The Battleships are learning about artists who use recycled materials to create work. Here's a flashback to earlier this year when they created backpacks from boxes and up cycled materials such as zippers, tape, and trims. They are functional, too...can open and close and carry school items!
The Legos have been learning about color mixing and practiced making different shades of warm colors: reds, oranges, and yellows. We then painted a still-life of bananas, apples, oranges and flowers and looked closely at the shapes and textures of the different objects.
The Otters and Clouds toured the exhibition By the People: Designing a Better America to learn about collaborative projects that were inspired by communities solving public challenges through design. The students got a chance to view the exhibition and learn about how artists are creating design that solve national issues of social and economic inequality. During out workshop, the students collaborated as design team members to come up with a solution to crowded subway cars. Each student created a new subway car designed to help parents and children avoid crowded spaces. How do music and art relate to each other? How might we draw the different sounds we hear in music? How does the rhythm, the melody and the tempo change the way we use our drawing materials? These are a few of the questions we explored while drawing with oil pastels to different genres of music. We listened to Classical, Jazz, Electronic, Latin, African and Pop. We talked about the different instruments we heard in each song, and how they affect the feelings we get when we hear them play. The Pumpkins and the Astronauts let the music to change their marks, colors and arm movements while drawing.In honor of the start of the Color Days last week, the Apples and Lily Pads explored using different black art materials. We brought out the easels for the first time. We talked about how easels are special tools for artists to use to help them paint and draw standing up. First, we created drawings using charcoal and ebony pencil. Students made different kinds of marks and lines. Next, we used black tempera paint to make large paintings. We talked about the different kinds of lines and shapes we could make with our artist tools, including our hands! The large pieces are now on display in our art classroom. Last Thursday, we experimented with clay and a special black pasta made from the ink of a cuttlefish! Students poked, rolled, squished and pinched their clay to create their very own sculpture. They finished off their sculptures with the pasta and black tempera paint. |
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