Fourth grade Giuseppe arcimboldo fruit and vegetable portrait

4th graders learned about the life and art of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He did some very interesting portraits! He used many objects to make up the faces in his work.





We created our own Arcimboldo style portraits called, "You are what you eat!" They are made entirely of fruits and veggies!

1st Grade Mother's Day Portraits

1st Grade Mother's Day Portraits

Last week, 1st graders showed off their portrait drawing skills while also showing appreciation for the wonderful mothers in their lives! Students focused on understanding proportion and shape to draw the faces. Each student's artwork was unique to their own mother's features which made the final products all different and exciting! Students learned how to blend two colors of watercolor paint to make a background. They also used model magic to add a favorite necklace or pair of earrings their mother might wear. They were most excited about this part of the project!

Our beautiful mothers!

2nd Grade Cowboys and Cowgirls!

2nd grade artists are learning about how to create portraits! We read a book about cowboys and cowgirls and drew a self-portrait while imagining that we were a cowboy or cowgirl!

3rd Grade Roy Lichtenstein

3rd graders are studying the life and work of the artist Roy Lichtenstein. They learned that he copied other people's art by using comic strip and cartoon images as well as popular things in his own artwork. They learned that some people at the time considered him to be the worst artist in the world because of this! He would blow each image up on a huge scale and would use Benday Dots in his comic strip type work. Most of the Benday dots were primary colors.   We drew our own portraits and colored them with primary colored Benday dots and used them with a popular phrase in our school: "Fill a bucket!" (This is a phrase that reminds us to fill other people's buckets by being kind with our actions and words).

2nd Graders are studying the life and artwork of the artist Grant Wood. They learned about how his most famous artwork, American Gothic, is continually used in our culture to represent the classic hard working "regular folk" in America at that time. We went on a hunt to find this image in our everyday lives and kids were excited to report that they found this picture in SO MANY places! We then made our own drawings of the American Gothic and wrote about what we saw in this image.