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printmaking unit
1st Grade students looked at bubbles outside and talked about why bubbles capture color and where that color comes from. Students then created prints using bubble wrap and paint. After that, students used their own silhouettes and created bubble wands to finish their work.
Clay Unit: Pinch pot birds
1st Grade students created pinch pots by using their fingers to pinch and poke a single lump of clay into any shape. They then attached eyes, a beak, and wings by using the score and slip method. Students are now adding glaze to their projects.
Painting the Spaces in a Name
Painting Unit: Brush maintenance and care/ watercolor techniques
1st grade students where focused one of the element of art, space Space is an area that an artist provides for a particular purpose. Space includes the background, foreground and middle ground, and refers to the distances or area around, between, and within things. Many young artists create very small drawings even when a large paper is provided. 1st grade students practiced writing their name by touching the top, sides, and bottom of their paper to utilize all of their space. We then discussed the different spaces created between and within our letters.
When 1st graders began painting, they were asked to experiment with watercolor paint in the spaces created within and around their letters. Students used three colors to mix together creating their own colors. 1st grade students used many more techniques including a wax resistant, salt, dry brush, and the wet on wet technique.
When 1st graders began painting, they were asked to experiment with watercolor paint in the spaces created within and around their letters. Students used three colors to mix together creating their own colors. 1st grade students used many more techniques including a wax resistant, salt, dry brush, and the wet on wet technique.
Art appreciation Unit: Art Gallery Walk
1st Grade students used their artist eyes to observe art. After students discussed what they observed, they would recreate their favorite part about the artwork. It could be a shape, color, or anything else that inspired them. The next class they would add their own lines and shapes and colors to complete their artwork.
Bamboo Relief Prints
Elements of Art: Line and Shape
Relief printing is printmaking from a raised surface. This processes is capable of producing multiples of a same piece, which is called a print. 1st grade students used a stamp to press onto their paper. Students repeated this printing process to create pattern, rhythm and unity throughout their bamboo print. 1st graders also drew pandas to hide in the bamboo and practiced writing Chinese symbols.
1ST GRADE DRAGONS COMING SOON!
According to legends, the Chinese dragon is able to breathe fire, summon wind and call for rain, fly into the clouds and hide at the bottom of the sea; it's also capable of becoming as large as the sky or disguising itself by being as tiny as a pinhead.
Unlike castle-burning dragons of Western stories, Chinese Dragons are symbols in Chinese culture. The dragon dance is performed at many celebrations, including the extravagant Chinese New Year celebrations, in hopes of bringing the good fortune and prosperity associated with the dragon. Generally a long dragon, spanning up to 70 meters, was historically constructed using hoops made of bamboo covered by glistening fabric and supported by poles, held by dancers moving fluidly as one body. They bring the dragon to life by raising and lowering their poles to let the majestic creature undulate through the air. 1st grade students brought their dancing dragons to life by using line and shape to create a pattern.
Unlike castle-burning dragons of Western stories, Chinese Dragons are symbols in Chinese culture. The dragon dance is performed at many celebrations, including the extravagant Chinese New Year celebrations, in hopes of bringing the good fortune and prosperity associated with the dragon. Generally a long dragon, spanning up to 70 meters, was historically constructed using hoops made of bamboo covered by glistening fabric and supported by poles, held by dancers moving fluidly as one body. They bring the dragon to life by raising and lowering their poles to let the majestic creature undulate through the air. 1st grade students brought their dancing dragons to life by using line and shape to create a pattern.
Students can use line to represent a work of art similar to the artist Mondrian.
- Mondrian was inspired by other artists. He started to use basic shapes and lines to create rectangles. He used the primary colors to move towards non-representational objects. He used abstraction to begin developing the modern art movement. Students will draw animals and draw vertical and horizontal lines through their animals to create shapes. Students will use primary colors, like Mondrian, to color in some of the shapes inside of their animals.
Technology in the artroom: Quiver Vision app
1st Grade students used QuiverVision.com, an iPad app to transform their drawings into 3D figures that move
and enhance their artwork. This technology piece will be used as an extension to the drawing unit. |
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Drawing UNIT: In the jungle witH hENRI ROUSSEAU/
tIGERS, MONKEYS, AND SNAKES oh my!
Students can identify a still life. Students can create a still life using overlapping.
- Henri Rousseau was most famous for painting jungle scenes, even though he never visited a jungle. He was inspired by gardens books, and stuffed animals. Students will use real leaves and toy animals to set up a still life. They will look at their still life and use their artist eyes to draw what they see. Also, students will make animal collages of a tiger, monkey, or snake to practice more overlapping.
10/19-10/23: 1st GRADE STUDENTS CREATED ARTWORK FOR THEIR ART FUNDRAISER
Ask to see your child's stickers as well as all the other merchandise you could purchase to support your child's artwork and the Emerson Art Fundraiser!
Color UNIT: Melting primary colors
Students can identify all the primary and secondary colors on the color wheel. Students can create all three secondary colors from primary colors.
- Students will use red, yellow, and blue oil pastels to blend together to make the secondary colors. Students will also use different kinds of lines to create a melting background. Students will use vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines.