.  Students choose their own favorite set of complementary colors to finish out their Tessellation art work.  This group also focused on Math in Art this week as we continued to explore how a time of heavy focus on geometry effected artists like the cubists, Mondrian (our August Artist of the Month) and of course Escher.  Students good to look at a ton of pieces by M.C. Escher and we talked about Impossible Realism!

Take a look!

First Grade also created Color Birds this week.  We used these to play a fun color mixing game!

...And lastly, a little treat for the 4-6th...although I haven't quite finished up, here is my Tessellation!  I would have loved to post the students silly Tessellation Portraits, but their pictures could have created a privacy issue.  Coming soon to a backpack near you!

Next week we will focus on Pop Art while competing in a Design Your Own Flag contest!  We will talk about Patriotism in honor of Patriot Day on September 11th and use Pop Art to be patriotic!