Fall Fun!

We've been hard at work making fall themed artworks. Check it out!

Second Grade
 Students learned about color mixing, drawing, painting, cutting, gluing and adding details when creating these pumpkins.

Kindergarten

Kinders learned about shapes and how to cut them in this fun art project. I love how all of the pumpkins look like they have their own personality!

First Grade

First graders are busy creating Fall Leaves to decorate the gym for their fall concert. In this artwork, they learned about warm, cool and neutral colors.

Lines, Lines, Lines!

Second Grade

Students worked on drawing lions, adding different kinds of lines , coloring them in with layers and watercolored the manes.
Terrific work!!

Kindergarten

Kindergarten started off the year learning how to use their watercolors. They painted a picture based on the book The Dot.

After watercoloring, we worked on drawing several different kinds of lines. They did great and it was so fun to see the concentrations on their faces as they worked to make the lines.

Finally, they learned about how to glue artworks on and to sign their name on the front like real artists do!

First Grade

First graders learned about lines through making exploding silhouettes. They learned that silhouettes don't have details in them, and are the outside shape only. They worked hard on drawing and tracing over their lines with sharpies. 

Finally they used chalk pastels to help the lines explode with color out of the silhouette they made.

Welcome students!

I hope you all had a great summer and are ready for school.  This was a wonderful summer for me. My family went on a vacation to Universal Studios and also visited the beaches. I also went on a mission trip to the Appalachia area in Eastern Kentucky. I helped to fix up different homes.

I also taught 2 classes of art camp which was a blast. The kids made so many neat artworks.

Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades are going to begin the year with learning about different kinds of lines and incorporating watercolors into their art.

Looking forward to a great year!

March News from the art room!

Mason Nevala and Parker Davidson were chosen for their outstanding art to compete in a state-wide art contest called YAM (Youth Art Month). Here is Parker with his art.

Mason was a runner up for the Elementary Division for the state of Minnesota. Great job Mason!

Kindergarten

Snowy Owls

 We  began this artwork by painting a background and adding in snow.

The owls were drawn in with chalk and then painted white.

We drew in eyes, beak and feet with oil pastels.  The owls were detailed using black paint.

Finally, the owls were glued onto a background and we named them. I love how all of the owls have their own distinctive look and personality!

Patterned Circles
Kindergarteners are hard at work learning about patterns in math. Why not bring patterns into an artwork?

We started out this project by tracing a circle and adding in designs and patterns with a pencil.

Next came coloring the shapes and designs in with markers.  
We colored the shapes in with patterns too!

Crayons were used to color the background for contrast from the markers.

Finally, the were cut out and glued onto a frame.

Beautiful!

First Grade

Penguins

To begin, we painted a background in rotating paint style. Snow was added with Q tips.

We drew an iceberg with chalk pastels and used our finger to blend. We then cut them out.

We glued our art onto a frame and glued on our iceberg.

We drew our penguin shape, tummy, eyes, beak, feet and flippers and glued it all onto our iceberg.

Now came the fun! Buttons, fabric, sequins, textured papers, painted papers, construction paper and yarn were put out to decorate the penguins. It was fun to see all of the different creations!

Second Grade

We decorated the gym for the 2nd grade concert. Boy, did our  Musical Shape artworks make the gym colorful!

Kandinsky Circles

We began this art by looking at the art of Kandinsky and talking about Abstract Expressionism. We traced circles, added more circles and put them in boxes.

Next came the painting. We painted without ever rinsing our brushes to see what kind of colors we could make. The only colors we used were primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and white.

On the last day, we detailed our Kandinsky's with black paint.  It was neat to see all of the different colors that could come out of just 4 colors.