This art lesson focuses on creating ceramic objects using pinch construction and textured surface design. Look at their pumpkin forms below. Can you see the texture?
When our pumpkins are fired we will glaze them with polka dots inspried by Kusama!
11.09.2011
The Princess of Polka Dots
The K, 1st, and 2nd grade art students are knee deep in our 3D clay unit. It is a fun time and the students are really enjoy it. Right now we are studying the artist Yayoi Kusama in 1st grade. Do you know anything about this Princess of Polka Dots? She uses repetition as the focus for her art installations - making many of the same thing with the same design!
This art lesson focuses on creating ceramic objects using pinch construction and textured surface design. Look at their pumpkin forms below. Can you see the texture?
When our pumpkins are fired we will glaze them with polka dots inspried by Kusama!
This art lesson focuses on creating ceramic objects using pinch construction and textured surface design. Look at their pumpkin forms below. Can you see the texture?
When our pumpkins are fired we will glaze them with polka dots inspried by Kusama!
10.25.2011
Wolf Kahn
My second graders studied spacial concepts in the art room this week. Learning how to create depth is often a big leap for them. We used methods that included overlapping, size, placement, foreground, middle ground, background, and horizon line. I chose Wolf Kahn for this art lesson because I love his work so much and felt like his vibrant use of colors and repetition would really excite my students as well. We had fun! Here are some of our BEAUTIFUL landscapes!
10.04.2011
Elizabeth Murray Lesson
Elizabeth Murray, was a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high-spirited, cartoon-based, language of form. Her subjects often included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself. My 2nd graders were very inspired by this lesson and my student teacher did an excellent job of teaching it! Here are some of our comic inspired animals.
If you would like to learn more about artist Elizabeth Murray check our some of these great resources at PBS.
If you would like to learn more about artist Elizabeth Murray check our some of these great resources at PBS.
9.30.2011
Facebook Bulletin Board
Not a day goes by without Facebook being a topic of some conversation or another. Students sometimes talk about it and I have even heard them use it as a verb "Facebook me!" has replaced the "call me" of days gone by. I thought it would be fun to embrace our cultures love of Facebook to teach the kids about artists! My art partner in crime at my school helped to make it happen. We will change it monthly and hopefully sneak some art learning in while our students are standing in line waiting for art and class.
9.19.2011
Little Glimpses
There are so many things that make me love being an art teacher. Here is a little glimpse of one of the many things that make my day.
9.15.2011
9.04.2011
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