Medina & LosAl@Home (3-5)
Week 34: Bug in a Hat (3rd)
This week we took a break and challenged our imaginations. The challenge was to create a drawing of a bug wearing a hat.
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Week 34: Georges Seurat (4th-5th)
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Georges Seurat. He was a painter the came up with the style "pointalism". We created our own pointalist drawings.
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Week 33: Willie Seaweed
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Willie Seaweed. He was a master wood carver and was known for his totem poles. He helped remember and pass down traditions of the Kwakuitl people. We created our own totem poles with different animals and creatures.
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Week 32: Snacking Animal (4th)
This week we took a break and challenged our imaginations. The challenge was to create a drawing of an animal eating a silly snack.
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Week 32: Pageant Book Cover (5th)
This week we created the covers for our 5th grade pageant book.
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Week 31: Claude Monet
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Claude Monet. We found out that he painted in an impressionistic style which has bright colors and small brushstrokes. He enjoyed painting water lilies and planted his own lily pond so he could paint them all the time. We created our own lily pond artwork like his.
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Week 30: Healthy Superhero (3rd)
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.
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Week 30: Georgia O'Keeffe (4th-5th)
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Georgia O'Keeffe. We found out that she loved nature and wanted to find ways to show the world how wonderful it was. We created flower sculptures out of homemade clay.
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Week 29: Georgia O'Keeffe
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Georgia O'Keeffe. We found out that she loved nature and wanted to find ways to show the world how wonderful it was. We created large flower drawings similar to the large scale flower paintings that made O'Keeffe a famous artist.
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Week 28: Rene Magritte
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 self portrait with some of our favorite things.
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Week 27: Remington & Russell
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Charles Russell and Fredric Remington. We found out that they were both inspired by the Wild West. We created desert landscapes filled with interesting patterns.
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Week 26: Wassily Kandinsky
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.
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Week 25: Vincent Van Gogh
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Vincent Van Gogh. We found out that he painted in an impressionistic style which has bright colors and small brushstrokes. He enjoyed painting colorful things and very much enjoyed sunflowers. We created our own sunflower painting like his.
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Week 24: Roy Lichtenstein
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.
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Week 23: Edward Hopper
This week we continue learning about Pageant artists from the past. This time we learned about Edward Hopper. We discovered that he enjoyed making artwork of buildings and lighthouses. He created artwork that captured moments of everyday life and the way light made them beautiful. We created our own lighthouse in a torn paper collage.
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Week 22: Edgar Degas
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.
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Week 21: Henri Rousseau
This week we began learning about Pageant artists from the past. We started with Henri Rousseau. We discovered that he enjoyed making paintings of jungles but never went to a jungle himself. He used his imagination and photos to create cool jungle scenes. We used our imagination to draw a jungle animal similar to what he did in the past.
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Week 20: Creature in a Bottle (3rd-5th)
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.
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Week 19: Texture and Shape Castle (3rd)
This week we talked about texture and shape. We used shapes and our imagination to create unique castles. We also were given the option to use different kinds of textures found around us to create crayon rubbing textures on our castle.
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Week 19: Snacking Shark (4th-5th)
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.
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Week 18: Snacking Shark (3rd)
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.
Make sure to take a picture of your artwork and add it to the slideshow each week so I can have your amazing art on this website!
Week 18: Flashlight Drawing (4th-5th)
This week we looked at the book Flashlight by Lizi Boyd. We talked about what an illustration is and created our own nighttime illustrations. We looked at different kinds of nocturnal animals to draw in our artwork.
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Week 17: 1-Point Perspective Farm (3rd-5th)
This week we talked about landscapes and perspective again. We reviewed the idea that things get smaller as that get further away. We each created our own 1-Point perspective farm where the crops got smaller as they went back in space.
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Week 16: Pop-Up Landscape (3rd)
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.
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Week 16: Pop-Up City Landscape (4th-5th)
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 city landscapes where the buildings became smaller as they got further away.
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Week 15: Flashlight Drawing (3rd)
This week we looked at the book Flashlight by Lizi Boyd. We talked about what an illustration is and created our own nighttime illustrations. We looked at different kinds of nocturnal animals to draw in our artwork.
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Week 15: Still Life (4th-5th)
This week we talked about Still Lives. There were two options of a still life that we cold practice drawing, and we each chose one and worked on the skill of drawing what we are looking at. We talked about looking at the different kinds of shapes, shadows, and colors of the objects we are looking at.
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Week 14: Form Cake (3rd)
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.
