Fifth Grade did some printmaking. They made collographs and mixed tints to add depth to their artwork. Students began by making their 8" x 8" plate out of a variety of textured materials (corrugated cardboard, fun foam, shelf liner, yarn, bubble wrap...). It could be some sort of scene, random shapes, whatever they wanted to create. The first week of printing, students chose their color and moved to that station. I had 7 station set up around the room. Each student ("master printer") had an "apprentice" to work with them. They used a registration plate I created, to set their inked plate (marked with the top) on and then placed their paper on that to print. The apprentice took this to the drying rack while the printer began a second print. Students made 3 prints of their plate and then switched roles. It was fantastic to see the teamwork and how they helped each other remember all the steps they had been shown. The next week students pulled out their 2 best prints for the next step. This left one of original of what their plate looked like. They numbered the back of the remaining prints with a "1" at the top, rotate 90 degrees and mark it "2", rotate 90 degrees again and mark it "3". This day they worked with their "apprentice", mixed a tint of their color and printed with "2" at the top. The third printing on side "3 was done with the lightest tint. The result was an edition of 2 prints where the focus of the art became the texture and depth created with value rather than what the original picture was. These turned out beautiful! Way to go my fabulous fifth graders!
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Second grade students painted two squares of paper; one in warm colors and one in cool colors. Next they added a snowman with geometric shapes to the cool paper and a melting snowman with an organic shape to the warm paper. They added details, then glued their papers to a blue background and then decorated the frame with white tempera paint.
Fourth grade students learned about the Pop Art of Andy Warhol and how he loved to experiment with ways of making art. They looked at some of Warhol's serigraphy and we also discussed positive/negative space. I was so excited to be in a classroom this year, so I could teach students about the process of screen printing. Students designed stencils and used complementary colors of paper for printing. They printed the negative stencil first and the next week printed the positive stencil. The last week they chose their best prints, cut them out and then glued them to a background. The art room was filled with excitement and mess! I taught students to wash their screen when they were done and then clean up their areas. Everyone was on task in the midst of all the chaos. We used embroidery hoops for screen frames, silk screen material, crescent board for squeegees and newsprint for stencils. The newsprint stuck to the screen after the first pass of ink and students printed 4 times with each stencils.
Kindergarten used cups and black paint to print overlapping circles. Students enthusiastically printed their papers with black circles! We were trying to make some overlap without filling our paper with too many. The next week, we watched the OK Go video about mixing secondary colors. It was my hope that students would paint (tempera cakes) some primary colors inside the shapes and sometimes mix secondary colors to paint inside. This proved to be a struggle for most. A few decided they would rather just paint all of them brown, and it caught on like wild fire in one of my classes! This class was given primary crayons to color the rest of their shapes and I was happy with how they were shaping up...we just had too much brown already painted. My other class switched to just painting the primary colors. We also had trouble with students using too much water and that caused black to mix in with their colors. Love the concept and will learn from our experimenting for an improved lesson next year!
One of my fifth grade classes created Notan artwork this year. We were learning about positive/negative space and balance.
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Mrs. Kendell
I was a graphic designer for many years, and then decided to make the leap into art education. I taught elementary art for 8 years. Archives
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