This week in art!

Photos from our creative plaster sculptures that are being made in our 3D Art Studio on Wednesday after school and Grade 5 groups planning and designing their collaborative Zentangle projects!  Both groups have going through steps of thoughtful planning and reflection in order to make progress and stay on track towards completing their goals.  3D art studio students have 3 classes left to finish their sculptures. Grade 5 students have been given the challenge of completing their group Zentangle in 3 art classes. Both are using timelines and planning sheets to keep track of the progress they make, problems they run into, and solutions they find along the way!

Keeping Track of where we are in our plaster sculptures. Organization and time management are very important when you have a time frame to complete a project! 

Many artists moved into the painting phase, while others in 3D art studio put final plaster details on and move into painting next week

Veeraswa showing off his shark fins attached with plaster this week

Grade 5 making sure everyone is involved

Zentangle Planning Sheet

Deciding on next steps and timeline for the best use of their class time in order to finish their plan in 3 classes!

This week in art!

What a busy week we've had in art! Enjoy your week long holiday and don't forget to seek out creativity everywhere you are! 

Writing on the window?!

Grade 5 has been practicing repetition (like grade 2 using patterns!) in unique and interesting ways through zentangle drawings.  Using intentionally repeated lines, shapes, and designs in detailed drawings students have been creating some incredible doodles! Ultimately they are brainstorming where they might want to showcase their skills for their final project with a specific purpose and place such an iPhone cover, shower curtain, tshirts or gallery spaces!  In art class to help start thinking outside the box with our project ideas we drew on the windows of the art room! Using watercolor crayons that can easily wash off with water (not like normal wax crayons that will ruin glass) students added designs to the windows of the art room working side by side, learning how to collaborate on a unified Art project. ( just remember not to try this at home unless you have the right supplies!!) be looking for a creative zentangle in a unique place brought to you by a group of fifth graders through the next few weeks! 

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

Grade 5 Zentangle in the works!

This week grade five joined the mural making madness on fifth floor with their Zentangle mural- a type of contemporary doodle art that resembles op art and in our case encourages high levels of collaboration!