PA Farm Show: ART WEEK
One big art form is weaving at the farm show sheep to shawl
COLORS OF HORSESThis week is the PA Farm Show Week
A few projects across the school
Kindergarten: Horses Head Collages
What shape is a horse head from a front view? Where are the eyes, nose and mouth? What colors are horses?
TYPES OF HORSES
2nd Grade: Horses in Motion
We will look at motion in art. Horses as a herd running has a lot of motion. We will take out all detail from our horse and look at just the outline creating a positive and negative space stencil of a horse running. Using chalk show how the wind would move around the horses when running.
One of the first motion pictures was a horse running:
Artist Manet art piece
Ancient Art called cave paintings have used animal and showed motion by overlapping images:
Lets take a virtual tour of a cave with cave paintings: Video of Lascaux Cave
3rd Butter Sculptures
Butter has been placed in molds, carved, flavored and decorated. During farm show week in PA we always have a large butter sculpture made form average 1,000 pounds of butter. 2013 Butter Sculpture
Chickens
4th Grade: Pencil Drawings of Animals
During Farm show week if you go you will see all types of animals. Animals that live on the farm to animals that live around the farm . The wild animals snakes, hawks, cow bird, down to little mice. Looks at the "fur, wrinkles, scales and feathers" hand out and examples and draw a animal using those pencil and crayons. Don't forget to use your drawing techniques.
Video of How to Draw a Farm Scene
5th Grade: The Feather
PENN LIVE THE POULTRY video click link to see unusual poultry
BE CREATIVE WITH THE FEATHER
other ideas:
All About maple:
7th Andy Warhol POP ART
Andy Warhol used animals in his art
PA FARM SHOW CLIPS
Heritage cows did not look like our modern day cows.