Welcome Back Young Artists!

After spending 8.5 months with my new son Sebastian on maternity leave, I am so excited to be back at Woods Road and CAN'T WAIT to see my little artists arrive on Tuesday morning.  I have planned some new and and exciting lessons for this school year and have kept and tweaked some the most popular projects.  Below is what we have in store for the first few weeks:

Pre-K: Printmaking with a focus on rubbings and stamping. They will explore different patterns and textures and see how to replicate those designs with a variety of materials.  The first artist we will learn about is Friedenreich Hundertwasser, when we create our own landscape by collaging our prints together.

Kindergarten: As a tradition, we always start out with collage.  Students will explore a variety of textures and how to arrange them on a page to make a picture or design.  The unit will culminate with a texture stick puppet of an animal or person. We will study artists Paul Klee for his use of shape and Avant-Garde style puppets.

TP: Students will focus on how artists use line in their art.  We will use non traditional materials like tape to create line compositions and explore graffiti artists such as Keith Haring and Buff Diss.

 

First Grade: Abstract art will kick off the year with a focus on Spanish painter Joan Miro and French artist Piet Mondrian.  Students will become familiar with distinguishing different styles of art such as abstract, realistic, and non objective.  

Second Grade: These artists will be exploring a variety ways of making sculpture from paper techniques to arranging found objects.  I am extremely excited for the new lesson on Leonardo Da Vinci, where students will learn about his inventions and create their own artwork of the future.

Third Grade: Artist Georgia O'Keeffe will  be examined carefully similar to prior years, however this time we will create a different type of artwork inspired by her zoomed in abstract process. Unlike in the past where students worked with objects only from nature, now they can bring in anything that is meaningful to them and we will be using a different media as well.  

Fourth Grade: We will be starting off the year learning about Cubism.  On the first day, we will play a fun game called Roll a Picasso where students can become more familiar to this style of work in a fun and stress free way. After this exercise, students will create their own portraits using a combined effort of technology and traditional art make techniques.