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Week 14: Texture Castle (4th-5th)
This week we talked about Texture again which is one of the Elements of Art. We each drew our own unique castles using lines and shapes, then we found different textures around us and added those to our castle by crayon rubbing.
Make sure to take a picture of your artwork and add it to the slideshow each week so I can have your amazing art on this website!
Week 13: Snowflake Printing (3rd)
This week we learned about Printmaking. We talked about symmetry and created a symmetrical snowflake on a blank paper. Then we learned how to create a foil print by coloring on a piece of foil and transferring it to our snowflake paper.
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Week 13: Winter Forms (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Form which is an Element of Art. We talked about how to add shadows to certain shapes to make them into a 3-D Form. Then we turned those forms into winter related objects.
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Week 12: Form Snowmen (3rd)
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.
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Week 12: Snowflake Printing (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Printmaking. We talked about symmetry and created a symmetrical snowflake on a blank paper. Then we learned how to create a foil print by coloring on a piece of foil and transferring it to our snowflake paper.
Make sure to take a picture of your artwork and add it to the slideshow each week so I can have your amazing art on this website!
Week 11: Pattern Hot Cocoa (3rd)
This week we learned about Pattern which is one of the Elements of Art. We created 3-D cocoa mugs and decorated them with different patterns.
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Week 11: Pattern and Form Hot Cocoa (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Pattern and Form which are some of the Elements of Art. We created hot cocoa mugs covered in cool patterns. We also added some shading so that it looked like the mugs were 3-D forms.
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Week 10: Texture Leaf Rubbing (3rd-5th)
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.
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Week 9: Complementary Color Op Art (3rd-5th)
This week we learned about Color which is one of the Elements of Art. We discussed Complementary colors. We then used these colors and created an Optical Illusion artwork. We used Complementary colors to make our Op art look like it was popping off the paper by tricking the eye and creating different values from complementary colors.
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Week 8: Value Spider Web (3rd)
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.
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Week 8: Value Pumpkin (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Value which is one of the Elements of Art. We discussed how to create different values by pressing light or hard with our supplies or a special technique with water and markers. We then created different values in a pumpkin to make it look more realistic and decorated the background with festive patterns.
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Week 7: Red Ribbon Coloring Contest
This week we did a coloring contest for Red Ribbon Week. We found ways to creatively color in the awesome Sammy the Seal artwork drawn by an officer of our own Seal Beach Police Department.
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Week 6: Warm & Cool Color Fish (3rd)
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.
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Week 6: Complementary Color Fruit (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Color which is one of the Elements of Art. We discussed Complementary colors. We then used these colors and created an artwork of a fruit and color it and the background with Complementary colors.
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Week 5: Color Mixing (3rd)
This week we learned about Color which is one of the Elements of Art. We talked about Primary colors and how to mix them into Secondary colors. We create what I call "surprise drawings" of color mixing. Students colored with Primary colors on the outside and the colors mixed the the middle to create the Secondary colors.
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Week 5: Warm & Cool Colors (4th-5th)
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 sun and moon.
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Week 4: Color Scavenger Hunt (3rd)
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.
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Week 4: Color Mixing Experiments (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Color and Value which are some of the Elements of Art. We talked about Primary colors and how to mix them into Secondary colors. We created values in our beakers by pressing light or hard with our supplies like we practiced last week. We combined these ideas together to create an awesome color mixing science experiment that "exploded" into secondary colors!
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Week 3: Shape Robots (3rd)
This week we learned about Shape which is one of the Elements of Art. We talked about what the difference between geometric and organic shapes were. We then created our own awesome robots using different kinds of shapes.
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Week 3: Shape and Value Robots (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Shape and Value which are some of the Elements of Art. We talked about what the difference between geometric and organic shapes were and how to create different values by pressing light or hard with our supplies. We then created our own awesome robots using different kinds of shapes and added different values.
Make sure to take a picture of your artwork and add it to the slideshow each week so I can have your amazing art on this website!
Week 2: Line Landscapes (3rd)
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.
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Week 2: Color Scavenger Hunt (4th-5th)
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.
Make sure to take a picture of your artwork and add it to the slideshow each week so I can have your amazing art on this website!
Week 1: Line Owls (3rd)
This week we learned about Line which is one of the Elements of Art. We then used different kinds of lines to create our owls and the designs on their bodies.
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Week 1: Line Cakes (4th-5th)
This week we learned about Line which is one of the Elements of Art. We then used different kinds of lines to create our cakes and the designs on the different tiers.
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