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2nd graders are DRAWING Portraits FROM OBSERVATION with realistic facial proportions!! :)

Sketchbook Cover Name Design!

Students began the year with an ELEMENTS OF ART REVIEW and SKETCHBOOK COVER NAME DESIGN!  Students utilized Elements of Art!:

-Line   (variation)

-Shape (pattern and space)

-Color (Mixing and blending)

-Value (Gradients tints and Shades)

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Sketchbooks will be used through the year for planning worksheets, Artist statements, sketching, and preliminary sketches!

Primary Color, Blending,  Value Changes, and Paint tin Use Review!

-2nd Grade Student artists will discuss the Guatemalan Tradition of using a worry doll to wish away their worries.

-Students will discuss the tradition in which children tell one worry to each doll before they go to sleep and it “takes their worries away”

-Students will identify a Legend as a story that is told and passed down through time but may not be real.

-Students will identify Facial expressions within the worry dolls and decide on a mood for their own worry doll based on the worry it will be taking from them.

- Students will discuss patterns and traditional Guatemalan Worry Doll Textiles and fabrics within their clothing.

- Students will identify clay techniques and drying processes before using techniques to sculpt a worry doll.

-Students will identify and use forms within a Worry Doll Finger Puppet they sculpt from clay.

- Students will Paint a realistic skin tone and facial expression on their worry doll.

-Students will observe, analyze and discuss woven textiles, the weaving process, and the reasons we are using brightly colored cloth and yarn for our worry doll.

-Students will use Textiles, Yarn, and fabric scraps to design a Guatemalan inspired outfit for their doll based on Traditional Guatemalan Woven Clothing using contrasting or analogous color schemes.

Clay sculpted, Painted, and Textile wrapped Worry Dolls- Inspired by the Guatemalan Tradition and Woven clothing Style

2017-2018 School year

2nd Grade Joan Miro  Inspired Line Variation Creatures!

-2nd Grade Student artists will discuss Mondrian’s process and use of Line Variation and black lines to create creatures and unique compositions. 

-Students will discuss the backgrounds of Mondrian’s work and identify Warm, Cool, and Neutral Color Schemes. 

-Students will paint a warm, cool or neutral background using water color and salt. 

-Students will paint a black line variation creature and fill in the identified geometric and organic shapes created within.

Students are starting their year off by learning about and practicing Art Classroom Routines and ROAR expectations!  We all have made a Name Tag- Sketchbook that we will use throughout the year to brainstorm and plan our CREATIONS! The sketchbook shows our name and symbols that represent ourself! We will add to our sketchbook covers throughout the school year as we learn more about expressing ourself through art!

Happy New School YEAR!

2nd Grade Clay Coil Pots!

2nd Grade Artists are utilizing Hand Building Techniques, Slab Rolling, and Scoring and Slipping to Build a Coil Pot!  Students used many different Coil Building Tehcniques, Lines, and Contrasting Colors on the Inside and outside of the coil pot!

 2nd Grade Strange Still Life- Landscapes! 

 

 2nd Grade Aritsts will LEarn about Landscapes andStill Lifes in this Project!  We will complete an Observational Drawing from an Object of our choice within the ArTROOM!  

 

We have the option of Drawing from looking at Our choice of the following objects:

 Fruit Bowls, Flower Vases, animal figurines, human figurines, dinosaur figures, art materials, soup cans, shells, plants, and more!   

 

Our background will be a painted Value Scale Landscape in which we use our newly learned knowledge of a value scale, tints and shades, light sources, and horizon lines to paint a monochromatic sky and a monochromatic ground or sea! 

 

Stay tuned and look at our creative process page to see our work! 

 

2nd Grade Frank Stella Inspired Paper Sculpture!

 

Students are discussing, reveiwing and utilizing their art concepts of Shape, Line, Color, Pattern and FORM through a unit inspired by Contemporary Artist Frank Stella! Students will create a mixed media sculpture with paper, pastel, colored pencils, chip board, paper, and paint!

2nd Graders are Practicing using a variety of lines and geometric and organic shapes to create a FRANK STELLA inspired artwork!

Students are starting their year off by learning about Art Classroom Routines!  We all have made a Name Tag- Sketchbook that we will use throughout the year to brainstorm and plan our CREATIONS!

Press Play  for a quick reminder of "Why the Arts?!"

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