In the Art Room - November 18th - 22nd

Kindergarten
Kindergarten students continue their Unit on Shapes by creating shape dragons to protect the castles that they have just finished! We mix yellow and blue together  to make green paint and use bubble wrap to print green dots on green paper to create dragon skin! Then, we will use our dragon skin paper to cut out shapes to make our dragons! 

1st Grade

First graders continue making houses and buildings, designing them just like an architect! We made our own "blueprints" by stamping white paint lines using cereal box cardboard strips. We also printed black lines on white paper and stamped out another house. We colored that one with colored pencils and used chalk pastels for the sky and grass! This week we paint a colorful village with a watercolor and neon oil pastel resist technique and move onto cityscapes at night!

2nd grade

Egyptian landscapes and finishing up this week! Pyramids and camels have been cut out (wow! We sure had a scissor skill workout this week while we cut out our camels! ) and glued down to our beautiful dessert landscape. We are now going back to France to take a look at the work of the artist, Henri Rousseau and his fantastic jungles! Roar!

3rd grade

Kusama pumpkins are mostly finished! We have been working so hard on them! We are taking a short break from the dot craziness for those extra careful artists to look at the Rose Windows from the Notre Dame Cathedral. We are thankful that they are still safe and intact after the fire that raged through the cathedral in April of this year! We will be using diffusing art paper to make a radial design that will then be painted with watercolors.  

4th grade
Printmaking our cityscapes continues! Students finished their watercolor backgrounds and are now designing their own cities. This week city drawings will be transferred to a piece of styrofoam that will be used to learn the printmaking process. Foam cities will be inked and printed onto their sky section of their watercolor paper. We will fold the paper in half so the city then transferred to the water part for the reflection! Students will also be introduced to the artist James Rizzi and see how he transforms cityscapes into cities that are alive! 

5th grade

Fifth graders were introduced to the art of Roy Lichtenstein this past week. We observed how he looked at the practical art and comic book art around him and raised it to the realm of High Art. We learned about Ben-Day Dots and why he used dots in his own work. We will be drawing comic book versions of ourselves focusing on what our facial features look like when we show different emotions! 

6th grade

African Animal portraits are coming to an end! Those students that are still not done will have time to work on it in the future, but it is time to move onto a new lesson! Students will be looking at the work of folk artist Heather Galler. She paints beautifully designed works of art using bold shapes and designs that are both inviting and unique! We are using bingo daubers filled with India ink to draw our designs! Neon oil pastels and watercolors will be used to paint these cheerful compositions. These works of art will be entered in the Points of Light Mini Mural project that North Schuylkill and the Walk in Art Center in Schuylkill Haven are working on this year! More information to come!