4th grade – Page 3 – Ms. Baird's Art Class

K-5 Art Contest: Doodle4Google

Google is holding its annual Doodle4Google art contest. This year’s theme is: What Makes Me…Me. Click on the image for more information. The basic information:

Who: Kindergarten- 5th grade (and all the way up through 12th!)
What: Doodle4Google artwork ON the official entry form and 50 word description of your artwork
Where: Online or through mail-in entry
When: October 19- December 7, 2015
Why: Your design could be the Google logo for a day! Additional prizes: a $30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 Google for Education grant for our school, a trip to Google headquarters in California.

Need some inspiration? Here are videos sharing the creative process of Google’s Doodlers, the artists who create Google’s special logos.

Step 1: Imagine

Step 2: Create

Step 3: Share and Collaborate

Please see Ms. Baird if you’re interested in this awesome art opportunity!

4th gr.-Abstract Circle Paintings

The fourth grade has been learning about abstract art with Georgia O’Keeffe. Abstract art doesn’t realistically show people, places or things. Here’s an abstract artwork called Orchard Tambourine, by Terry Frost. Why would he give his artwork that title?

Students will learn eight color schemes: primary, secondary, warm, cool, neutral, complementary, tint, and shade. They will learn how to mix all the color schemes and create an abstract artwork based on Frost’s Orchard Tambourine. Student examples:

Here’s the rubric for this project.

Here are the eight color schemes that we will be painting.

Want to learn more about color mixing? Click the image below.

2015 Superintendent’s Holiday Card Contest

Our Superintendent, Mr. Hawkins, is inviting you to participate in his 2015 Holiday Card Contest. Each year, Mr. Hawkins sends holiday cards to people all over Woodford County. Your artwork could be on the cards! Here are the contest rules:

This contest is optional and to be done at home. Please see Ms. Baird if you need a sheet of copy paper or a paper copy of the rules.

K-5: Big, back to school, collaborative project

I’m so excited about our first project of the school year. The whole school will participate in one big, back to school, collaborative project.

What’s a collaborative project? It’s when you work with other people to create an artwork. For this project, each student will create one artwork that we’ll put together to create one large artwork.

Here is an example of a collaborative artwork. Each student made one heart, then all the hearts were combined to make one large artwork. What types of lines and colors do you see? Do you have a favorite square?

We’re going to take inspiration from our school’s theme of superheroes. What better way to remind us that we’re all superheroes than by creating an artwork together?

Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade: If you were a superhero what would your shield look like? What types of lines, shapes, and colors would you use? How would it show who you are?

3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade: What is your real-life superpower? Are you a kind friend? Great at math? Wonderful at helping others? A fantastic teammate? How would you depict your best qualities on a cape?

Artists: Claes Oldenburg & Coosje Van Bruggen, pop artists

Claes Oldenburg and his wife, Coosje Van Bruggen, are known for their large-scale sculptures. Often these sculptures show food and everyday objects, such as thumbtacks. He creates two types of sculptures: large-scale projects and soft sculptures.

Soft Sculptures

Large Scale Projects: Think about each sculpture’s texture, details, and environment.

Student examples:

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.

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?

2nd-5th gr. mARTch Madness- CHAMPION!

We have a CHAMPION! Congratulations to the 4th grade! They have won the mARTch Madness bracket! Their artist, Stephen Wiltshire, has earned more votes than any other artist we studied.

As an award they will get to paint Thunder white. Why white? To prepare him for the annual Spirit Week KPREP kickoff! (Of course, this is not Thunder!)