Pinch Pots

Kindergarten artists used red clay for their first clay experience at Rowe school. They formed the pinch pots and then were able to make it a shape and use clay tools to add designs.

First grade artists used white clay and had the option to turn their pinch pots into a shape, face or an owl.

More Finished Self Portraits

Ms. Finnen's Class

Mrs. Boutin's Class

Mrs. Lemay's Class

Mrs. Miller's Class

Mrs. Melevsky's Class

Mrs. Caron's Class


A few more classes to go...

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Mrs. Warren's Class

Mrs. Elder's class

Mrs. Lincoln's class

MORE TO COME NEXT WEEK

Self-Portraits

Portrait Progress

The Rowe artists' portraits are coming along!

Self-Portraits

We have started our Self-Portrait unit by talking about the importance of Proportion. Where are your eyes, nose, mouth and ears on your face. Did you know your eyes are halfway down? And your ears are about as long as your nose? Your face breaks down into many halves, your eyes are halfway down your face, the tip of your nose is halfway between your eyes and chin and your mouth is halfway from your nose to your chin.
As practice we used crayons and started with an oval and drew each halfway line to know where all the parts go. Our next step was to do the same thing on a larger scale and in lightly drawn pencil so that the lines can be erased.

Art Words: Portrait, Self-Portrait & Proportion

Before adding the mouth to our Self-Portraits we watched this quick clip of faces showing a variety of emotions and talked about how your mouth changes to show different feelings.

FInished Sunsets

We mixed the Primary Colors to make the Secondary Colors and used them to paint the layers of our Sunsets. We then used black paper to cut out Silhouettes of trees and other shapes for our finished Sunsets.

Come check out the sunsets in the hallways of Rowe School

COLOR

School has gotten off to a great start.  In the Art room at Rowe we always start the year with lessons about one of the most important Elements of Art...COLOR.  We have watched a few YouTube videos that sing about Primary and Secondary Colors. I have included the links below. After watching these and looking at photographs and paintings of sunsets we started our own colorful Sunset paintings.

The Primary Color Song

The Color Song

A Snapshot from the Art Show/Ice Cream Social/Book Fair

Collages

We are starting to finish up the bug collages this week. Once all the bug parts were added students thought about where their bug was flying and added a simple background. 

Starting the collages

We talked about a few more Collage artists (Henri Matisse, Romare Bearden) and illustrator Steve Jenkins and then got to work on our own Bug Collages using the Pattern papers we made.

http://www.stevejenkinsbooks.com/making_books_video.html

Eric Carle

We talked about the well known Author/Illustrator Eric Carle and how he makes his illustrations. We then made our own Pattern papers to use in a Collage we are starting next week.

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Colorful Clay Animals ready to go home

The clay animal sculptures are painted and ready to go home. 

Please stop by the Rowe art room to pick up your child's creation.

Working

The clay animal sculptures are in the kiln so back to work on our 2-Dimensional paintings. 

2D to 3-Dimensional

Continuing with the Animal Unit we used white clay to turn our 2-Dimensional animal pictures into a 3-Dimensional Clay Sculpture. The Rowe art room has been turned into a clay zoo, I love sharing my space with all these amazing little sculptures!!

Non-Objective Line Designs

We talked about different types of lines and then used a variety of them to create Non-Objective artwork.