Art

To my returning students, new students and all their parents I welcome all of you to a new school year. I am so excited that we will be meeting in person! I miss all of you and I can't wait to meet the rest of you. I will be putting up here brief overviews of the lessons we will be covering in class. This is my fifth year at Merdinian . Over the summer I participated in a Professional Development class. The classes title was A in STEAM is for art. I am pleased to announce the incorporation of STEAM into my art class. We already began on this road the past year and half and this will be my first official year doing it. I hope over the next few years it will gain strength. My goal is to have every grade level to have at least one to two STEAM projects per semester. I will work with the student's other teachers to have cross collaboration to have some more project based lessons. This will only reinforce what they are learning in their other classes.

As for our other projects the students will get to use a vast amount of mediums: charcoal, soft and oil pastels, color pencils, tempera paint, watercolor paint, ink (print making), clay, pencils, etching, computers and markers. My class will cover many different art history lessons tied into the art we are making. The lessons will range from Pre-historic to Modern art. I also would like to incorporate more drawing from life. Sometimes I will set up a few different still life scenes for them to draw. When weather permits it we will even venture outside to draw nature and buildings to give the kids a much needed mask break.

Supplies will mostly given by the school. This year any high touch items the student will get to keep. I will be passing out brushes and a few other supplies. I will label each and the student will learn how to take care of their own supplies. If you have any questions please email me at latachian@merdionianschool.org

Pokemon Watercolor

Watercolor bird

Bunny drawing

Spring sculpture

Watercolor flowers

Charcoal Still life

Brief introduction to charcoals and how to use them.

Canvas Painting of a Sunset

Children will learn how to mix colors and blend in this painting. This will take us minimum of two lessons.

Whoever is done with their google for doodle will do this Valentine

This lesson is just fun and whimsical. The kids will get to use dot dot paint. This is always a hit.

GOOGLEFORM22.pdf

We started Doodle for Google this last week. Students will be working on this for the next couple of weeks. Please download and fill out the top portion of the form. Please do not forget to sign it. I will help the students fill out the bottom.

Armenian soldier

Full school paint

1/24-1/28

I will draw a huge Armenian soldier and every class will help me paint him.

Chalk Pastel Negative space drawing

January 24-28

Children will first draw a butterfly.

Then they will cut out their image.

Next step I will help them tape their image on their black paper

The fourth step will be to use chalk pastel on the outside of the image.

The last step will be to take unstick their cut-out image

Flower With Bee

We will do this project with oil pastels. Students will learn how to draw a flower and a bee then we will color it with oil pastels.

Santa Drawing

December 13-17

Kids will learn how to draw Santa then we will color him with crayons.

Christmas Tree Painting

Dec 6-10

I will have different colors of triangles available for the students.

They will paste together their collage.

After they will use a gold and white paint to decorate the rest of their art.

Watercolor Reindeer

Nov 30-Dec 3

Children will draw a reindeer.

Then they will outline it with oil pastels.

Lastly they will paint it with watercolor

Pop Art

11/22-11/26

Winter Painting

November 15-19

We will draw and paint a winter scene on blue paper.

Space

Week of November 8-12

Students will color with oil pastels on black paper.

Turkey

Students will learn to draw and color a turkey for thanksgiving

Fall sculpture

2 day lesson (10/25-10/29)

On the first day I will teach the students the basics on sculpture.

Then I will show them how to sculpt a leaf.

The second day they will paint the sculpture.

Fall Tree

10/18-10/22

Possible two session lesson

We will draw our tree trunk. (We will outline their arms and open fingers)
We will paint the whole paper with blue watercolor
We will paint the tree trunk with brown tempera paint
We will use cotton to paint the fall tree leaves.

-We will use yellow, red and orange paint.

Mosaic Pumpkin

Week of October 11-15

Students will learn how to draw a pumpkin.

They will then outline the pumpkin in marker and color in the stem.

I will have prepared cut-up pieces of orange color paper. I will give each student some and teach them about mosaic.

Bird Drawing

Students will first learn how to draw their bird. Then they will color their picture with oil pastels.

Lesson 4

Students will draw from life. I will set up pomegranates on every table. I will walk around guiding them as I show techniques on the board.

Students will first use pencils to sketch out their drawings then use oil pastels.

Lesson 3 Butterfly

Students will learn to draw a butterfly.

After they draw the butterfly they will outline the butterfly with an oil pastel of their choice.

Then they will get a brief lesson on how to use watercolors.

]The students will paint the butterfly one color and the sky another color.

Lesson 2 Armenian Independence day

Chalk festival rough draft

September 13-17

Students will have to come up with an idea to use on September 22nd for a chalk festival the school will have. They can use any dry materials during art to come up with their idea.

Lesson 1 Self Portraits

August 30 -September 10

Two lesson project

Students will learn how to draw a face.

We will be using pencils erasers and crayons. I start every year with a self portrait. I recommend holding on to these and comparing them year after year.

One point perspective.

two weeks of lessons

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