5th grade – Page 4 – Ms. Baird's Art Class

5th grade- Picasso Self-Portraits

Picasso was a Spanish artist who invented Cubism with his friend, Georges Braque. Picasso was a prolific artist, who created over 50,000 artworks during his lifetime. His portraits are some of his most famous.

We will create a Cubist-self portrait. Think of how you can rearrange your face in a Cubist style. Here’s the trick: the face still has to be recognizable as you.

Here’s a website that lets you practice making a Cubist portrait.

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Here’s the rubric for this artwork. Review Level 4.

Steps:

1) Write your name & class on the back. Choose two emotions, write them on the back.

2) Draw a circle for your head, add a neck and shoulders.

3) Draw a curved line down the middle of your face. You can make it look like facial features.

4) Add facial features (check rubric!) showing your two different emotions.

5) Add details like hair, earrings, freckles, glasses that give clues that this is you.

6) Draw the background that matches each emotion.

7) Make sure your background reflects your two emotions.

8) Neatly begin painting your background. Follow painting steps.

9) Paint skin colors. You skin colors can reflect your mood, like green= jealousy, it doesn’t have to be realistic.

If you want to use realistic skin colors: you can either mix paint or use paint from the bottles. If you mix skin colors, you must finish it today. Today is the only mixing day.

Peach= white+ a little orange+ a tiny bit of brown
Tan= brown+ white
You can make either of these lighter by adding more white or darker by adding more brown.

10) Finish your painting. Fill out your rubric and staple it to the back of your artwork.

5th grade- Paper Mache African Animal Masks

The 5th grade has learned about ceremonial and functional artwork. We’re building upon our knowledge of ceremonial African masks from last year. Students will learn a new process for creating artwork called paper mache.

Here’s the PowerPoint we’ll use for this lesson. We’ll focus on the African Mask section. Masks from Around the World

Here’s the rubric for this lesson. Our goals for this project:

creatively use line, shape, color, & form to represent a stylized animal
have good effort and focus
mask construction is not broken or incomplete
written reflection

Special Request: Buckets, pails, and tubs

The fifth grade is preparing to do paper mache masks and we need some help! Please donate any clean buckets, pails, or tubs that you may have at home. Anything that will hold a glue mixture will work. An extra special “thank you” if you can donate the matching lid!

Image converted using ifftoany — Something like this would be splendid!

2nd-5th Opt Art Drawings

Opt Art, or Optical Art, is a style of art that creates an illusion to trick your eyes. Opt Art can be on paper, painted on a wall, or even a street. Street artists all over the world create Opt Art, or 3-D Street Art, that people can interact with.

Edgar Muller made a large 3-D Street Artwork called: The Crevasse. What would you do if you saw a giant canyon like this on the street? Would you play in it, be afraid to go near it, or pose in a funny way?

Here’s another 3-D Street Artwork that visitors can be a part of. Look at how much fun people have pretending to be in the library!

4th & 5th graders: Julio Jimenez tells how he got started creating Optical Street Art. He started by drawing on paper, just like you!

Where does Julio get his inspiration?
Does his drawing look the same from ALL angles?
What materials (or media) is he using?

How can you do that? Here’s how!

Now, it’s your turn… (photos below)

Place your hand on the paper, spread out your fingers.
Lightly trace your hand and wrist in pencil.
With a marker, start by drawing a straight line across the bottom of your page that “bumps” over your wrist.
Leave a little space and repeat your line that “bumps” over your wrist. Repeat this step as you go over your each finger. Fill your page, not just your hand.
Color in your lines with markers: a pattern, a rainbow, anything!
If you complete your artwork: WITH PERMISSION, you may get a drawing/ reading book and paper.

“Celebrating Art” Art Contests

Southside students, would you like to participate in an art contest? Entries are due near the start of school, so don’t forget!

Click the image to go to www.celebratingart.com

Why Enter???
Win Prizes
Receive Recognition

Each student may enter one art piece for each contest.
Must enter online. Do not mail art as it will not be entered in the contest or returned.

Contest deadlines:
~~December 10, 2014,~~ ~~extended~~ ~~February 5, 2015,~~ ~~April 9, 2015,~~ August 22, 2015 ***This is the upcoming school year, but art can be turned in any time before August 22nd. If you’d like me to upload your work, please turn it in before Monday, August 17th.

Prizes: Ten winners in each grade division K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 for each contest and their art teachers will share over $5000 in prizes. Winners will also receive a free copy of the art book which includes their work. Other entries of merit will be invited to be published in our full color art book. Teachers who have 5 or more students published will receive a free copy of the book that features their students. Types of art: Any art that can have a still digital image. Paintings, computer graphics, sculptures, drawings, etc. Take a picture of your art. This is not a photography contest.

Best Art Tips: Make sure the art is yours and original- not traced or copied. If your artwork is on paper, it should be unlined paper. Lined notebook paper doesn’t photograph as well as solid-colored papers.

5th grade: DC Trip

I am so excited to go to Washington D.C. with the 5th grade next week. I am even more excited to give four, one-hour tours of the National Gallery of Art. Students will see some of the artists and artworks that we’ve been studying since kindergarten. I can’t wait!

The National Gallery of Art’s Visitor Page

Do you recognize some of these artworks? Which ones do you want to see?

This is Leo Villareal’s installation artwork, Multiverse. It’s a “tunnel” between the East and West Buildings. He made this! This is an artwork! Walking through it always makes me feel like I’m in a music video!

Art to Remember- Ordering!

From: the PTA

To: PreK-5th grade families

Art to Remember order forms will be sent home on Wednesday, April 8th and must be turned in on Wednesday, April 15th. **5th grade families: if your student is going on the DC trip, please have your orders turned in before leaving Simmons on Monday, April 13th.

This fundraiser offers great, one-of-a-kind items AND supports our school. Below is information that will be included with your order form.

What is Art to Remember?

What did my student create?