Art - Mrs. Northway K-3 Grade

Quarter 1, Week 4, 2017

We spent the week tracing stencils and cutting out organic shapes as in La Gerbe, by Matisse.

This coming week, we will combine all cut shapes to create a similar collage mural in the classroom.

“La Gerbe” Henri Matisse (above)

Matisse and assistant in studio:

  

First Grade:  Element of Art – LINE

Continued watercolor line samplers on watercolor paper:

Students chose their best practice designs from their sketchbooks to duplicate on two small pieces of watercolor paper.

After copying designs with pencils, we traced them with a grease pencil (serving as a resist to the watercolor).

On one card, the empty white spaces were filled with watercolor, using the primary colors; on the other card, we used the secondary colors.

We also discussed the best consistency of the paint and the proper way to hold the paintbrush.…standing vertical and tall like a ballerina on tip toes as opposed to scooting the bottom of the brush across the paper!

Second Grade:  Element of Art – Shape

Bi lateral symmetry printed butterflies:

The students learned:

Basic Printmaking concepts;

We made large symmetrical butterfly “prints” by folding 11x14”cardstock in half and painting the linear details of a monarch butterfly on one side, then folding to print the lines onto the other side.

Next time we met, we continued to practice blending oil pastels by filling in the white space with color.  However, I chose the “Rainbow Butterfly” as our reference for colors instead of the Monarch.  The black line markings on the Rainbow Butterfly are very similar to the Monarch.

See, Think, Wonder:

Discussed how Andy used papers to blot his painted lines to make them more imperfect like the lines on our symmetrical butterfly prints.

From Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species series

https://guyhepner.com/artist/andy-warhol-art-prints-paintings-for-sale/endangered-species/

Third Grade:  Element of Art – LINE

This week, we completed two contour drawings of roses on Bristol board. We will finish by inking over one of the pencil drawings and mounting both drawings onto black Bristol board for hallway display.

Contour drawing of roses by Henri Matisse (below):