Art Spirit

November 24, 2009 ---- looking at Carravaggio's 'Sacrifice of Isaac'

November 18, 2009 ---- dots

November 17, 2009 ---- swimming

Weaving in 1st grade

The students in the 1st grade   have created some beautiful  weaving using cardboard and jute.  After the students completed their weaving they added in 'crazy stuff' to dress up the weaving.The 'crazy stuff' was  from a box of lace, wire, plastic things to weave into their weft--- also I asked the students to bring in dryer lint form home which we collected in a box for everyone to use--- we had a wonderful time!

Portraits of People created by the students in the 2nd grade

The students in the 2^nd grade art classes explored and created art works   with the learning goal of the genre of Portraits  in visual arts. The children began their exploration by looking at painting and sculptures of portraiture   while discussing the questions of

 

What can an artwork tell you about the artist?

 

In what ways does art express emotion?

 

We followed our looking at and talking about art with creating a wonderful catalog of mapping facial proportions as well as eyes, mouths, and noses.  The students created portraits of ‘someone’ that is thinking, yelling, and laughing singing and so on…. Then the portraits were transferred on to over head projector film, and painting with acrylic paint on the reverse side of the drawing. Stunning!!!!!

 

Listed are the Jefferson County Visual Arts Curriculum Alignment Understandings, Know and Do the students mastered while creating their Portraits

 

Understandings  

Students will understand that…

 

t  Artist of many cultures create artworks of themselves and others.

n  Artists use elements and principles in portraits.

o  Artists follow rules when drawing a face.

v   Portraits can express emotion.

 

Students will know:

 

t  A portrait is an artwork of a particular person.

t  A self-portrait is when an artist creates a portrait of him/her self.

n  Art vocabulary:

o Shape - organic

o Balance - symmetrical, asymmetrical

o Pattern

o  Basic proportions or “rules” of a face.

v   How to illustrate different facial expressions.

 

 

Students will be able to…

 

t  Compare and contrast portraits from various artists and cultures.

n  Draw symmetrical shapes and create a pattern.

n  Participate in an informal critique using shape and balance vocabulary.

o  Draw a face using appropriate shapes and placement of features.

v   Draw a variety of facial expressions.

Pablo Picasso and Dale Chihuly ---- reading

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November 16, 2009 ---- talking

Pablo Picasso and Dale Chihuly

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November 12, 2009

Once at a lecture, the artists said they try to honor all ideas that come to mind -----  I was thinking about these birds when I woke up---  flying   wrapped in filigree.