I told Dylan this is probably the best artwork he has done in art and he agreed with a big smile on his face. Great job Dylan!
I am going to try and feature a Kennedy student artist every couple of weeks. My first featured artist is Dylan. His grade has been working on radial designs. Students had to develop their own stencils around a theme and then trace them in a circular, or radial pattern. Dylan is a Seahawks fan so he made stencils of a hawk head, football, helmet, and goal post. He did an excellent job of using these stencils to create his radial design and then coloring his image neatly.
I told Dylan this is probably the best artwork he has done in art and he agreed with a big smile on his face. Great job Dylan! In an earlier blog post I shared some photos from a trip to Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle. Kennedy students loved his artwork and were a little disappointed when I explained we wouldn't be able to work with molten hot glass at the elementary level. We used cellophane, tissue, and filter to paper to mimic the transparency and color of glass art in our work. The power of this work is really in seeing all three hundred and fifty pieces come together to create a collaborative hallway installation.
Second grade recently did a mini-unit to learn about the difference between two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. They made 2D drawings of scarecrows and 3D scarecrow sculptures. I am featuring one minute from Mrs. Davidson's class as students were selecting straw, fabric, beans, and buttons to give their sculpture a unique character. Nothing makes me happier as a teacher than to see each student busy on our task, but also having lots of freedom to make their own choices as an artist. Kennedy kindergartners have jumped right into painting just like the mice in Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh. The mice in the story use their feet to mix the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue into the secondary colors of orange, purple, and green. They end up washing the paint from their fur in the bowl of the C-A-T! The students used brushes as mouse feet to mix secondary colors. We practiced cutting and gluing when we made three mice and a cat for our pictures. We even did some "art math" to add colors so students could tell the story of Mouse Paint at home. A new school year is off to a great start in the art room. The students and I are both "back to work" making art and learning new things. My seconds graders started the year with a landscape painting of the Hastings Bridge. We talked about having a foreground, middle ground, and background to show space in in our paintings. Second graders learned that the size of objects changes depending on how far they are away from you. Even the huge bridge looks small from a distance. The students reviewed painting manners, brush use, and paint cleanup during our work time. There is a lot of Hastings pride evident in the student work. When I first put up our inspiration photograph of the bridge the 2nd grade reaction was similar to a celebrity sighting; everyone had their own bridge story. |
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