Henri Matisse - Fauvism (Late 1800's)

Students learned about french artist, Henri Matisse and created a Fauvism self portrait, which is when colors are unnatural. 

Family Portraits  

Students created a family portrait using crayon and watercolors. Students had to think of height, and size differences, and individuality between each family member.

Vincent Van Gogh, 1889

Students have started creating a multi layered painting of their own version of a Starry Night

Faith Ringgold (Contemporary Artist)

 Students have been working on a memory drawing with a quilt frame.

We Can Do It - J. Howard Miller

Students have just finished their identity self portraits inspired by the famous "We can do it" poster.

Keith Haring - Social Issues Project

Students are finishing up their final artwork of elementary school art. This is their largest and longest project they have ever worked on.

Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers (1800's)

Students have begun learning about American Pop artist, Andy Warhol.

Georges Seurat: Pointillism 

Students have learned about french artist, Georges Seurat and studied his pointilism works. (artwork only created by dots)

Hokusai - "The Great Wave"

Students have learned about Japanese artist, Hokusai and the Japanese culture at the time. 

Romero Britto- Pop Art

 Students have finalized our Lunar New year hallway Decor focusing on Japanese Carp Wind Socks. 

We Can Do It - J. Howard Miller

Students are studying the Womens Right Movement in honor of Women's History Month. They are creating their own identity portrait inspired by the famous WWII Poster by J. Howard Miller.

Keith Haring - Pop Art

Students have started studying American pop artist, Keith Haring. Here we are learning how to draw quick gesture drawings. The students modeled for each other. 

Andy Warhol - Pop Art

Students have begun learning about American Pop artist, Andy Warhol.

Pointillism Fish

Students have started learning about 16 different types of fish. We have studied their differnces in shape, size, color, patterns, etc. 

Warm and Cool Gradients

Students have learned about warm and cool shapes and how to create a gradient using paint. 

Lunar New Year Decor

 Students have finalized our Lunar New year hallway Decor focusing on Japanese Carp Wind Socks. 

Black History Month Portraits

Students chose their own famous person of black history to focus on and research for their portrait project. Top 20 posted in hall.

Felipe Pantone

Students are learning about contemporary artist from Argentina, Felipe Pantone. Students are creating their own optical illusion artworks.

Overlapping Circles

Students just finished leanring about shapes and finalizied their overlapping unit.

Shapes

Students have started their shapes unit and are working on their fine motor skills.

Warm and Cool Gradients

Students have learned about warm and cool shapes and how to create a gradient using paint. 

Lunar New Year Decor

 Students have been working on our Hallway Lunar New year Decor focusing on Japanese Carp Wind Socks. 

Black History Month Portraits

Students chose their own famous person of black history to focus on and research for their portrait project. 

Felipe Pantone

Students are learning about contemporary artist from Argentina, Felipe Pantone. Students are creating their own optical illusion artworks.

Overlapping Circles

Students are learning about sizing: Small, medium, and Large. We learned how to overlap circles as well.

Jasper Johns

Students learned about American Artist, Jasper Johns. We are learning about negative and positive spacing.

Frida Kahlo

Students have just completed their Frida artworks.

Typography Project

 Students finsihed and critiqued each others artworks. 

Frank Stella Protractor Project

Students finsihed and critiqued each others artworks. 

ThankYouX

Students learned about street artist, ThankYouX. They created their own cube for a collaborative whole grade mural that is currently exhxibited in the hall.

Shape Unit

Students are learning about different type of advanced shapes, such as Pentagons, Hexagons, etc... and reviewing identifing basic shapes.

Piet Mondrian

Students learned all about Piet Mondrian and his love for primary colors. Now students are working on their own work inspired by Mondrian.

Frida Kahlo

Students learned about Surrealist, Frida Kahlo and started identity portraits inspired by her. 

Typography Project

 Students learned how to make block, bubble, and fancy letters. These are meant to make texts more interesting and appealing.

Frank Stella Protractor Project

Students learned about Minimalist and Maximalist Artist, Frank Stella and his protractor series. We are now working on creating our own work inspired by him.

Sugar Skull Contest

Students in 5th grade competed against eachother to find the most unique sugar skulls of 5th grade. Inspired by the art of the Mexican holiday "Day of the Dead" (dia de los muertos)

Line Unit

Students are working on their foundational skills on elementary school art - How to how a paint brush, how to color between the lines.

Color Unit Review

Students learned about the science of color. They reviewed the Primary colors, Secondary colors, and did a color mixing experiment

Digital Mandalas

Students learned about different cultures mandala designs and created their own digital mandalas on a website called mandalagaba.com. 

American Gothic Parodies

 Students learned about American Artist, Grant Wood and his most famous works. We then created parodies out of magazine collaging.

Buff Monster Hallway Mural

Students completed their Buff Monster Mural for the hall!

Salvador Dali Surrealism Portraits

Students completed their Surrealism Dual Portraits. One side shows how they feel others see them on the outside, and one side shows how they feel on the inside.

Line Unit

Kindergarteners are learning about all types of lines through multiple activities.

Basquiat Portraits

Students learned about Jean-Michel Basquiat and created Neo-Expressionist Portraits inspired by him.

Symmetry Unit

 Creating symmetrical designs and 2D vs. 3D Shapes

Hispanic Heritage Month

 Students created a hallway mural together, educating lower school students. 

Street Artist: Buff Monster From Street to Gallery! 

Students are creating a "Melty Misfit" - one of Buff Monster's signature creations.

Salvador Dali Surrealism Portraits

Students have been learning about Spanish Surrealism artist, Salvador Dali.