3rd grade 3-D

Kinder self portraits

Kindergarten artists looked at the self portraits of MC Escher, Frida Kahlo and and Vincent Van Gogh. We noticed how they looked, but also what they were wearing, what they were holding and what was in the background. All of these details provided us with clues as to what these artists liked to do. Using mirrors to help us draw from observation, we drew ourselves over the course of two weeks. Around the perimeter of our drawings we added some text about our families and things we liked. Some students chose to add texture to their hair with yarn.

2nd grade OPEF lego project

In coordination with Oak Park Education Foundation, students in second grade art reviewed what they had learned in their home rooms: types of communities-urban, suburban and rural. We discussed what the similarities and differences are between the three communities in terms of population, housing and land use. Students worked in groups of two or three and chose to build a a building from either urban, suburban or a rural area. Afterwards, we photographed all of the projects, because they were going back into lego buckets and took colored photographs and created a gain lego city, lego suburb and rural lego ville by drawing roads, trees and cars in our communities.

5th grade relief sculptures

Fifth grade artists looked at and learned about relief sculptures. They are more than two-dimensional and not quite three-dimensional. Students dubbed them "2.5-D". We created ours out clay coils. Our designs feature asymmetry, analaguous colors. We added our analaguous (neighbors on the color wheel) colors with crayon and painted over everything, in a resist technique, with watery blank tempera paint.

Kinder Dia de Los Muertos

First grade printmaking

First grade grade landscapes

Learning about Grant Wood's landscapes, first grade artists created landscapes with a foreground, middle ground and background. We watched a how to video on drawing a haunted house. We then embellished our drawings so they are all different. We used crayons and watercolors.