4th grade Dubuffet sculptures

4th graders looked at the art and life of Jean Dubuffet. He was interested in the artwork of children. He watched in wonder as untrained artists satisfied their urge to just create. He was called a "brut" or raw artist, as his work was rather primitive. He has a sculpture that most students had seen in downtown chicago. We created about five organic shapes, outlined them in marker and then chose only two colors for our sculptures to create unity. This was a new project this year, and I think the results are great!

First grade stories and illustrations

Kindegarten Winter Landscape paintings

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Third grade notan designs

Third graders studied positive and negative space in art. We learned that notan is a balance of light and dark or positive and negative space in art. Some students chose to incorporate hearts for valentine's day and at the end of the project, students used black pens to add contrast and pattern to their work.

Second grade angry birds

Second grade created clay angry birds. First we created a simple clay pinch pot. We then discussed forms-cones, spheres and cubes. We created these forms out of clay. We also learned about additive and subtractive sculpture as we added details to our birds.

Third grade expressive self portraits

Third grade artists looked at the life and artwork of Modigliani. He was involved in expressionism and didn't paint exactly what he saw; rather he painted how he felt. His portraits were often distorted and his colors weren't always realistic. Our self portraits attempt to follow in his footsteps. We first drew in pencils, then we outlined our drawings with white glue and then when the glue was dried, we added color by blending analaguous colors in chalk pastels.

Focal point drawings

5th grade artists learned how create a focal point, or center of interest, in their composition. We began by drawing a focal point and adding leading lines that guided eyes towards our focal point. We added overlapping objects, pattern and texture. Then lastly, using ebony pencils and blending stumps, we added high contrast our focal point and the area around it. We then used value (lights and darks) to add interest to our work but were careful not to over power our focal point.