1st Grade James Rizzi Fun Architecture

1st grade artists are studying the fun art of James Rizzi!

Click HERE to see our James Rizzi Architecture Slide Show!

We created our own playful fantasy architecture and practiced rainbow order in our crayon resist.

Roy G Biv Rainbow order leprechauns with kindergarten.

Kindergarten artists watched the youtube video about Roy G. Biv. We practiced our knowledge of rainbow order and figure drawing with our artworks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf33ueRXMzQ&index=1&list=PLFtAUqSGF7Uv2hY8IzqfQgyrJ3_KK648y

Kindergarten & 1st Grade rainbow clowns

Kindergarten and 1st grade artists reviewed our knowledge of portraits by creating a silly clown! We practiced our knowledge of pattern, line, and rainbow order in the backgrounds!

1st Grade: James Rizzi Buildings

Learning Goals:

Students can recognize the art of James Rizzi

Students can paint my buildings in Rainbow Order

Students can create Rizzi inspired buildings with silly faces and shapes

Students can show space by using overlapping with my buildings

Students can recognize the art genre of architecture

Kindergarten Rainbow Order Stars

Kindergarten artists read the book, "Draw me a Star" by the author and illustrator Eric Carle. We learned how to draw stars in a few different ways. We also sang the Roy G. Biv song that teaches us about rainbow order. We drew our shooting stars, and and the shooting lines be all different types of lines! (one of our art elements).  Next, we colored our shooting lines in rainbow order. 

3rd Grade "Action Jackson"

3rd grade artists are learning about the Abstract Action Paintings of the artist Jackson Pollock! We created our own "action" paintings by blowing paint with straws (instead of throwing paint around our classroom like Jackson did). We also learned a bit about Jackson's life and work and reviewed rainbow order in our art.

On the back of our artwork, we add our "cheat sheet" or Art Critique where we can go to help us explain to our parents what we were learning about. It is also a great summative evaluation of our learning:

Here are a couple of books we read with some classes about the life and work of Action Jackson:

We also watched this youtube clip about Jackson while coloring:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmrwtc8tXc&list=PLFtAUqSGF7UtM_w7Sn-EBCAtDux7tZS6s

Kindergarten Rainbow Order Bees

Kindergarten artist sang the song, "Follow the Rainbow" and reviewed Rainbow Order with our beehives! These fancy art bees really know how to create a beautiful beehive! :)

Kindergarten Rainbow Order Chameleons

Kindergarten artists sang the song, "Follow the Rainbow" and talked about Rainbow Order! Some of us even danced with colored ribbons according to the rainbow colors. Then we read the book, "Chameleon's Colors" and drew a funny striped chameleon! Then we colored it in rainbow order, painted a blue background, and then added some cut paper leaves and flowers!

1st Grade Rainbow Order Snails - ROY G BIV

1st graders sang the song about our good friend, Mr. ROY G BIV. They learned that his names stands for the color order! Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet! We looked at why rainbow is important for color mixing and color families on the color wheel!

2nd Grade Rainbow Parrots

2nd graders are practicing their knowledge of rainbow order on their parrots after reading the books, "Tiki Tiki Tango" and "Terrific." They used oil pastels to blend some of the colors on their parrots then watercolor paint to show different values of greens in the leaves and vines! They truly are exquisite!