Mixed-up Animals-Dr. Seuss Imaginative Art

 

Dr. Suess Inspires-Mixed up Animals 

                                                                 Mixed-up Animals

 

Video Lesson

Sustainability- Don't Throw it Away, Make Something! Third Grade

  Sustainability Meeting the needs of people now without compromising the ability of people to meet their needs in the future. 

This means a lot of things, but in art class it can mean using materials wisely, and not wasting them. It might mean re-using paper, cardboard, magazines and other items rather than throwing them away. 

Every time you throw something away it gets sent to a landfill. More and more rubbish is piled on top until it is too big and the landfill has to be closed. 

The great thing is that many things can be reused and recycled. 

Lets watch what this might look like for you.

PBS Garbage

The art room is a GREAT place to REUSE items. Let's think about magazines in particular. WHY should we reuse them?

PBS Magazines

Cut shapes out of a magazine page. Here they cut out the shapes of houses.

Make an animal portrait. Get a copy of an animal and cut and glue magazine papers to cover most of the animal, leaving some of the original features visible.

Cut out shapes to create texture in your art.

You could use lots of different colors, or try to stay in the same color family, like all greens or all blues.

Make a portrait, use magazine facial features, and cut squares to frame it!

Find images you like, cut them out and create a story-or make something wacky and wonderful!

Places and Spaces: Near and Far-Second Grade

 Perspective- concept that objects are drawn smaller when they are farther away and larger when they are closer to the viewer. 

 Artists create art about places they visit, live, work, and play. Sometimes artists choose to make their drawings and paintings look like a 3 dimensional space even though they are on a flat 2d surface like paper or canvas. 

Near and Far

Draw the closest thing first, and draw LARGE

What is the largest thing in this picture?

Draw things that are far smaller and higher up on the page.

What appears far away in  picture?

Beauty in Weather: Winter Snow

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Engagement with art can lead to understanding and appreciation of the natural world. 

We have been talking about beauty in our world and how artists use beautiful things to get ideas.

Snow is Beautiful

Beauty in Weather: Winter Snow

How do artists share the beauty of a snowy day in their art? How can you?

Who I am: Figures in Motion-Second grade

 What activities do you like to do? How do you move during those activities? How can you make a person who looks like they are moving? 

In art, a figure is a person. So when we create a drawing of a person, it is called figure drawing.

Artist, Keith Haring is famous for his paintings of figures interacting with one another. 

If you want to draw a person that is moving, you need to know where your body bends.

(Identify the places your body bends.)

By changing the positions of these parts of the body, you can make your person look like he or she is moving.

What are some activities you can draw a person doing?

Draw a stick figure. draw dots at the parts of the person that bend.(knees, elbows, waist, hips, shoulders ankles etc.) Draw people in several poses. 

Color over the stick figures to add clothes, and the details of the person. 

As part of our Who I am unit, think of an activity you enjoy, and draw yourself engaged in that activity.
What are some activities you enjoy? Can you draw a friend too?

Choice At Last!

 Introduction to Choice Art

It's time to put all the studio skills we learned to work!

Today we will review the studio procedures, choose a stick for a studio, think of an idea, and make some art! 

Welcome to CHOICE ART!!!

                                                                            Mrs. Junge

                                                                    Mrs. Pallo

Fibers Studio Opener: Third Grade

 What is Fiber Art?

Fiber art is a type of art that is made from fibers such as yarn, string, or cloth to create art. 

You may be familiar with some forms of fibers such as sewing, quilting, crochet, and felting, because maybe you have a family member who enjoys creating using these methods.

(stuff below only a part of what will be included in video)

Fiber artist, Bisa Butler creates life sized portrait quilts, and spends up to 1000 hours creating them out of unique fabrics. 

Artist, Michael Brennand Wood creates using wood and fibers, often using floral themes 

He incorporates a lot of embroidery into his work.

Artist, Judith Scott created large sculptures out of yarn and other fibers. She was born with down syndrome and did not talk. Her art was her language, and her first sculpture was said to be her first words.

DAY 1

DAY 2

Fibers Studio Vocabulary:

Needle

Felt

Thread

Knot 

Overstitch