First Projects!

September Update

Hello Families!
We are in full swing in the art room!  All of the classes are fully involved in their first projects.

Kindergarten is working on learning the Primary Colors.  The students have read the books Mouse Paint,  and Monsters Love Colors, as well as watching the OK Go Primary Colors video.  For the project the students used the 3 primary color markers to color on diffusing paper then we added water to watch the secondary colors mix and appear!  It was amazing!  We are currently working on our cutting and gluing skills to turn the tiedyed paper into color monsters.

First grade  is living the Cubist life!  They learned about the artist Pablo Picasso and his cubist style portraits.  They then played a dice game to make wacky mixed up portraits.  For the final project they are working XL to create a huge cubist style head and coloring in with chalk pastels in the Tertiary colors.  

Second grade has been tinkering and problem solving with our Robots!  We are lucky to have 8 new Ozobots in the art room, thanks to our Artsonia fundraising and the WT PTA!  The 2nd graders used them to kick off our robot unit.  They then worked on a writing component where they designed a robot that can adapt or change to do something helpful for us.  Each artist is designing their own special robot plans and illustrating what they would want in their own personal robot.  

Third grade has been working with the Japanese style of printmaking called Gyotaku.  They have used rubber fish to make fish prints and even gathered leaves from around WT to make nature prints.  Soon they will be cutting apart their prints and combining the two into one final nature print display. 

Fourth grade is working on drawing math forms from careful observation.  They learned about the artist Wayne Thiebaud and will be using their new observational drawing skills to draw a realistic cupcake!  

Fifth grade has been working on realistic bone sketches in the style of Leonardo DaVinci and living artist Nick Veasey.  Students are guided to research and learn about what is interesting to them.  They can then decide on composition and areas of focus in the true renaissance style of learning.  For the drawings students are using photocopies of the skeleton, drawing mannequin skeletons, and even real x rays for their observations.  

Artsonia Update!

We will again be using Artsonia as a digital online gallery at Wayne Thomas.  Please be on the lookout for a flyer coming home shortly explaining the process. If you have not given permissions for your student to participate in this wonderful private online resource, please consider it.  The students love being able to share their artwork with you!