The Art Room

The ART Room!! 

"Creativity Takes Courage" - Henri Matisse

Creativity fills the art room at both Riverview and Fishcreek Elementary! SoOo far this year we have used a variety of mediums including: watercolors, oil pastels, tempera paint, colored pencils, watercolor pencils and of course crayons and markers. Later this year we will be using:

• Clay....and my 4th graders are going to be able to experiment with glaze!!! 
• Aluminum & Copper Tooling 
• Aluminum Foil
• Scratch Paper 

That is just naming a few!! 

When we are finished with our artwork we.....KEEP CREATING!! 

This is our "go-to" area when we have completed our artwork! These are alternate art projects that we are not going to do as a class and they are generally related to what we have been learning about or another form of art.

Another alternative to the projects on the board, are our drawing books! I have a collection of drawing books in the art room that show step by step how to draw something. Some of these drawing books include: How to draw...

• Desert Animals
• Underwater Animals
• Race Cars
• Grassland Animals
• Disney's Cars, Princesses & Characters
• Nickelodeon's Avatar & Characters
• Pokemon

More are on the way!!

           _Mrs. H_
 

We've Been Inspired By....

This year we have been focusing on Artists and their work to inspire our art.

We've Been Inspired By.....

Kindergarten

My kindergarten kiddos have been inspired by a famous artist named Kandinsky. We learned a little bit about him and his art. Inspired by his work, we created watercolor circles. These circles were then cut out and united with all of the other kindergarten classes to create a Kandinsky Tree! Turned out pretty cool if I do say so myself!!  (Kindergarten is currently working on flowers)

First Grade

First grade was inspired by Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life. We first used watercolor to create the background. After the background was dry we added black tempera paint for the spiral tree, similar to
Klimt's. (First Grade is currently working on birds.)

 

Second Grade

Second grade is currently working on a Pop Art lesson inspired by Andy Warhol. We divided our papers up into 4 squares, traced our hands with pencil and then colored them in using oil pastels. Today, we began to add black hand prints onto the pastel colored hands. (We are still working on these.)

Third Grade

M. C. Escher was the inspirational artist in third grade. We looked at his OP-Art and then created our own! First we traced our hands with pencil, then added lines using a ruler. Lastly, we colored them using colored pencils. (We began Whistler inspired seascapes this past week!)

 Fourth Grade

Fourth graders were also inspired by the famous M. C. Escher. We looked at some of his optical illusions as well as his tessellations.  Next, we created our own using rulers, traceable circles and pencils. We then colored them in with makers. (We are currently being inspired by Keith Haring.)

 

 

  Keith Haring website to look at http://www.haringkids.com/

 Ask your kids who they have been inspired by in art class!!! 

_Mrs.H_