More Surrealistic Collages

Yes, we could photo shop our collages, but we choose to do them the old fashioned way. Here are the copied version of some of the collages and the next step will be to hand color them in with colored pencils.

Second Grade goes abstract

The Second grade artists studied the Russian artist Wasilly Kandinsky. They learned that Kandinsky painted what he thought music looked like. The second grade artists also did a little color theory.

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Romare Bearden and The Block

The first grade artists have been busy studying the world around them. They learned about the differences in where people live. They learned the words urban, suburban and rural. They studied the collages of artist Romare Bearden.
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/guide_02.html
Then the first grade artists created their own block or neighborhood. The collages could be imagined or literal.

Dada Collages

The fourth grade artists start out the year studying the Dada art movement. We learned the Dada artists used realistic objects in an unrealistic way. The fourth grade artists had to use JUXTAPOSITION, SCALE CHANGE and BACK GROUND in their collage creations. We also learned about the Dada artist's radical response to what was happening in Europe in the 1920's. Ask a fourth grader about it!

Celebration of the Arts

Last week Shamrock Springs had the Celebration of the Arts. I held an opening in my room and displayed an artwork from each artist a Shamrock Springs. I love seeing how excited the artists are to show off their work and enjoy the work of others.

Clocks

Last year the school was getting all new clocks and trashing the old ones. Like a good art teacher I collected all the old clocks because I knew we could do cool things with them. I only had 27 clocks- enough for one class. Mrs. Dubovich's class have been the most engaged in art class this year so they got to get the clocks. They could paint their clocks "in the manner of" and an artist or create something meaningful to them. They turned out so cool!!!

First grade still life

The first grade artists studied the difference between portraits, landscapes, abstract and still life paintings. They also studied Van Gogh's Irises and Sunflowers. With all that knowledge they sat down to paint a still life of their own. Their goals where to paint what they see and to make sure that all the flowers do not face the same way.