K-6 ART
by Lori Meusch
February 19, 2010
We try to cover a variety of media and themes in Elementary Art, and we definitely have explored a wide variety this month. The Kindergarten class is discovering Modern artist Piet Mondrian and his use of simple shapes and colors to create art. The project involves a watercolor crayon resist in the primary and secondary colors. The first grade has begun a project on the study of pointillism and French artist Georges Seurat. Using finger paint, the students will create a work of art using dozens of dots. The second grade will soon complete portraits with crayon and a watercolor resist. They move on to a clay project in the form of a pinch pot.
Third grade is beginning work with clay in the form of a coil pot. We also shared a book entitled The Pot That Juan Built about coil constructed pots in a region in Mexico. Fourth and fifth grades have been introduced to many techniques of perspective drawing, which include overlapping, the size of shapes included, and the position of shapes on the page, color changes, the amount of detail included, and also converging lines to a vanishing point. It all sounds very intimidating, but on paper, the fourth and fifth grade students are reproducing one-point perspective buildings and landscapes. The sixth grade students are completing a realistic portrait with an unusual twist. As always we look forward to sharing our work.
