Square 1 Art

Starting at a new school is great, the excitement about art is high and raising excitement is made easy for me, as we are starting a program called Square 1 art.  It allows students to create artwork that can be made into products for family and friends.  Each grade level creates an artwork that is similar in style, but with varying degrees of difficulty.  The artwork is sent to the company, scanned and printed into a sheet of stickers.  The stickers are sent back and the students get to keep them!  The sticker form contains an order number to get their work printed on everything from coffee mugs to ipad cases. Here are a few examples we are working with at Cedar Creek.

5th graders created a name grid.  A name grid is a visual way of describing a person.  They filled three boxes with visual representations of themselves and one box filled with their name written in a creative way.  Students learned that sometimes part of the border can be cut off on the printer so they made a creative border to fill that additional space.

 

First grade created a self portrait using some shapes for the face, adding color and line in the background.

Pointillism

Third graders have been learning their Warm and Cool colors, they are applying the concept of warm and cool colors to their pointillism project. They are also using their knowledge of foreground, background, and horizon line to complete their pointillist work.

We studied the work of George Seurat and his pointillism (dot painting) 

Students drew a tree, and chose either warm or cool colors to create a pointillist amount of leaves.

They used the back end of the brush to create dots in the leaves.

 

After allowing a day to dry the art, students began drawing a horizon line, small details in the background and at least one detail in the foreground.

Shooting Stars

Kindergarten students learned to make 4 different types of lines this week, practicing their neat coloring and even painting with watercolor! I was really impressed with their ability to follow directions and paint with watercolor!

Students used crayons and traced their shooting star on watercolor paper, they then followed along with me on the smartboard, practicing straight, bumpy, zig-zag, and loop de loop lines.These lines would create a tail on their shooting star.

 

During our second class, we went over painting procedures and learned how to activate the watercolor. Students painted over their crayon lines and it created a wax resist, not allowing any paint to cover the dark crayon lines.