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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!

2017-2018 School year

Students will discuss the theme of Dandelion Regeneration and Wishes for our New School’s Fountain sculpture!  Students will discuss the use of mood, imagery, and sensory words, rhyming, alliteration, and personification within a Poem about a dandelion.  Students will write a poem about a dandelion in the Stage they are most inspired by: a Bud, a seed, a flower in full bloom, a weed, a seed head, or the process of seeds being wished away of blowing in the wind.  Students will utilize their poem to create a mixed media, water color painting, fine line pen, fabric, wallpaper, yarn, foam, felt, and more collage inspired by their poem! Students will utilize these materials to create realistic texture and color by using their observational drawing practice and techniques.  Students will then decide on final composition, unity, font, and color scheme for their poem to collage with their artwork! 

Creative Color Wheel Composition

Primary and Secondary Colors

-3rd Grade Student artists will discuss the use of a color wheel to find color schemes, primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary Colors.

-Students will discuss unique color wheel compositions containing 6 parts for secondary and primary colors.

-Students will create a personally inspired theme to create a unique Color Wheel Composition.

-Students will use only Primary Colors to paint the primary and secondary colors within their color wheel.

-Students will add oil pastel details to complete their Color Wheel Composition Design.

3rd Grade Textured Hands with the Elements of Art

-3rd Grade Student artists will identify, explore, and experiment with the Elements of Art- Line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and space. 

-Students will create Space and form through painting a value scale within a hand drawing and in the background.

-Students will use contrasting colors and decide on a unique hand composition.

-Students will then utilize varied repeating shapes and lines to create unique textures.

Happy New School YEAR!

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!

3rd Grade Kimmy  Cantrell and Cubist Inspired Abstract Portrait Free Standing Sculptures

Students utilized:

Assymetry

Contrasting Colors

Water color Resist

Cool and Warm Color Schemes

Different Perspectives

Geometric Shapes

Facial Expressions

Facial Features

Patterns

Implied Wood Texture


3rd Grade Metallic Landscape and Symbol Low Relief

3rd Grade Students will Learn about the use of Symbols to create meaning in different cultures through this artwork!  We will also use glue drawn line to draw a landscape or seascape! Students will use their knowledge of one point perspetive in a new way to create realisitc space in our landscapes with a bridge, a path, a road, a river, etc!

We will use Metallic paint to create a metal caste look to our low relief!

 

Our inspiration in this project is our favorite part of Nature, African, Egyptian and Adinkra Symbols, and low Reliefs on Egyptian walls which show both symbols and raised drawings with lines and shapes!

3rd Graders are Reviewing and Learning about the Elements of Art This week and Practicing 1 Point Perspective for our upcoming unit!

-In this unit we will use shapes, line, one point perspective and value to create space.

-We will use value to turn shapes into forms and to watercolor a value scale background.

-We will use shape and line to creat 3d Op Art Inspired shapes as well.

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! 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!

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

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