Radial name designs

5th grade artist studied radial balance and radial symmetry. We looked at nature to find examples in things like flowers, starfish and eyes. We found radial symmetry and balance and human-made objects like wheels and fans. We also looked at the rose window in Notre Dame and Tibetan monks' sand mandalas as inspiration for our radial artwork. We used our names, reflected and rotated radially around a center axis, to create an abstract radial design. Upon completion, we wrote an artist statement about our work, addressing common core standards for literacy, explaining the process of creating our art, explaining our choice of lettering styles and colors and then reflecting on successes and areas for improvement in our work. The results are pretty cool!

Curriculum Night Art handout

First grade Name-ish Art

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Third grade abstract names

Third grade artists reviewed the difference between line and shape. We learned about composition as the arrangement of objects within a frame. As visual artists there area many ways to arrange a drawing's composition. We came up with there different compositions using overlapping letters in our names. We then chose the strongest composition and enlarged it unto black paper. After learning about warm and cool colors, we picked either warm or cool colors and blended them together to create our abstract compositions.

2nd grade abstract names

Second grade artists learned about the difference between lines and shapes. Lines start and stop at two different points. Shapes are closed because they start and stop at the same point. Using the lines from only our names, we created shapes by overlapping our names. We wrote our names in many different sizes and directions, taking care that each new name overlapped an old name. We then colored in the shapes we found.

Kindergarten Line Art

Kindergarten Artists learned about lines in their first day of Art class. We looked at photos of buildings, roller coasters, oceans, animals and flowers and found different line types in each image. We then practiced drawing each type of line. First, we drew in pencil, then we traced our lines in sharpie and then we traced again using colored markers!

OPEF base camp mural 2014

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