Line
We learned about all types of lines to create segments and painted them with watercolors.
Read the story about Curtis to help us remember different lines!
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Line with Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist that created non-representational art. He used horizontal and vertical lines to create rectangles and squares. He finished his artwork using the primary colors -red, yellow, and blue.
Shape
Shapes in Still Lifes
A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, and so on).
Color
Native American Placemats
During November, we learned about the Native Americans and their different way of living compared to ours. Native Americans have a craft called weaving that they did for a lot of their art and living. Native Americans used pictographs, or symbols, to write because they did not have words. We usually remember the Native Americans during Thanksgiving, which is based around a meal. Each student created a placemat to have for their meal. The Pictographs on the side represent something the students are thankful for.
Pop Art Snowflakes
We learned about the artist Andy Warhol, a pop artist. Pop art is art based on modern popular culture and the mass media. Andy Warhol made screenprints of popular items and people. He used many bright colors, most often complimentary colors. Complimentary colors are colors located across from each other on the colors wheel that go well together. We created snowflakes using complimentary colors to mimic the pop art movement.
Keith Haring
Value
Blue Dogs by George Rodrique
George Rodrigue painted his dog Tiffany at night and the shadows made her white fur look blue. After that, he decided that he was always going to paint blue dogs. He became known as the Painter of Blue Dog. We learned that George Rodrigue used different values of blue while painting Tiffany. Value is the light and darkness of a color (for example: sky blue, cobalt blue, navy blue). Each student created their own blue dog and thought of a costume or background for their dogs.
Blue Dogs!
Torn Paper Landscape
Complimentary Reflections
Illustrating like Eric Carle
Students learned about many different art jobs such as artist, illustrator, sculptor, architect, designer, video game creator, and more. We focused on the works and books of Eric Carle. Students then picked an animal and had to create it in the style of Eric Carle.
Self-Portraits
Students used mirrors to draw themselves realistically. They then looked through magazines to find their favorite things or things that described them to collage around their amazing drawings! They turned out so great! Great job 1st graders!