3rd Grade Art 2015-16
All classes began the art year reviewing the Art Standards and how they help us create our art. They are:
Looking-Seeing things and understanding
Thinking-Envisioning, wondering, reflecting, and critiquing
Connecting-Making it personal-transferring what they know to make art relevant to them
We also talked about what inspires them to make art. Below are some of the things that they came up with.
All classes began the art year reviewing the Art Standards and how they help us create our art. They are:
Looking-Seeing things and understanding
Thinking-Envisioning, wondering, reflecting, and critiquing
Connecting-Making it personal-transferring what they know to make art relevant to them
We also talked about what inspires them to make art. Below are some of the things that they came up with.
Green Star School Recycling comes to the art room
Cup Weaving!
Bringing awareness to the importance of being mindful of using our resources to their utmost, we created a weaving project that fits in perfectly with our Green Star School status when making this project in third grade. Although I bought new and clean cups for this project, and talked about how we could do the same at home with thoroughly washed plastic cups, we were of the mindset that we were helping to save our environment. Though a bit tricky to start with, once everyone got the idea, these were really fun to make. I have included the directions should they want to try this at home. After they were finished with the weaving, they were to come up with their own special finishing touches. It was fun to see their creativity bloom here.
Cup Weaving!
Bringing awareness to the importance of being mindful of using our resources to their utmost, we created a weaving project that fits in perfectly with our Green Star School status when making this project in third grade. Although I bought new and clean cups for this project, and talked about how we could do the same at home with thoroughly washed plastic cups, we were of the mindset that we were helping to save our environment. Though a bit tricky to start with, once everyone got the idea, these were really fun to make. I have included the directions should they want to try this at home. After they were finished with the weaving, they were to come up with their own special finishing touches. It was fun to see their creativity bloom here.
Wayne Theibaud
Third grade revisited the art of Wayne Theibaud again this year. It was so popular last year that we decided to do it for this group of 3rd graders as well. Through these paintings the students learned about color and color values. They practiced making value with pencil first and then graduated to mixing white into their chosen colors to create the lighter versions of that hue, or creating "tints" of that color. Scoops of ice cream sounded delicious to us and followed the theme of sweets that Wayne Theibaud was so taken with in his work.
Third grade revisited the art of Wayne Theibaud again this year. It was so popular last year that we decided to do it for this group of 3rd graders as well. Through these paintings the students learned about color and color values. They practiced making value with pencil first and then graduated to mixing white into their chosen colors to create the lighter versions of that hue, or creating "tints" of that color. Scoops of ice cream sounded delicious to us and followed the theme of sweets that Wayne Theibaud was so taken with in his work.
3rd Grade Art 2014-15
Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life was the inspiration for these tooled metal works of art.
Wayne Thiebaud is an artist that enjoyed painting and drawing works of art of food. After viewing some of thee works, we decided to do these paintings of ice cream cones and use what was learned about value in color (the light to dark scale of color).
The art style called Pointillism, developed by artist Georges Seurat, brought third graders a whole new way of looking at and making art. This style was created because Seurat was an artist and scientist. He wanted to show the world a different way of mixing color-with one's eyes-rather than with a paint brush. So he put dots of color or "points of color" side by side that, when viewed from a distance, made the eye tell the brain to mix the colors. See how the 3rd graders experimented with this when they drew a simple object and then "colored" it using the art technique of Pointillism. Below are their mini-masterpieces.
One of the focuses in Third Grade art this year is color. One of the most recent projects that they did was a weaving showing what they had learned about the order of color on our Color Wheel, or the "Rainbow Order" of color.
Whimsical Art and the art of artist Laurel Burch
Third graders have started this year learning about "whimsical" art through learning about the artist Laurel Burch. (I found these images of her and her work on Google) They learned of her humble beginnings as an artist without much money and how her career developed and blossomed into a very successful one. They also learned that her art helped her to overcome many of life's troubles including pain. Through her art she was able to leave those troubles behind while she painted her whimsical animals. For those of you who don't know of this artist, her are a few of her pieces of art as well as a picture of her.
Third graders have started this year learning about "whimsical" art through learning about the artist Laurel Burch. (I found these images of her and her work on Google) They learned of her humble beginnings as an artist without much money and how her career developed and blossomed into a very successful one. They also learned that her art helped her to overcome many of life's troubles including pain. Through her art she was able to leave those troubles behind while she painted her whimsical animals. For those of you who don't know of this artist, her are a few of her pieces of art as well as a picture of her.
Below are some examples of what 3rd graders did for their "whimsical animals" for their KidzArt project this year.
3rd graders have been exploring color in art this year. The project below was created after a portrait study, learning how to draw people's faces. Proportion, and placement were some of the things that they worked with as they did their drawings. then for fun, we added color. They used what they learned about warm and cool colors, making either the background or portrait one or the other. They had fun with the abstract feel of what these became.
A different approach to weaving-creating a simple weaving using a variety of materials to make a free-form decorative piece to hang on the wall rather than a functional work.
A lesson about the pottery of the Native American Southwest was a good connection for the 3rd graders while they were learning about geography of the U.S. So many connections were involved-the land itself and what it gave these people who were rich with creativity and good use of the land, where they are in relation to Colorado, and of course how coil pottery is made.
Monoprinting proved to be a big hit!! Using recycled grocery store trays, the students were able to paint directly onto them and lift beautiful prints! You can see the process below.