St. John's first grade art created minions using cut paper. Students cut out their large minion base from yellow paper for the body, then added details using multiple colors. It was great to see how many different kinds of minions were created using many different types of techniques!
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At St. James we are currently working on K-6 Original Artworks Fundraiser! Students in all grades create artwork which can then be purchased by parents, family, and friends on products like coffee mugs, bags, and jewelry. It's a great way to support the Arts and St. James School! Kindergarten and First Grade Jim Dine Hearts
Kindergarten and 1st grade have begun the year learning a little about the Elements and Principals of Art. The very basic foundations of art are line and color. We began the year talking about color, what colors we know then moving into the primary and secondary colors. Primary colors are red, yellow, and blue. We learned that these colors cannot be made by mixing paints, we must start with these colors in order to mix to get secondary colors. The secondary colors are orange, green, and purple. In later lessons we discussed how red, yellow, and orange are warm colors as well, and green, purple, and blue are cool colors. Lots of color learning! Color Wheels and Color mixingLines, lines, lines!We spoke about how important color is in art, and right along with color is lines. Lines show space, shape, volume, and more. We see lines all around us! Students looked around the art room and found lines on the fans, decorations, vents, etc. We talked about zig-zag lines, waves, horizontal, vertical, spirals and then came up with our own kinds of lines. We practiced drawing lines first then during our next class we constructed line sculptures by folding construction paper into some of the lines we drew. Our bases are actually mat board for picture frames, generously donated n various sizes by Frame to Please in Endicott, thank you so much! -Mrs. GilliganWe are now entering our second full week of school! Lots of big plans underway among all of the art classes. The elementary schools are working on collaborative murals featuring individual artwork combined to make a single mural. We are hoping to have these be a feature at our Curriculum Nights. We are already planning for holiday art, concerts, district wide art show, City Hall Art Show, and more. Art curriculum's are usually very fluid due to school needs for holidays and events so please be patient with us, we may bounce from project to event projects and back again. We try to get as much student artwork home as quickly as we can but we need to keep a good amount for displays. Throughout the year students will generally complete about 7-10 art projects with smaller practice work in between to build up skills and technique. We see students for about 30 minutes each class, with 15 minutes of art time (coming in routines, seating, instruction, work time, then cleaning up and lining up). It takes quite a bit of time to complete full artwork, but after displaying and especially at the end of the year all artwork will be returned to their classrooms for students to take home.
We can't wait to see all of the amazing hard work students put into their artwork this year and getting to know new students! Welcome back to art and lets have a great year! We are currently in the process of working with Seton Catholic Central High School to purchase a kiln for next year. In preparation for this change in our curriculum we are having students create sculptures with Plasticine, an oil-based clay that does not dry. This will also be available to students from now on for their 'free time' after and in between assignments while we wait for the rest of the class to catch up. The clay is harder then Playdoh consistency and as such is a great exercise in hand strength and fine motor skills.
First grade students were instructed to initially create Leprechauns, in their own vision. Students added hats if they thought that Leprechauns would wear hats. After all of the students created their Leprechauns they were able to free create. They came up with lots of great ideas! Kindergarten and 1st grade students at All Saints began finishing up their Kandinsky circles today! They will be going home next class. We began working on this pastel drawings many weeks ago however the weather and mid-winter break got in the way, but we're excited to get back to them now! Kandinsky is a great artist to study when learning that anyone can do art. Students folded their papers in half three times to make the rectangles they will draw their circles in. We then began making dots in each rectangle in different colors, later adding more rings before coloring the backgrounds. St. James first grade students learned about the artist Miro while creating creature rough drafts which we then translated into a finished drawing. We will be painting these next class using the wax resist technique. We examined Miro's use of shape and line, students also learned a new vocabulary word, 'organic shape'! Many of Miro's shapes are constructed from organic lines. We viewed a PowerPoint of an assortment of his work then began creating our sketches using Miro's style but our own imaginations!
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