Kindergarten and Alma Thomas

Wow! My award for "Most Messy Classroom Followed by Most Impressive Clean-Up" goes to KINDERGARTEN!

It was like New Years Eve confetti in my room with all the torn paper we used for this project. The kindergartners started this project by looking at Alma Thomas's work and discussing the shapes and colors in her art. Then we drew white lines on black paper as a map for where our torn paper would go. We glued and tore up paper and glued, and tore and glued and those kindergartners tore it up! These turned out just perfect.

1st Grade Mixed Media Cars on Roads

For this project, we used lines, shapes, colors and patterns to complete our cars and roads. We used stamps for the background and shapes for the cars. Nice work 1st grade!

Frank Stella Collages

3rd Grade Mixed Media

We looked at Frank Stella's work and talked about positive and negative space in pictures. Then, we used different media to create interesting colors and designs on our papers. We then cut out different sized organic shapes and arranged them to create our composition. Nice work!

5th Expressive Portraits

These expressive self-portraits turned out awesome! The 5th graders looked at expressive portraits by famous artists and discussed how each portrait gave off a different emotion. They each had to decide on their own emotion they would portray in their self portrait. I took each of their pictures and printed them in black and white. Then, the students had to choose colors that went along with their expression. Warm colors were used for the more positive and happy expressions, while cool colors were used for the more sad, calm or shy pictures. Nice job 5th grade!

Sun and Rain

Yellow Day, Blue Day

 

Kindergarten's next project was attaching emotions to colors. We started out with blue and yellow. I described yellow as a happy color because the sunshine makes everyone happy. Blue was described as a sad color, because it makes us a little sad when it rains. We created a sun and an umbrella to show our colors, using watercolor and collage as our media. Love these projects!