1st Grade Robots

As part of a new art assessment through MAEIA, 1st graders created these robots to show their knowledge of geometric shapes and primary colors. Each robot also has a job. Be sure to ask your first grader what their robot does!

 

O'Keefe Inspired Butterflies

Third Grade students looked at artwork by Georgia O'Keefe and read various books about her life. In one book, "My Name is Georgia" by Jeanette Winter, students discovered that Georgia O'Keefe created large artworks of small things like flowers, partly because she wanted people to see things the way she saw them. Students then drew and colored another small thing; butterflies. Students looked carefully at a picture of a butterfly and tried to capture as many details as they could. They colored their butterflies with chalk pastel. 

 

Charley Harper Birds

First Grade students were introduced to the art of Charley Harper. He is known for painting animals and birds with simple shapes. We call this style realistic minimalism. Students created blue jays and cardinals by combining different shapes and gluing them to a wintery background.

 

 

Cropped Animal Portraits

2nd Grade students used viewfinders to zoom in closely to a photograph of an animal. They saw a demonstration of using photo-editing software to see how to crop a photo. They learned that sometimes artists crop a photo or artwork to show emphasis (or what the artist thinks is the most important part of the artwork).

Students cropped a photo of the animal of their choice and then drew what was in the viewfinder very large. Then they wrote clues to help people guess what animal they zoomed in on.

Los estudiantes de segundo grado usaron visores para enfocar de cerca una fotografía de un animal. Ellos vieron una demostración del uso de un programa para editar fotografías digitales y vieron como recortar una foto. Aprendieron que algunas veces los artistas recortan una fotografía o una obra de arte para hacer énfasis (o lo que el artista piense que es la parte más importante de la obra de arte).

Los estudiantes recortaron una foto del animal que escogieron y luego dibujaron lo que estaba en el visor, pero muy grande. Luego escribieron pistas para ayudar a las personas a adivinar cual animal enfocaron de cerca. 

 

 

Wire Sculptures

4th grade students looked at the artwork of Steve Lohman. They used wire to create a 3-D sculpture that conveyed movement.

 

Winter Landscapes

Kindergarten students compared landscapes with cityscapes. They were introduced to the idea of having a horizon line in their artwork to separate the land from the sky. Finally, students learned to identify cool colors. They created a winter landscape using cool colored tissue papers as the sky, with plain white paper as snow. They added bare trees and falling snow as well. 

 

 

Urban Landscapes

Second graders finished their study of urban, rural and suburban areas. They've already created artwork about rural and suburban areas. In this project, they "built" an urban area by printing legos on their paper and colored them with crayons and colored pencils.

 

One Point Perspective Drawings

Fifth Grade students learned to draw realistic landscapes and cityscapes using one-point perspective. Students used a ruler to create a horizon line and vanishing point. They learned that objects appear smaller and less detailed the further they are away.