March 2nd Happy Casmir Pulaski Day!
March 3rd This Tuesday will be a make-up day for February Art Adventures
March 16th Deadline for the 'Doodle for Google' contest for 3rd-5th grades
1st Grade: Modern Mona Lisa-We're busy finishing up sketching that fancy gal and trying to figure out what she'd like to do if she was in the future with us!
2nd Grade: Kandinsky Colors- We are learning about the artist, Wassily Kandinsky and his style of art called Abstract Art. Our focus this week is neutral colors and texture!
3rd Grade: Matisse Goldfish- We will be studying the artist, Henri Matisse. We will begin identifying and outlining warm and cool colors.
4th Grade: Guatemalan Weaving- We are learning to 'warp our looms' and the basic weaving technique of tabby! T-A-B-B-Y!!!
5th Grade<: 1 point perspective- We are busy completing our one point perspective projects and learning about the artist Leonardo da Vinci for our next project- Self portraits!!!!
Art Folder Assignment - This assignment will begin Art Folders for Trimester 3
ART FOLDER 16
A still life is a painting or drawing of a group of objects created by the artist according to a theme. A still life is usually set indoors and contains at least one man-made object. For example, the table on which the group of objects are arranged or in a floral still life the vase holding the flowers.
Your assignment is to select 3 objects, arrange them into a composition, and create a still life drawing. Your still life should include textures and details...shading is encouraged.
