Dorothy, K
Another design based on Mondrian's paintings. Dorothy's stripe of primary colors turned out very nice.
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Everyone! K to 5
What does creativity look like? Students at KES explored that question at the beginning of the year when learning about art class expectations. We read the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds, and talked about what behaviors and attitudes are important when being creative. Students noticed that when the main character was being creative, she tried new media, experimented with the media to see what happened, and tried looking at things in a totally different way. Most importantly, they noticed that she changed her attitude from "I can't" to "I can". Students then took a few minutes to make their own dot, trying new media and techniques. There are colored dots, dots made of dots, dots made of lines, watercolor dots, negative space dots and even three-dimensional dots. They all look beautiful together! Haley 3rd
Another beautiful wave painting. Haley created a great sense of rhythm in her painting using different kinds of lines. Samantha, 2nd
Our second grade artists learned what an architect does and looked at and discussed the different types of buildings that they might design for their community. Second graders then designed four buildings that serve different purposes in a community. They added fun designs to the outside of their buildings using different kinds of lines. This week, they added watercolor to their drawings. The sunset highlights these cheerful little buildings by Samantha. Benjamin K
Last week, the kindergarten students learned all about vertical and horizontal lines. They made lines with their bodies, played games, spotted vertical and horizontal lines in Mondrian's paintings and stamped papers with lines. Everyone had fun learning! This week they we read Mouse Paint together and they learned all about why primary colors are important. Students colored their line designs from last week. Benjamin's design has so much energy! by Addison, 3rd grade
Students in third grade considered how the elements of art can be used to create a sense of rhythm, as exemplified in The Great Wave off Kanagawa by the famous Japanese printmaker Hokusai. They made drawings using different kinds of lines to create rhythm in their waves. They then learned to make a variety of values using watercolor. Addison did a great job of controlling the value of the paint and creating rhythm in her artwork. Okay...I started this website a little later than expected, so I am going to post "art of the day" for the past 24 school days. These little beauties come from the Kindergartners and First Graders at KES. We read Harold and the Purple Crayon and studied line drawings by Paul Klee. Kindergarten enjoyed taking a line for walk around their papers. First graders thought about how they could use lines to make organic shapes, like they saw in many of Klee's paintings and recalled from Crockett Johnson's book. They then learned to use watercolors to enhance their drawings with beautiful colors. Enjoy! Two of my wonderful students made a work of art to decorate my classroom! My classes were buzzing about their creation all week. Thank you Kira and Christian!
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