Students studied winter landscapes including Claude Monet's The Magpie. We began by painting a sunset/sunrise over a horizon line. Then students created aspens with cut paper and glueing them to our backgrounds. Students used black to paint shadows and tree textures and finished by adding fences and purple snow shadows.
Cezanne Still-life's
Student's learned about painter Paul Cezanne and his colorful still-life's! We started by sketching out our fruit and baskets with black paint. We then used warm colors to paint the basket full of fruit and cool colors to paint the table and background. We finished them by adding white highlights on the fruit!
Paul Cezanne
Click on the link to learn more about Paul Cezanne:
Native American Portraits
Student's learned about the culture of Native Americans and we studied many authentic portraits of Native Americans. We discussed the differences between their facial features and ours, and how to draw and paint them accordingly. We discussed new painting techniques of using layers to make certain areas darker and how to create shadows on their faces. Students finished them by adding patterns for the clothing and lots of Native American jewelery!
Click on the link to learn more about Native Americans:
http://www.nativeamericans.com/
IN THE CLASSROOM!!
IN THE CLASSROOM!!
Check out the 3rd grade students working on their Monday Morning Blah Sculptures!
Jenn Shepherd won an Impact on Education grant for this project! We'd like to thank
our sponsors Patty Meneley & Sargent Bickham Lagudis for their generous donation!
Monday Morning Blah Sculptures!
3rd grade students had a chance to work in a completely new and unusual medium by working with
copper metal! Students were asked to draw a picture of what their facial expressions look like
they are woken up first thing on Monday morning. Then each srudent was given a 7x7 square of
copper metal. The design was drawn on the metal with a wooden stylus and then pushed up from
the back in the Repousse technique. The same technique used to create the Statue of Liberty!
We then aged the patina (the surface of the metal) by placing each piece in a bowl of diluted
liver of sulfur. The foil was dried and students used a fine steel wool to polish the deign back up
and reveal the details! Finished squares were mounted on black railroad board.
IN THE CLASSROOM!!
Maria Martinez Ceramic Coil Pots
Students learned about legendary ceramicist Maria Martinez and her special techniques of creating pottery. Students were then ggive one class period to build a coil pot as large as possible in the given time period. once completed, the student pottery was fired and then given to the students to glaze. Once finished, their pots were spotlighted at our end of the year Art & Music Night!
Frederick Remington Bronze Sculptures
Students learned about famous western artist Frederick Remington and his bronze horse sculptures. Students began by practicing sketches of horses and then created a relief of a horse using clay on cardboard. We finished them by painting them a bronze color and mounting them on black paper.
Remington Bronze Sculptures
Visit the Remington Museum:
http://www.fredericremington.org/page.php?p=85&s=3
Click here to visit the 2006/2007 gallery of Third grade art!