ART

 

Room 204 - ART

ART: An Academic Subject

In our class art is for fun, for integration with other subjects, and an academic subject all its own. Below are some examples of the work we have produced while studying art techniques and concepts.

Usually each student completes a study piece to determine how he or she would use the space. Then a final piece is created.

Over the period of first & second grade, we will study the following concepts:

  • primary colors
  • secondary colors
  • lines
  • blending
  • value
  • tint
  • shade
  • form
  • shape
  • texture
  • pattern
  • perspective
  • space
  • symmetry
  • abstract art
  • realistic art

Previous Work: Color Values

We have studied the use of line, shape, and form. We also have learned abou color, tone, and value.

Media: Tempera paint on construction paper.

Applied with brushes.

The goal here is to start in the center with  white. Then, incrementally, the artist blends a small amount of black, and completes the expanding shape with an ever increasing value of black.

This artist chose a single shape that seems to engulf the space, creating a tunnel effect.

This bold work of art shows how different values can give a stratified effect.

Finally, this work of art makes use of rough lines and increasingly dark values.

More Examples of Work

The use of line and mood. The creation of abstract art.

 

  

Previous Work: Panoramas that Show Perspective (from 3rd Grade)

The following pictures demonstrate one of the ways art can be integrated with Social Studies. The students pretended to be professional photographers on assignment for National Geographic Magazine. We gathered information by looking at several beautiful photographs.

All students were assigned to create a panorama of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya. They were to accurately depict what they had learned about the geography of the Great Rift Valley, show the animals that live there, and  demonstrate perspective by showing objects of diminishing size from the foreground, to the middleground, and all the way into the background.

Previous Work: Primary & Secondary Colors (First Grade)

Our artists have also learned about primary and secondary colors.

In the following pieces, each artist experimented with the three primary colors (yellow, blue, red). They cut a geometric stencil. Then, using small sponges, the artists applied layers of color using only the primary colors. Blending resulted in the creation of many secondary colors including: orange, brown, teal, caramel, and turquoise.

Media: Tempera Paint on construction paper. Applied with stencils and sponges. 

Notice this artist filled the entire space with continuously overlapping rectangles.

 

This artist started by placing the three primary colors in the center or her piece. Then, the overlapping and blending occurred on the peripheral areas. The result looks like scattered leaves in autumn.

 

The blending of colors is quite obvious here in those areas where the ovoids overlap.