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.

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays Rowe Families! 

All artwork has been sent home this week in large Portfolios. Please look through the art with your child and find a special place for your favorites. 

The empty Portfolios need to be returned to Rowe so we can fill them up again in the New Year.

ENJOY!

Pinch Pots

The first graders used white clay to create their pinch pots and had the option to add clay to create a face or use tools to add a pattern. They used water color paints to finish the pinch pots with a colorful pattern.

                

Kindergarten classes used red clay to create their pinch pots and clay tools to add a pattern in the clay. They used white & black watercolors to paint on a pattern.

Painted Pumpkins

What's the first color that comes to mind when someone says Pumpkin? Orange and maybe green?
We used mixed watercolors in different shades of orange and green to paint in our pumpkins and oil pastels to color in our suns, moons, clouds and stars. Next week we will finish up the Pumpkins by painting in the Background.

Pumpkin Contour Line Drawings

Pumpkins Pumpkins everywhere!
We used our Artist eyes to really look at a Pumpkin and talked about what kind of Lines and Shapes we would use to draw them. We used pencils to draw the Outline & Contour lines of at least 3 pumpkins and added a Horizon line to ground them. We traced over the pencil lines with permanent marker so that the lines won't get lost next week when we add color to our pumpkins.

 

How do you know it is a pumpkin not an apple? Add Contour Lines.

Leaf Rubbings

 

To go along with our Fall tree theme we did some leaf rubbings this week with real leaves and a few leaf texture plates.

This gave others time to finish up their Creative Color Trees.

Finished Creative Color Trees

We practiced mixing the Secondary colors to paint the leaves on our trees. We talked about how when the trees are full of leaves they look like a big bush of color but when the leaves start falling you can start to see individual leaves. They came out so bright and colorful here are a few finished by the kindergarteners.

Creative Color Trees

We started our Creative Color Trees this week by building up Color & Line to create Visual Texture with crayons. We looked at paintings of trees by Vincent Van Gogh and talked about the way he used his Brushstrokes to show Texture and Movement and how we can use the direction we color to show the Texture of our trees.