Art
Hi to all KES Artists!
KES Annual Art Show 2020 Edition!
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Fun Try Its for May 26 to May 29
K-3 Try Its - Find them on Seesaw under your Class Kindergarten Art, 1P Art, or 1C Art
On Seesaw, Suess Yourself - A fun activity in which you take a picture of yourself and make yourself into a Suess Character!
On Seesaw, Butterfly Lines of Symmetry - Learn about Symmetry, or "same- e- try" ...things that are exactly the same on both sides ...and then try to make the butterfly the same on both sides on your ipad screen.
Faith Ringold Art Sharing - Look at the beautiful artwork of Faith Ringold, a famous African American artist and quilt maker, and tell us what you think about her work.
4-5 Try Its on Seesaw (Find them under your class under 4 P Art, or 5D Art)
On Seesaw -Japanese Origami with Mrs Nguyen Mrs Nguyen shows you how to create three basic shapes in origami that can be used to create a mandala, or radial symmetry origami art piece by arranging many of your small folded papers in a sun like, radiating design.
On Seesaw Just for Fun!! Create Your Own Crazy Hair Make yourself a funky hairdo, and send it to us on Seesaw!
KES Caring for April and May:
Let's Spread Kindness! Create Cards for Exeter Center!
Create two happy, colorful, "thinking of you" kindness cards or small posters. One for a resident (a person that lives there), and one for a staff member of our local nursing home facility, Exeter Center. KES has "adopted' this facility for this "Social Distancing Spring." Other facilities are being adopted by other schools in NH.
Please address to "Friend at Exeter Center," or "Nurse at Exeter Center." Other staff possibilities... Custodian, OT, PT, Cafeteria Cook, Doctor, LNA, Activities Director, Receptionist etc)
Address: Exeter Center, 8 Hampton Rd, Exeter, NH 03833! (It is a Genesis facility.)
We would love to have all of our students show caring and kindness to the folks that live and work at this local nursing facility. It is a lonely and stressful time for all of the residents and staff that work in the facility, because they cannot have any visitors and cannot do any of their normal, gathering activities.
We can let them know that we are thinking of them!! Please make an absolutely, awesome card for a resident, and a fantastic one for a staff member. Older students should consider adding a pop up surprise, a fold out, or a window cut out in the cards. Please sign them with your first name, or with "Your Friend at Kensington Elementary School" and send them to the address listed above. For a "double header" please post your happy, care cards to Seesaw, so that we all can see them!
You can also drop them off also, by ringing the doorbell on the front of the Genesis Exeter Center (near and on the same side of the street as Churchill's Garden Center and the Exeter Tennis Courts and Playground.) No one is allowed to enter the building other than staff and residents.
They will set the cards or posters aside for a day or two for health cautiousness, and then deliver them to the happy recipients!
Let's Rock This With Our Big KES Hearts and Creative Minds!!
Remember, clean up your mess at home, just like you do in the art room!! Keep being amazing artists!! I will love to see what you have created on See Saw!
Try It Grades K-5 (Monday May 18-May 22)
Get Ready to Honor Our Heroes in Kensington!!
Let's fill our town with signs that let all of our heroes know that we care!
We are one week away from Memorial Day! Get ready for the week of Memorial Day by creating a Thank You, Heroes Sign! This is to be put out on your lawn for the residents of Kensington to see over the week of May 22 to May 29.
Please honor our war heroes that gave their lives for our freedom, our EMTs (ambulance workers,) our firefighters, soldiers, scientists, biologists, policemen, nurses, doctors, hospital staff, food workers, and delivery people.
Materials: Light colored cardboard and permanent markers, sharpies, craypas or crayons
Make a large lettered, bright, colorful, cheerful sign to post in front of your home to Honor Our Heroes! Please use Lettering that is wide and thick like block lettering so that it can be read from the road as people are passing by your home or apartment.
If you have an American Flag, or a New Hampshire Flag, crepe paper, or balloons place them around your sign for eye catching wonder! Please post a picture of you and your sign on Seesaw so that we can see your hard work. Our heroes will be so happy that you have noticed all that they have done for our country and its people.
K-5 Try It (Monday, May 18-Friday, May 22)
Design a fantastic statue that honors our heroes during this time.
