These featured works were done by students in Mrs. Maul's kindergarten class.
I am very pleased with results of our kindergarten Rousseau projects, it's always exciting when a new idea turns out better than you even expected. After painting jungle plants with tints and shades of green students cut a hole for a creature from the "deep, dark jungle". Students started with two large eyes peering out from this space and then were free to add fur and other details to bring a particular animal to life. We also added vines, flowers and bugs to enhance the feeling of being deep in a crowded jungle.
These featured works were done by students in Mrs. Maul's kindergarten class. Josie is the featured artist of this post because of her excellent work on this watercolor painting. Our objective was to create the illusion of 3D tubes or cylinders through value with watercolor paint. I am impressed with the care Josie took in making sure the transition from dark to light values was gradual. Nice work!
Annabel's class made dream catchers as part of our school study of Native American art and culture. Each student had to string the center of the dream catcher and then select a minimum of four Native symbols to represent them on the border. I am featuring Annabel's work because she chose eight different Native symbols for the border of her dream catcher. She colored in between each symbols completely to finish her work neatly and with care. Annabel usually finds ways to put her own spin on projects while still meeting the goals of what we are trying to learn. I always love to see what she will come up with next! 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. I selected Levi as my featured Kennedy artist because he really took the time to use different types of line and patterns to add interest to his scratch art project. Levi's class has been working on making their own scratch art paper with a tree theme. The process is simple and could be repeated at home with a few basic materials. It would be an ideal Christmas break activity; kids love seeing what colors appear as they scratch! Ricky's grade level has been talking about pattern. We watched a very silly version of The Princess and The Pea. Each of the mattresses our princess sleeps on has a different pattern - it might be AB, ABC, AAB, or another pattern choice. The students painted their pattern choices and also got to pick some patterned scrapbook paper for other mattresses. I chose Ricky as my featured artist because he did a great job repeating his patterns and his princess is so expressive. She is so startled by the pea she has kicked off her covers! The students really enjoyed the Fairy Tale Time at Cool School video- you can check it out below! |
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