Patriot Day In Art

Leading Edge Academy East Mesa got patriotic this week in Art!  Students spent the week of September 11th learning about what it means to be patriotic.  In art class the students talked about Pop Art and how the more relaxed feeling after WWII influenced art.  Art became lighthearted and fun and flag art popped up all over!  Students competed against each other to create the most patriotic art they could!  All of the art created that week was displayed in the cafeteria and students got to vote for their favorites after lunch on Patriot Day.   Six lucky winners were awarded with character bucks and candy bars for their Most Patriotic Artwork.  Students have also agreed to share their artwork with our US Military Troops when the artwork comes down!  One truly neat week!

And the winners were:

1st Place - Larissa 

2nd Place - Indya

3rd Place - Osztin

Most Patriotic - Haylee

 Most Patriotic - Sophia

Most Creative -Katelyn

  

   

Stop into the cafeteria to check out the work!  I will be leaving it all up for you to see for the next week!  

Also in art this week my Kindergarten friends worked on portraits!  We learned about portraits, and self portraits.  We talked about the shapes that make up a face and how important it is to really look at your sitter.  Next week we will learn more about portraits in history and why artists paint portraits.  Oh, and if your Kinder wants to watch the video we saw this week it is called When Pigasso met Mootisse and it is on youtube!  Check out their Picasso Portraits below (they are of me!)!  

Also take a peek at the awesome weaving's that my third grade finished up this week!  AMAZING!!!  They practiced the element of space and landscape drawing in this lesson. 

Next week we are going to be using quill pens and reading Arlo Needs Glasses.  My older groups will be checking out the work of Wayne Thiebaud and drawing Pop Art Cakes!

P.S. We are in desperate need of new watercolor paints if you run across any in the back to school clearance bins we really could use them!  Thanks so much in advance!