Landscape & Color

The fourth grade has learned seven color schemes: primary, secondary, warm, cool, neutral, tint, and shade.  They how to mix all the color schemes and created an artwork based on Terry Frost’s Orchard Tambourine.

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The fourth grade took their knowledge of color mixing and mixed realistic colors for a landscape.

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Landscape & Still Life

The third grade has been learning about the three types of subject matter: landscape, still life, and portrait.  They learned that landscapes have a foreground, middleground, and background.  They learned that objects appear smaller when they are further away.  We created an imaginatively colored landscape based on David Hockney’s Mulholland Drive.

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The third grade has learned that a still life shows objects that do not move.  They learned that objects overlap to create distance and shadows can help show where light is showing.  The third grade learned how to draw from observation.

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Second grade

The second grade has been learning how to mix secondary colors: green, violet, and orange.  They mixed their own colors and created artwork based on Ellsworth Kelly’s artwork: Colors for a Large Wall.

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The second grade has been looking at Claude Monet’s landscape and water lily paintings.  They learned that objects appear smaller when they are further away.  They created landscapes showing distance and using cool colors.

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Color, Shape, and Abstract Art

The first grade has been learning that colors go along with feelings.  We looked at the artwork of Wassily Kandinsky and listened to music.  We painted with colors that matched the mood of the music.

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The first grade has also been learning about abstract art.  We learned that abstract art doesn’t show things realistically.  We looked at The Snail by Henri Matisse and created our own abstract animals.

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Patterns & Texture

The kindergarten has been learning about patterns.  They looked at Monet’s garden paintings and identified colors.  We learned that patterns can use repeating colors.

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The kindergarten has been learning about texture.  We learned that texture shows how something feels in an artwork.  We created mixed-up chameleons with texture like Eric Carle’s book: The Mixed-Up Chameleon.

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Celebrating Art- Art Contest

We are excited to announce an art contest!

 

Celebrating Art Contest

Any student grades K-12 can enter for free.  Contest divisions are K-3, 4-6, 7-9,and 10-12.  You can enter any artwork that can have a still digital image, like painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, not photography.  The winners in each grade category will be published in a book. The top ten students in grades K-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12 will receive a $25 check in addition to being published.

 

More information is available at: http://www.celebratingart.com/

 

Due Dates:

If you would like Ms. Baird to enter your artwork online, please have it to her by Thursday, November 22nd.

 

Parents can enter their students’ work online by Thursday, November 29th.  This is the final date for submissions.

 

*We had two students who were published in the Celebrating Art book last fall.  We are excited to offer this opportunity again.