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We’re off to a great start in art. We’ve already broken in the new markers, crayons, paint AND oil pastels!
In first grade we made a “Giant Me” and decorated the art room with lots of 1st graders. We’ve also learned about warm and cool colors and made a sailboat painting using warm colors for the sky and cool colors for the water.
In Second Grade we are studying The Masters. We have reviewed facial proportions and learned to use overlapping to create a family portrait. We used strings to paint our family’s…it is VERY hard to paint an accurate face using a piece of string. We have fantastic family portraits. Painting with string gives the splatter effect is similar to the work of Jackson Pollack and we will continue with a study of Pollack followed by Andy Warhol.
We continue the study of The Masters in Third Grade. We’ve started with Marc Chagall, an artist famous for saying “Great art begins where nature ends.” We’ve discussed God’s beautiful creation and that, though there is no end to His ability, we sometimes add to what we see in our artwork. We’ve made a drawing of our houses, the sun (complete with a smile) and ourselves holding something we love. In line with Chagall’s idea20of putting a little twist on nature, we have drawn them all facing different directions and with dream-like colors.
The Fourth Grade has begun a study of the different styles of art. We’ve started with Surrealism and one of the artist in that movement named, Frida Kahlo. Kahlo is a Mexican artist who struggled with her love of her homeland and the luxuries of life in America. Her self portrait is surreal in that she includes an exaggerated view of both Mexico and America. We’ve created our own self portrait and included our sometimes unrealistic view of our circumstances around us.
Fifth Graders are learning the Principles of Design this year: balance, contrast, movement, emphasis, pattern, rhythm and unity. The principles are tied in with famous painters and their work. Paul Klee is famous for his painting called “Sinbad and the Sailor”. We’ve started by creating a 1” grid (very difficult to get all of those lines straight) and added our own boat and fish. We will complete these with watercolor. This painting is an example of contrast, balance and pattern. 

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