The Collage Studio

What is a collage?

A collage is made by cutting up, arranging, and gluing down materials such as paper, string, fabric, and newspaper. 

Nancy Standlee

"Coller is a French word, that means to glue something together, so it makes sense that a collage is when you glue materials to a flat surface.

Romare Beardon

Marina Molares

Henri Matisse

Jaeda Jene

In collage you can use many different materials to make something new!

interesting papers, torn or cut

newspapers/ any text

magazine pictures

sheet music

yarn

stickers/stamps

buttons

fabric

This week we will practice using materials in our collage studio. We will show that we can use and care for glue bottles, and use different types of scissors, punches and texture tools.

Demo Collage Video:

1st Grade

I can cut out GEOMETRIC shapes

I can safely use scissors.

I can arrange and change my collage.

I can open and close a glue bottle

I can use glue with control.

I know texture can describe how something feels.

I can arrange and change my collage.

I can sort my scraps by color.

I can clean up my workspace.

Drawing Studio-First Grade Still Life

Still Life: A work of art about arranged non-living objects

Still life paintings can show us a new way of looking at ordinary objects around us. 

Some common subjects of still life art are:

Food

Toys

flowers

Still Life Demo Video by Mrs. Wyman

How To Make a Still Life: 

1.  Choose a board.

2.  Choose fabric

3.  Choose an object

4.  Sketch the still life lightly

5.  Outline your still life with a dark line

6.  Color your still life

Reflection:

Why do artists make still life?

Extra Art- 3 Shape Challenge

What can you make using 3 Shapes?

1. Choose 3 shapes

2. Think about how to arrange them on your paper.

3. Glue your shapes down to your white paper.

4. Work in pencil, Sharpie and colored pencil to express your idea.

The Drawing Studio

Let's Draw!

This week we are experimenting with drawing materials. We will show what we know in our Studio Practice book. This practice will prepare us for our work in the drawing studio!

Pencil

With a pencil...
You can create light and dark values. 

Value is the lightness or darkness of a color. 

You can create light and dark values by:

• changing how hard you press on your pencil.(1st & 2nd)
•  choosing different pencils.(3rd)

Blending and Layering: 

Making new colors in the drawing Studio

Chalk Pastel

You can make new colors by blending chalk pastels.
You can use a tissue, or finger to soften and blend and soften your drawing strokes.

• How would blending be useful in your artwork?
• How can you control your blending?

You can layer colored pencil or crayon by coloring one color over another lightly.

Crayon

Colored Pencil

        

• Can you see where the colors overlap in layers to create new colors?
• Why do you think it is important to color lightly when layering?

Oil Pastel (grade 1 )

• How does oil pastel feel when you are drawing compared to crayon ? 
• Why would you lay down light colors before dark?

When we sketch, why do we draw lightly?

sketch demonstration

-drawing lightly, erasing, and going over some of the lines with more pressure

Second Grade landscapes/Third Grade Cityscapes

Landscape

 Cityscape

Clean Up: Please arrange your drawing materials for the next class.

Extra Art--Roll-a-Miro

Drawing Game!
Roll-a-Miro

Joan Miró was a Spanish painter 

who combined abstract art with surrealist fantasy

Roll the dice and see what you can create!

Studio Practice Books

Welcome to Art Class! 

We are so excited to begin the school year! We are once again offering “Choice Art” in our classrooms.
Credit: mini lesson by MaryEllen Picker

What is Choice Art?

Choice Art means you will be learning to work like artists: 

• You will come up with your own ideas for making art.
• You will choose a studio that is best for your idea.
• You will be responsible for setting up and cleaning up your studio.
• You will share your work with your classmates.

First we must learn a little about each studio in our book, Studio Practice.  There is one section for each of the main studios:

Drawing-Collage-Painting-Sculpture-Fiber Art

Each time we complete a section in our book, it means that we have opened a new studio! When the book is finished, we will be ready to start CHOICE ART!

This is our Daily Routine in art class:
Routines are important in a choice art classroom. 

Today we are doing a drawing assessment activity. You will be drawing a whole person in your book. You will draw another person at the end of the school year to see how you have grown as an artist!  

Reflection/Share Time:
Who did you draw?
How did you choose the person you drew?
What did you draw first?