To be in kindergarden again.....

These kindergartners have no inhibitions when it comes to painting! This week we expanded our palatte and used primary and secondary colors to finish our line and shape paintings.  Where lines come together, a shape is formed! Check out the amazing results.  Look for these colorful pieces to soon adorn the walls of the media canter and the hallways. (Please remember that the art room is a messy place. Dress your child appropriately for art day...paint happens!)

People and Places!!!

We are busy, busy, busy in the art room! Our theme this year in art is People and Places.  We will spend the year exploring self-portraits using a variety of materials. We will draw underwater portraits, royal portraits, Lego portraits and sculpt clay portraits.  People visit places, so we will also explore the exciting world of architecture. We will draw castles, cities, bridges, monuments and learn perspective drawing.  All grades will use clay, tempera paint, a variety of printmaking methods, chalk pastel and oil pastel. It gets messy!  I am looking for new smocks, so if you have old shirts, please donate them to the art room so that I can "up cycle" them into art smocks.

The art room received a shiny new digital kiln this summer! Now I have assurance that our amazing clay masterpieces will be fired to the perfect temperature.

To kick off our People theme, on the first day of art,

every student in the school created a small mono-chromatic (one color) self-portrait that will soon be mounted together as a mural of 1, 020 unique and colorful faces! Here is a sneak peak of the beginning of the mural...

1st graders are working on self-portraits from head to toe, 2nd grade is beginning family portraits, 3rd graders have started underwater self-portraits, 4th grade is beginning fantasy castle drawings and 5th graders are drawing self-potrtraits with mirrors. Kindergarten is beginning a basic line painting. Here are a few snapshots from the week.