Time is ticking Away

The proud grade 1 artists have finished there clock collages this week inspired by Henri Matisse showing where they are in place and time. Look out for their work that will be displayed soon on their floor.

Look for an artist you know on display on a floor near you!

This year we've decided to display each project throughout the school once it is finished in the art room. With so much space at this new school, every masterpiece in each grade will be able to hang at the same time! 

Today the grade two healthy habit collages and grade four printmaking self-portrait posters were hung on second and fourth floors around the learning spaces. Artists: Find your piece and look for inspiration in others! Be sure to point out your art to family and friends.  

Grade 2: Splish Splash and Fun in the Sun!

We have just started a new unit of art exploration using natural forces on earth in our artwork.  Just as we are beginning to see and learn in our classroom, the earth is always changing due to natural forces such as erosion.  Well changes can also happen in the art room due to these forces! The past few classes we have observed how water can affect the appearance of certain materials, while others will remain the same.  We got to work with new materials: watercolor crayons and watercolor-colored-pencils! (say that 5 times fast :) ).  We used charts in our sketchbooks to make predictions, gather data, and learn about some of the materials we use often in the art room.

This week we got to have some fun in the sun!  Using special paper that is sensitive to sun we created solar prints by placing objects on the paper in the bright hot sunlight for about five minutes. The paper magically turned white and we dunked our pages in water to stop the sensitivity of the paper from fading our prints. (water at work again!) We watched as the paper slowly turned back to blue, leaving the shape of our objects as white prints on the paper. Too cool!

"I was surprised that the sun can make a art with a special paper" -JooHee 

Printmaking Unit: Grade 4

In 4th grade we learned how to print on a paper by using a styrofoam stamp.

These are the steps.    

1.  First, we drew a picture of our selfs.
2. Then, we traced our styrofoam in our sketch book, so we know what the size is.
3. In the rectangle we drew our self-portrait again (the right size)
4.  Labeled two pages of our sketchbook and wrote "practice print" and "placing print"
5. We printed in our sketchbooks: using ink, brayers, and the ink plates
6. Then we started on our final poster after our practice prints
7. Then we printed on our sketchbook covers
8. We printed our self portrait three times on our posters with three different colors (with choices of 5 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue) 
9. We wore aprons and got our art brains to work
10. On the last day we had a free printing day 

Vinay: I think this project was fun because I like getting messy. I like how I got to put the picture of my self on the front cover of my sketchbook. 

Nina: I thought this project was exciting to learn how to print.  I thought at the end everything looked really pretty: our posters and our sketchbooks. 

Aarushi: It was a wonderful way to put our art brains to work!

Kennedy: It was so fun I'm speechless. 

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Zentangle Reflection

Fifth grade had just currently finished their unit of Zentangles. We learned that a Zentangle is a drawing style that has many shapes and designs in it that repeat, it is usually around a shape. We started our unit by drawing a Zentangle on our sketch book covers. We were divided into 4 groups and each group created a poster, in the middle there was a big peace sign. Around it was a Zentangle created by our group members! We all could not wait until we would start drawing on the mural. Before that our teacher painted each of our hands blue, so we could make handprints on the mural. After that we designed Zentangles around our own handprints and later we were allowed to design others.

Seoyeon:I felt really excited to do this fun project because drawing the Zentangle were awesome to draw many shapes with black and white. I really enjoyed this project!!

Enen: I thought that it was fun and challenging because we got to design our own creations! I really loved the mural!

Amelie: This unit was challenging for but also fun. I learned how to draw new designs and how it feels when some other people add and edit your work.

We really enjoyed this unit!

 By: Enen, Seoyeon and Amelie in 5C