K-6 ART
by Lori Meusch
April 27, 2010
Spring is definitely a time for fun and flowers, and in Art, K-6 students have enjoyed both in the last month. Kindergarten is completing a project based on the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. First graders are now completing their own representation of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers and will be moving on to a study of the Latin art of bark painting. The Latin culture has a tradition of painting very bright and beautiful nature scenes on tree bark, and the first grade will complete their own representation of this colorful work. Second grade is working a watercolor resist garden scene. They will be reviewing the color wheel and mixing the secondary colors on paper. The third grade class will be reintroduced to the terms value, gradation, overlap, shape, geometric, organic, irregular, and color. They will be working with pastels to create a work that transfers simple shapes into 3-D objects. Fourth grade is doing an exciting project involving multicultural masks. Each student is designing their own paper mache mask. Fifth grade has studied the work of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her husband and muralist Diego Rivera. Kahlo's expressive work incorporated much of her personal life in her paintings. Her physical condition forced her to learn to draw and paint lying down, so the fifth grade students are not allowed to sit formally at their desks to draw. They are scattered on the floor or are using slates in their lap to complete a self portrait. Finally sixth grade is working on two point perspective buildings.
