Art

I make MESSES

I make MISTAKES

But deep inside

I got what it takes

I am an ARTIST!

Hello panther nation! My name is Justine Frappier and I’m the Art Teacher at Dayton Consolidated School. I’ve been teaching here for over ten years. I absolutely love this community and really enjoy teaching art to all the kids. I truly believe every kid is an artist and try to have every kid feel a sense of pride in their artwork. Along with art I also love insects, being outside, making food from scratch and baking sourdough bread. I live in Biddeford with my husband Tim and my two daughters Tessa and Emmalena.

what the kids are creating...

Kindergarten

The kindergarteners have started the year off strong with learning about lines! They just finished their crazy line cats/monsters. They were given an option of drawing a cat or a monster. They filled in their drawing with all kinds of lines they’ve been learning about, painted it in and finished it by giving it a rug to sit on and a name. Some even gave their cat a toy to play with. They did a great job and all the cats and monsters have such personalities.

1st Grade

The first graders just finished their Romero Britto inspired artwork. They were given the option of drawing a cat or dog but some were really inspired by his work and wanted to do Darth Vadar or Mickey Mouse. Britto’s artwork can be seen on so many things ranging from a pair of socks to a car. His artwork is packed with bright colors and lots of patterns. The kids added lots of color and patterns to their drawing, painted over it and then cut and glued it out onto a background that they added more pattern to. They did a great job!

2nd Grade

The second graders just finished their symmetrical butterflies. They learned about symmetry and what is symmetrical and what isn’t. They printed a symmetrical butterfly, colored it in with oil pastels and then cut and glued it onto a colorful background. They did a great job demonstrating symmetry by coloring in the wings the same on both sides.

3rd Grade

The third graders just finished their beautiful birch trees. They did such a great job with these and some added great detail. They started by painting the trees and scraping the paint to make the black streaks on the trees, when finished they designed a background with tempera sticks in cool colors on another paper. The next class they created birch leaf stamps and printed a large paper full of prints. In the final class they got to put everything together by cutting the trees out and gluing them onto the background and cutting and gluing the leaves on top. Some added details like animals and nests.

4th Grade

The fourth graders just finished their Wayne Thiebaud inspired cupcakes. Thiebaud was known for painting the store fronts of bakeries and all kinds of sweets. He loved adding color to his paintings and liked to put the paint on thick to make it look like real frosting. The fourth graders drew six cupcakes designing them in any way they wanted. Next , they had to cut and glue them onto the brown paper. We talked about having a light source in the picture and where there is light you add white for a highlight, and then add black on the opposite side for a shadow. By doing this you add depth to the picture. They did a great job creating cupcakes and adding value to the shadows.

5th Grade

Some fifth graders are almost done with their foil embossing while some are just starting. Group A has seen me more so they are almost done coloring in their embossing. While group B just started gluing down their yarn. The fifth graders were shown examples of embossing on different materials. Next they had the option of creating an abstract picture or a picture that represents something. They drew their picture onto a piece of cardboard and then glued down pieces of yarn on top of their lines. When the glue was dried they then pressed aluminum foil down and smoothed it out. They finished it off by coloring in their embossing with sharpies. They really shine in the sunlight.

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