We focused on gathering and playing with objects that REFLECT or REFRACT light. Students were encouraged to create their own images, sculptures, or spaces and then photograph the results.
Flower Reflection by Mrs. Brunette, Columbia Librarian Today, in my Columbia Facebook LIVE mini art lesson, I introduced the children to the Danish/Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson. He creates environmental installations utilizing the properties of light which viewers can walk through and have an experience that might upend their perceptions of reality.
We focused on gathering and playing with objects that REFLECT or REFRACT light. Students were encouraged to create their own images, sculptures, or spaces and then photograph the results.
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Again, the young artists at Columbia were asked to create a special Back Drop for the Thanksgiving family luncheon at Columbia. The kinder and first grade artists sure came through with our Farmer's Market Stand theme: Thankful for the Harvest! First grade students learned to draw pumpkins on painted papers using curved lines to create 3D FORM. They drew their lines with black oil pastel. They added warm pastel chalk pumpkin colors: yellows, oranges, reds and blended them onto the painted papers. The final touch was the shadow blending of the black oil pastel and adding white chalk highlights and cutting out their pumpkins.
Kinder artists dot stamped pattern rows of colored lines onto bubble wrapped printed papers. They traced a shape template and cut out their two ears of corn shapes. Mrs. Smith helped them hot glue the fake straw tassels onto their ears of corn. The K-2 grade art classes created this fall/winter mural for the Winter Holiday luncheon. It served as a backdrop for a family photo booth. First grade students painted and crayon textured paper towel rolls to create the aspen tree trunks. First and Kinder artists created the cool color background by decoupaging squares of cool colored tissue paper onto recycled overhead projector transparencies. The warm colored leaves were made in the same manner by second grade artists using warm tissue paper. Then students traced, drew and cut out leaf shapes. The Kinder classes traced, cut, painted and glittered the Folk Art Evergreens. Mrs. Smith assembled the mural wall hanging.
Wow! Reflective Symmetry! Students studied PROPORTIONAL DRAWING using the GRID ENLARGEMENT technique. They applied their observational skills. Reviewed the PRIMARY COLOR scheme and practiced colored pencil skills. Very impressive! Sunrise Artists!
Kinder Love Monster Collages: Print stamping textures, cutting and gluing skills were practiced. So expressive and unique! Grade 2: Value-tines, Valentines that say Be Mine! A quick one day lesson for heart candy pop art. I had printed out the heart, the children drew the 3-D sides and learned to select warm/cool complementary colors to help their candy heart POP out with more color contrast. They also reviewed and practiced making tints and shades.
Grade 3 artists at both Sunrise and Columbia learned about ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE as they painted Here, Near, and Faraway tall, redwood forest trees in 3 different VALUES of green tempera paint.
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Here I am with my husband, Timothy, at the beautiful Bosque Del Apache wildlife refuge near Socorro, New Mexico
AuthorCynthia Smith teaches art at Columbia and Sunrise Elementary Schools in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Archives
May 2020
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