Perspective

This week we learned about Perspective. We talked about how when an object is far away, it looks small, but, when it gets closer it looks bigger.  We learned the term Vanishing Point and looked at some examples and then got started creating our own vanishing roads, rivers and paths.

Architecture Unit cont.

Architecture: Building Design

For this lesson, we talked about how art is all around us and how creative people help make our lives more interesting.  We thought up all the different ways that art is used in our everyday life, from the clothes we wear to the buildings and houses we live and work in. We focused in on Architects and what they do and looked at creative works from Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry. 

We then used "lines" (popsicle sticks) to design our own buildings.

Self Portraits

We have been learning about Proportion while creating our self-portraits. You may see your young artists adding light lines going through the middle of their portraits. We used these lines to help figure out where all of the parts of the face go. 

We started this unit with a practice portrait that went home at the beginning of March. We are now working on our larger and final piece. 

Pop Art Heart Collages

While some artists were finishing up the Folk Art Landscapes, others created torn paper heart collages using Pop Artist Jim Dine as an inspiration.

Folk Art Landscapes continued

Tracing pencil lines with Sharpie and adding color with oil pastels. 

Folk Art Landscapes

We looked at different styles of artwork including; Abstract, Non-Objective and Realistic. We also talked about the difference between Folk Art and Fine Art. We then looked at a collection of Heather Galler's (a New York Folk Arist) paintings and talked about what we saw. Observations included: lots of color, shapes and patterns.

We then got to work on our own landscapes inspired by Heather Galler.  Starting with pencil and tracing with sharpie. Our next step will be to color in with oil pastels and watercolor paints.

Snowmen shadows

While the Pinch Pots were firing we had fun learning about negative space, symmetry and shadows by cutting out snowmen and flipping them over to show the shadow. We added a moon as the light source.