Welcome Back!
We are already off to an exciting start to the new year in our Art Room! We will begin the year with our "Exploring Art Supplies and Environments" curriculum. Students will build their artistic skills while exploring and emphasizing a variety of mediums and grade level appropriate techniques.
We will once again be posting all of our art projects on Artsonia, which not only lets us share the artwork with friends and family far away, but also offers us a wonderful way to raise funds for the art program through customized keepsakes.
I look forward to working with your children and am always amazed to see how they grow and create over the course of the school year!
I hope you enjoy all the masterpieces that the 2023/2024 school year will bring.
Mrs. Susan Wagner
PreK-8th Grade Art Program
Famous Artist Birthdays:
Romare Bearden Sept. 2
Grandma Moses Sept. 7
Jacob Lawrence Sept. 7
Dale Chihuly Sept. 20
Marc Rothko Sept. 25
We are already off to an exciting start to the new year in our Art Room! We will begin the year with our "Exploring Art Supplies and Environments" curriculum. Students will build their artistic skills while exploring and emphasizing a variety of mediums and grade level appropriate techniques.
We will once again be posting all of our art projects on Artsonia, which not only lets us share the artwork with friends and family far away, but also offers us a wonderful way to raise funds for the art program through customized keepsakes.
I look forward to working with your children and am always amazed to see how they grow and create over the course of the school year!
I hope you enjoy all the masterpieces that the 2023/2024 school year will bring.
Mrs. Susan Wagner
PreK-8th Grade Art Program
Famous Artist Birthdays:
Romare Bearden Sept. 2
Grandma Moses Sept. 7
Jacob Lawrence Sept. 7
Dale Chihuly Sept. 20
Marc Rothko Sept. 25
Kindergarten Gallery - Sunflower
Literature: To Be Like the Sun by Susan Swanson
This Kinder lesson focused on using crayons and a variety of texture plates to add texture to the sunflowers! The Art Room was a field of bright sunflowers.
Literature: To Be Like the Sun by Susan Swanson
This Kinder lesson focused on using crayons and a variety of texture plates to add texture to the sunflowers! The Art Room was a field of bright sunflowers.
Grade 1 Gallery - Giraffes Can't Dance
Literature: Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
Students used line, movement and patterns to draw their dancing giraffe. They cut out and glued their giraffe to a starry background.
Literature: Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
Students used line, movement and patterns to draw their dancing giraffe. They cut out and glued their giraffe to a starry background.
Grade 2 Gallery - The Blue Gnu
Literature: One Blue Gnu by Donna Smith
Students created a symmetrical gnu using the fold and transfer technique. They added facial expressions of their choice. They used the ladder coloring technique.
Literature: One Blue Gnu by Donna Smith
Students created a symmetrical gnu using the fold and transfer technique. They added facial expressions of their choice. They used the ladder coloring technique.
Grade 3 Gallery - Prairie Dog
Video: National Geographic Prairie Dogs
Students used the ladder technique to color their prairie dog. They added the facial expression of their choice. They assembled it using a simple paper strip so that the prairie dog can pop in and out of its burrow!
Video: National Geographic Prairie Dogs
Students used the ladder technique to color their prairie dog. They added the facial expression of their choice. They assembled it using a simple paper strip so that the prairie dog can pop in and out of its burrow!
Grade 4 Gallery Ostrich
Slide deck and Video Free School Ostrich
Students explored curvy and zig zag lines and used a ladder technique to color their Ostrich.
Slide deck and Video Free School Ostrich
Students explored curvy and zig zag lines and used a ladder technique to color their Ostrich.
Grade 5 Gallery Zebras
Slide deck -Victor Vasarely's "Zebra"
After observing Victor Vasarely's Zebra, students used oil chalks and tempera paints to create geometric shapes for their Vasarely inspired Zebra!
Slide deck -Victor Vasarely's "Zebra"
After observing Victor Vasarely's Zebra, students used oil chalks and tempera paints to create geometric shapes for their Vasarely inspired Zebra!
Grade 6 Gallery Grasshoppers
Students focused on drawing a grasshopper from observation, blending with oil pastels and creating form by using a variety of values.
Students focused on drawing a grasshopper from observation, blending with oil pastels and creating form by using a variety of values.
Grade 7 Gallery Birds of Prey
The focus of our Birds of Prey lesson was layering oil pastel colors to create realistic value and texture. Students used a reverse value underlay with a base layer of white to help the bird pop off the page! They enjoyed a video about raptors from "San Diego Zoo Kids."
The focus of our Birds of Prey lesson was layering oil pastel colors to create realistic value and texture. Students used a reverse value underlay with a base layer of white to help the bird pop off the page! They enjoyed a video about raptors from "San Diego Zoo Kids."
Grade 8 Gallery - Watercolor Abstract