Art - Mrs. Northway - Grades k-3rd

Quarter 2, Week 5, 2017                                                                                                            Northway Art K-3

Kindergarten:  Element of Art – Value

Students created value scales this week with both crayons and also tempera paint. 

Students learned how to mix a medium value with equal amounts of black and white tempera paint, trying their best to paint in circles of white,  grey and black paint. 

We will continue looking at Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow to paint trees with different values next week.

First Grade:  Element of Art – Texture

Students began “frottage” texture rubbing this week by using collected elements from nature (leaves, branches, rocks).  We are discussing texture and the difference between organic and non-organic materials and their textures; for example, the texture of leaves in contrast to the texture of brick or cement.

We also looked at images of traditional Japanese “Gyotaku” prints and the art work of Max Ernst.

Consequently, this week, we learned a little bit of French, Japanese and German words in our research of texture rubbing techniques.

Second Grade:  Element of Art – Shape; Value

Students are drawing Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns.  In addition to the columns, we (or I) decided to stack various animals on top of these columns, playing around with the scale of the animals and the way they are “stacked”..…because it is fun to balance things on top of one another.  (Often there were sculptures on top of ancient Greek columns).

 To decide which animals to draw, students chose their favorite animals, wrote the name on a piece of paper and we picked the names out of a bag.

This animal drawing practice builds on the horse drawing that we did last week.  However, students were working more independently.

Once the column and animals are all outlined with a black felt pen, we will continue drawing background foliage with green colored pencils and finish everything with some watercolors of different values.

Third: Element of Art – Texture

Students worked on a paper relief sculpture “sampler”, using different cutting and folding techniques.  Next week, students will choose one technique and create a 12x12”panel using only one technique, creating a unique three dimensional texture. 

These panels will be combined to create a textural paper relief sculptue using an analogous color scheme of yellow-green, yellow and yellow-orange.