Our students have had the honor of participating in the Winter Garden of Youth Art Exhibit sponsored by the Aurora Public Art Commission for the last several years. Each school may select five pieces of art to hang in the show. That means out of all the projects completed through early December by around 850 students at Hermes, only five are chosen for the show! This year I had four students (my Hermes colleague chose an additional student from her classes). The artwork is mounted and displayed in the Gallery at the David L. Pierce Art and History Center. Students are invited to the Opening Reception which includes refreshments! The artwork will be on display until Jan. 23, 2016. Congratulations to our Hermes representatives!
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5th grade studied the Mexican folk art of carved alebrijes from Oaxaca. These imaginary animals are carved from the trees that grow in the mountains, and then painted with bright colors and patterns. The students had the challenge of drawing their animal (amphibian, or bird) to fill the page, and then create pattern with lines and shapes. Once their animal was filled with patterns, they painted color patterns using tempera cakes. They cut out their animals, chose a background which would compliment the animal and attach foam spacers to give their animal a bit of a 3-dimensional illusion. They did a fantastic job with their art!
4th grade was working on the difference between organic shapes and geometric shapes. They looked at the art of Reggie Laurent and had a great time imagining what all the organic shapes looked like in his artwork. They went to work making their own organic shapes with construction paper, and once they had a nice balance and variety of organic, they added geometric shapes. When their paper was full, they added lines with white oil pastel. Some of the shapes also contain patterns created with colored oil pastels. It took a little longer than I thought it would to cut all the shapes, but the students were 100% engages and the results are stunning.
First grade is learning about the color wheel. They had so much fun drawing their wacky birds! They used primary colors of watercolor crayons to color their birds. They mixed their secondary colors by layering primary colors, and then painting with water.
In third grade, students made some observations about artwork to discover that art can have a theme, just like music dance and literature. They chose a theme for their color wheels and then went to work mixing secondary colors with their primary colors. They used watercolors for their color wheels.
After their organic butterfly shapes, second graders made some art using geometric shapes. We discussed the difference and also added to their color knowledge. They reviewed primary and secondary, and then learned about warm and cool. Students were to choose a color scheme for their project. When their page was filled with a variety of geometric shapes they used markers in the same color scheme to draw lines around their shapes.
This is a great project for my first graders. Anything to do with paint creates a lot of excitement! Students made observations about Mondrian's artwork. They discovered that he used straight lines that made squares and rectangles. They also noticed that he used red, yellow and blue in his paintings. We continue to review the elements of line and shape as we move into color. They also learned some big vocabulary...vertical and horizontal. Most of my first grade classrooms are bilingual, so I am careful not to overwhelm them with lots of new vocabulary all at once. They used strips of black paper for their lines and tempera paint for their shapes.
Third grade was learning about the differences between geometric and organic shapes. They began their project by creating organic shapes using warm colors. The next week they outlined their organic shapes with permanent marker, and added overlapping geometric shapes. Students used cool colors to paint their geometric shapes and they also had to make decisions about what color to use when geometric shapes overlapped. I jumped into this project thinking it may be too complicated for my third graders, but I am happy to say I was wrong! They loved this project and used great care while painting. You could have heard a pin drop...except we were listening to music while we worked. As one student exclaimed..."This is so relaxing, I wish we could just do this all day!"
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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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