HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

First, I would like to thank Jim Dine for his amazing art. Second, I would like to celebrate the simplicity in his heart themed art.  A heart can say soooo much!  1st grade compared some of Jim Dine's heart art.

What do you notice?  Do these paintings have a different feeling?

Concentrating on printmaking (using the negative space) and making a symmetrical design (on our positive space)



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We watercolored the background and then added our own symmetrical heart using the stencil printing technique.  We added paint and pattern as a final touch.

Car Collages

Check out our Animoto video to see what 1st Graders invented.  These were inspred by a great book - If I Built a Car by Chris van Dusen.

Car Collages

William H Johnson Self Portraits

The artist William H Johnson painted pictures of people and memories from his childhood.  We asked ourselves what we want to be when we grow up and then got to painting the future.  Here are just a few to hold us over.  Works are still in progress.

Freeform Stitichery

Success!  In 1st grade, we all tied a knot, threaded a needle, and "ran" with a running stitch.

Matisse inspired Snowflakes

Winter seemed like the perfect theme for our artwork.  Since mother nature isn't making much snow for us this winter, we decided we would make the snow ourselves.

Matisse got us thinking............

• How would using warm or cool colors change the feeling in my artwork?

• How can I make shapes that have symmetry and radial symmetry?

• Why do I think positive and negative spaces are important in my artwork?

1st grade did a great job!  I love how everyones' looked different from the way they organized their cool colors and arranged their snowflakes to the individuality in each flake of snow ... no two are the same.

Mondrian meets Kandinsky

In this project 1st grade viewed and discussed Piet Mondrian's Grey Tree and Wassily Kandinsky's Colour Study of Squares.

We pondered .... "What if Mondrian and Kandinsky were friends and decided to make an artwork together? What would it look like?"
Since Mondrian was fasincated with balance(symmetry and asymmetry)and Kandinsky loved playing with colors, maybe it would look like these wonderful beauties.

To make these abstracted trees we painted the background either warm or cool colors using a wet-on-wet process. Then we used a monoprint technique to make a symmetrical tree and circles. Using tempera we experimented with the primary and secondary color schemes as well as creating light and dark values.