Smardner

This week we took a break and challenged our imaginations. The challenge was to create a drawing of a bug wearing a hat.

This week we took a break and challenged our imaginations. The challenge was to create a drawing of an animal eating a silly snack.

This week we took a break and challenged our imaginations. The challenge was to create a drawing of a fruit or vegetable as a superhero.

This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Rene Magritte. We found out that he created artwork that is called Surrealism and looks like strange dreams. We created a surreal artwork of a bird.

This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Wassily Kandinsky. We found out that he was inspired by sounds and music. He was one of the first artists to create Abstract art. We created iconic Russian buildings called Onion Domes that are colorful and have interesting shapes just like Kandinsky's artwork.

This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Roy Lichtenstein. We found out that he created large artworks that looked like ads from the newspapers or comic books called Pop Art. He created artwork that used lines and dots and bright colors to make it look as though is was printed. We created our own stamps with foam and made it into food similar to what some of Roy's artworks looked like.

This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Edgar Degas. We discovered that he enjoyed making artwork of ballerinas. He created artwork that captured moments of everyday life. We created our own ballerinas with 3-D tutus.

This week we quickly looked at an artist duo called kudu-lah that makes cool creatures in bottles. We used them as inspiration and created our own imaginary creatures in bottles.

This week we created a silly surprise drawing. We learned how to draw a shark and created a pop-out mouth with all the strange things it had been snacking on.

This week we talked about landscapes and perspective. We discussed how in perspective things that get further away from us look smaller. We created our own 3-D landscapes where the buildings became smaller as they got further away.

This week we talked about Form again which is one of the Elements of Art. We created our own unique 3-D cakes and used shadows to make them pop. Then they were decorated with different kinds of lines and patterns.

This week we learned about Form which is one of the Elements of Art. We created a snowman and added shading to make it look like a 3-D Form. We also used a colorful paper so we could use white to create our highlights and darker colors to create the shadows.

This week we learned about Texture which is one of the Elements of Art. We collected leaves and then learned how to create a leaf rubbing by holding our crayon on its side and revealing the leaf texture.

This week we learned about Value which is one of the Elements of Art. We discussed how to create different values by pressing harder or lighter with our supplies or by adding more water if we were painting. We then used these values in the different shapes in our spider web with a 3-D paper spider.

This week we learned about Color which is one of the Elements of Art. We discussed Warm colors and Cool colors. We then used these colors and created a Warm and Cool artwork of a fish made of warm colors and the background of cool colors.

This week we started learning about Color which is one of the Elements of Art. We went on a scavenger hunt to find different colors around our home and arranged them artistically for a cool picture.

This week we learned about landscapes and Line which is one of the Elements of Art. We then challenged ourselves to use 3 different kinds of lines to create landscapes and then add cool details to them.