Week 4 in Review

K-2 DAILY "BELL WORK" FOR WEEK FOUR

All students will complete "bell work" at the start of each class before any other instructions are given.  As soon as students are seated, they are to immediately put pencil to paper and begin drawing the image projected before them;  no questions, no comments; no distractions.  

****(Kinder will begin doing bell work near the end of second quarter)

All attention is focused on looking carefully and recording what students SEE.

This is SILENT work time.  Students are working independently, although I often interject with some guidance and state simple parameters.  Students are graded primarily on their efforts and participation, not entirely on the outcome of their drawing.

After drawing, we have a brief class discussion to learn more about the artwork.  We make some guesses at to what the work may be about; what the story may be behind the work.  We THINK about how the artist used line, color, shapes, etc. to communicate meaning and emotion.  We discuss how we may not all respond to the art work in the same way.  

The final step in our Bell Work exercise is to ask ourselves more questions about the art work.  We WONDER what the artist intended to communicate.  This is where Ms. Northway may need to do some research to share what she learned about the artist and her/his life experiences.  

 I typically show students three artworks by the same artist.  In this way, they become familiar with the style of a particular artist, and often can recall the artist's name. All of the children's drawings will be glued into small weekly/bi-weekly books to bring home.

PLEASE KEEP YOUR CHILD'S WEEKLY BOOKS IN A SAFE PLACE (and ordered in a BIG 3 RING BINDER) SO YOU CAN SEE GROWTH THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.  

In recreating the painting below, students learned about the watercolor technique of "glazing"......and I illustrated this technique by comparing glazed donuts vs. frosted cake donuts.......thin watercolor paint vs. thick oil paint :)

Small pieced of watercolor paper were used to draw a simple pencil outline showing the boundaries of the contrasting colors and the shapes that are created. 

Helen Frankenthaler

Canyon (1965)

 
Image of  the Grand Canyon 

For the second work by Helen Frankenthaler, we used conte crayons in primary colors.  The red- oranges and yellow-oranges were created by blending yellow and red with a cotton swab. The darker value of blue was achieved by adding a layer of graphite on top of bright blue. 

Helen Frankenthaler

Orange Mood (1966)

Image of the Grand Canyon 

PROJECTS:  WEEK 4

After bell work, students will be using sketchbooks for more extensive, ongoing projects.

KINDER

Elements of Art - Line, Shape

• Discussion/Review of Shapes from our project last week.  
• Geometric Shapes
• Organic Shapes
• Story read aloud in class:  Henri's Scissors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9atTgTpUa4

• After reading the story, we learned how to draw a star on a small square piece of paper.
• These stars will be cut out this upcoming week and hung from the ceiling in the art studio and in the hallway.

FIRST

Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Color 

• Students are nearly finished with their Roman Mosaic Tiles. 
• These will be on display throughout the year as a border for our classroom bulletin boards. 

GRADE 2

Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Form, Value, Color, Texture, Space

Students continued to work on a small
"foldable" illustrating the 7 Elements of Art

Each second grade class was assigned a butterfly to draw using oil pastel--upcoming for week 5.

We chose the following butterflies: 

-  Pipevine Swallowtail

-  Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

-  Painted Lady

-  Monarch 

GRADE 3

Elements of Art - Line, Shape, Form, Value, Color, Texture, Space

Students continued to work on a small
"foldable" illustrating the 7 Elements of Art

• Students also began learning about:


• Blind contour drawing-- Observational drawing of hand 
• Continuous contour drawing -- Partner Portrait drawings

Upcoming -- Bellwork for Week 5:

Paul Gauguin  Tahitian Landscape (1891)

Paul Gauguin Fleurs dans un vase 

(Painted in 1886-1887 and 1893-1895)

Paul Gauguin

The Beautiful Angèle (1889)