Category: 2nd grade

2nd gr.- Color Wheel Mixing

Artists use colors to create artworks.  Artists need to understand how colors work together to mix new colors. The color wheel helps us understand how colors work together. What are the primary colors?

What are those other colors that they made? They are the secondary colors. How do you create the secondary colors?  Here’s a little color math.

  • Primary + Primary = Secondary
  • Red         + Blue        = ___________
  • Red         + Yellow    = ___________
  • Blue        + Yellow    = ___________

Now that we know how to use color math to make secondary colors, where do they go on the color wheel? The second grade will mix colors and learn how to read the color wheel.

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:

2015 contest infoThis 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.

2nd gr.- Geometric Collage

The second grade will learn that geometric shapes have straight sides and names, however there are two rule-breakers!  Can you tell which don’t have straight sides?

You will create a collage with an interesting composition.  Composition is how an artwork is arranged.  How many geometric shapes can you find in this artwork?

Think of a place that is special to you. Use two pieces of small construction paper to cut out geometric shapes to show your special place. Here are student examples:

 

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?

http://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/
http://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/

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?

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wallmeta.com

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?

Etsy.com
Etsy.com

 

2nd grade Faith Ringgold Quilts

The 2nd grade has learned about many forms of functional art, such as pottery and quilts.  We’ve also learned that art can be used to express their emotions, feelings, and ideas.  When art expresses ideas it’s called artistic expression.  But wait, there’s another reason why people make art…to tell stories!  Let’s add that to the list:

  • Functional art- can be used, it has a job
  • Artistic expression- shows emotions, feelings, ideas
  • Narrative art- tells stories

There’s an artist who uses quilts to tell stories, her name is Faith Ringgold.  She made a quilt called Tar Beach that tells a story about growing up.  People liked the quilt so much that she turned it into a book!

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What story would you like your quilt to tell?

Student example:

Faith Ringgold- inspired narrative quilt
Faith Ringgold- inspired narrative quilt

 

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!

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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)

  1. Place your hand on the paper, spread out your fingers.
  2. Lightly trace your hand and wrist in pencil.
  3. With a marker, start by drawing a straight line across the bottom of your page that “bumps” over your wrist.
  4. 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.
  5. Color in your lines with markers: a pattern, a rainbow, anything!
  6. If you complete your artwork: WITH PERMISSION, you may get a drawing/ reading book and paper. 

hand examples
http://krokotak.com/

 

“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.

2nd grade- Color Family Quilts

The 2nd grade will use their knowledge of color families to weave a paper quilt.  They will learn that Appalachian artists make quilts as a functional form of art.  Functional art is art that can be used, such as quilts, pottery, and rugs.

Quilting has become more than functional art, it’s now a way for artists to express their emotions, feelings, and ideas.  When art expresses ideas it’s called artistic expression.  Which quilts do you think are functional and which are artistic expression?

Here are some student examples of our Color Family Quilts.  Will our quilts be functional or for artistic expression?

If you really like quilting there’s the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.  It is an amazing art museum!

Your turn…Steps: (Yours will have different colors than the photographs.)

**All “Steps” photos from http://cassiestephens.blogspot.com/

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?

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