Our character word of the month is perseverance, which was required to complete the plan and all the stitching within three class periods.
A big shout out to Zilker Elementary for the inspiration and ideas on how to organize this assignment for fourth grade. Each students' embroidery square had five required components: satin stitch, straight stitch, cross stitch, running stitch, and a plan that used a line of symmetry.
Our character word of the month is perseverance, which was required to complete the plan and all the stitching within three class periods. Fourth grade is working on color wheels that include tints and shades. We enjoyed some John Coltrane and Miles Davis while we worked on this mellow Tuesday morning. The plan is to slice these color wheels up into a more interesting radial design in the coming weeks.
I wanted to share a few of our winter figure paintings from Mrs. Arnold's class. In an earlier post I showed students working on the gesture drawings that were the under-drawing for these paintings. Each students selected one action pose to add clothing, a background, and details to. These paintings are large - 18" x 24" - so we worked on large areas first with large brushes all the way down to teeny tiny brushes for things like a single snowflake. These paintings were a fun way to practice the proportion of the human body, review painting techniques, and showcase the skills fourth grade students have built up over their years at Kennedy. Featured artists (from top to bottom): Gabby M. Jazzmine H. Matthew D. Lily D. For the past few years I have done a mini animation lesson with the upper grades the last full week before Christmas. The students are so excited to have a ipad "all to themselves" and they can make 3-4 short animations within one class period.
This year we used a new app called Animation Desk. This app has so many great features: unlimited number of cells, a wide selection of drawing tools, and the ability to add sound clips. Our goal was a fifteen cell animation that showed growth or change. The video features a selection of animations from all three grades. This project had two main goals: to make a monochromatic painting by mixing different values of one color and to show movement in our art. I found the lesson on Mrs. Byrd's website through Pinterest. Throughout elementary school we talk a lot about color theory- how to mix colors, how to change their value, and how they interact with each other in art. A monochromatic color scheme uses different values of one color. Students mixed white or black with a chosen color to make tints and shades. They were encouraged to mix 3-4 tints and 3-4 shades to make their paintings more interesting. Movement in art is how an artist uses shape, line, and space to make a viewer's eye travel around an artwork. Kennedy fourth graders used shape and line to draw a movement design they would paint. Their lines and shapes could show movement that was jagged, bumpy, gelatinous... it was up to them! After painting we added more movement to these works by changing the physical space they take up. Each student cut their paintings into strips and then glued the strips to have one, two, or three bumps that were not flat. We talked about making the location of the bumps match value changes in the paintings. Between the illusion of the movement lines and the actual wavy action of the paper these works gave students a good beginning understanding of motion in art. . |
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