First Projects of the year!

We are beginning our first projects of the new school year this week!  
Each grade level will be introduced to a new artist or art form to guide their learning.

Kindergarten: The students are learning about the primary and secondary colors.  They will be reading many books about color and seeing the artwork of Alma Woodsey Thomas.

1st grade :The students are learning about Cubism and the artists Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro.  We are also learning about the intermediate colors.

2nd grade: The students are learning about the artist Paul Cezanne and Janet Fish and will be looking closely at still life paintings.  We will be using the NGAKids app on the iPads to construct some fun compositions and then work on improving our drawing from observation skills.

3rd grade: The students learned about the Japanese art of Gyotaku.  We then worked on understanding and identifying the different parts of a fish. We will begin making our own nature prints in the coming weeks. 

4th grade: The students are learning about drawing forms from observation.  We will be looking at the artwork of Wayne Thiebaud to guide our own artwork in the coming weeks.

5th grade: The students will be choosing a favorite artist and artwork to recreate in a miniature painting.  We will be discussing how a change in perspective (size) changes the way an artwork is received by the viewer.