Kdg.- Kinders are painting their Functional Art Clay Magnets. They're using oil pastels and tempera paint to show the great textures their shoes created.
The Kinders are geniuses when it comes to identifying Art for Art's Sake and Functional Art. Please, quiz them.
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| "It's Art for Art's Sake still because you haven't glued the magnets on!"- Kinder |
2nd- Using their new understanding of warm and cool colors, 2nd graders are creating abstract paintings inspired by Alma Woodsey Thomas, a female African-American painter. As students finish, they have been creating Collaborative Collages with their classmates. It's funny to see how students handle teamwork on their own. You can definitely tell who the
Third graders are learning about the Aboriginal Australians and their dot art. Dot art is used to disguise secret stories and symbols belonging to the Aboriginals. Students are using symbols to create their own Dreamtime story (the equivalent of a fable) to hide in their dot paintings. Next week, we'll begin painting dots and using our hands to create stencils-- much like the aboriginals do. Pictures to come!
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| Aboriginal Dot Art |
Fourth graders are exploring the quilting traditions of Gee's Bend, Alabama. Gee's Bend is a primarily African American community that has a unique style of quilting. We are designing our own paper quilts using photos from Nat. Geographic as a "patterned fabric". The students are really using their knowledge of color harmonies for this project.
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| Quilts from Gee's Bend, AL |
Most students have finished their Personal Pop Art and we are moving onto Japanese Notans! Notan is a paper cutting art form using positive and negative space. Some students are using heart shapes for V-day, some wanted to use shapes of their own choosing. This is a challenging process to understand initially, but as they work I hear kids say, "OH NOW I GET IT!"