There is a famous statue in Washington, D.C., the capitol of the USA, that shows six people holding up the American Flag at a time when our country was struggling. The statue is called the Marine Corps Memorial, and it helps us remember the people who worked very hard to help our country over sixty years ago. Our country also has a lot of great helpers right now. Can you design a memorial statue for all of the people that are helping the country now?
Step One- Think about who you would like to honor by including them in your statue design....our veterans, soldiers that gave their lives for our country, nurses, policemen, delivery drivers, food workers, doctors, food distributors, truck drivers, biologists, scientists, firemen, hospital staff, cooks, homeless shelter workers and many more....Think about your backgound, too. Sunset, fireworks...what would you like to see behind your statue?
Step Two- Get out your watercolor paints, white paper, a paper napkin and a bit of water in a mug. Wet the napkin and dip it in a color of watercolor for your sky.... and then after your grass... blot it up and down on the paper. Let that background dry for few hours.
Step Three- Lay down your hand, in whatever position that you would like your flag to be placed on your background. Trace around your hand, then draw the pole, the stripes, the field for the stars, and the stars.
Step Four- Use the Olive S. Pickle method to draw your favorite people to be honored by holding our US flag steady.
Step Five- Use a sharpie, markers or crayons to complete your picture.
Please take a picture of it and post it to SEESAW, and then give it to a very hardworking person that is helping our country during this time.
Try it for May 11-May 15
Create a 3-D Playground Sculpture with Paper Strips!
Materials: Colored or white paper, a piece of cardboard, kid friendly scissors, and glue stick or glue
What would you like to create with your paper strips? You could create an awesome playground, an amusement park, a series of slides, or an abstract design!
Step One- Find a piece of construction paper or cardboard that you can use as a base, or the "ground" for your sculpture. You can color or decorate the base before you start cutting the paper strips. I used black cardboard for my base, but you can use any color or paper that is a bit stiff. Look in your recycling bin!
Step Two- Cut 8 to 10 different sized and colored strips out of different papers. Some strips can be cut zigzagged or curvy and can be folded up like a fan or accordion, or curled up on the edge of a pair of kids' scissors. Different colors and shapes, and lines make your sculpture more interesting to the eye. The colors of paper or magazine strips that you create will also add interest to your sculpture.
Step Three- Give variety to your strips by coloring designs on them with markers, cutting them curvy or jagged with scissors, or cutting them shaggy like eyelashes or a crazy haircut.
Step Four- Start to build your playground or abstract creation by gluing down the ends of the strips in an interesting design. Twist and fold the strips. Loops can move inside one another, slides can slip in many directions, or connect with one another. You can create tubes, too!
Step Five- Make a little paper person of yourself and your friends. They can have a great time playing on your creation!
Please post your creation on Seesaw!
2-5 Try It (Monday, May 11-Friday, May 15)
Create Your Nature Mandala (A circle of nature items that radiate like sun rays from a center)
Materials: Items that you find in nature (shells, acorns, pine cones, pods, leaves, flowers that your parents say it is OK to pick, an old bird's nest, egg shells, grasses, rocks, moss, sticks, etc...) Your Ipad or camera or cell phone to take a picture of your mandala, and your index finger to post it to Seesaw!
Creating a mandala is an calming exercise in balance, unity and harmony. Enjoy the experience of collecting your natural materials. Collect over a few days, and a few outings. Take your time collecting, and pick flowers or leaves at the last minute. Try to get at least six of the things you find.
Arrange your natural items in a circle with a center piece, and many objects or lines that radiate from the center. We also call this radial symmetry! Play around with it until it gives you a sense of harmony, and unity! Once you have a mandala that pleases you, take a picture of it. The picture can be used to create cards, or a poster, or just post it to Seesaw!
K-2 Try Its-Monday, May 4th to Friday, May 8th
Cavemen were great artists too! Draw and Paint Like Cavemen!!
If you were a caveman, what would you draw or paint about on your cave walls? Cave art is found all around the world, but some of the very oldest are abut 20,000 years old....that is Very OLD! It is in a cave (Lascaux Caves) discovered by three boys and their dog named "Robot" in Southern France!
We think that cavemen might have thought that drawing an animal would magically help them capture it in the woods or fields around their cave. It also may be a drawn history of the hunting, or storms, or adventures that the caveman or woman experienced. If you can, watch this video by National Geographic on Cave Paintings.
To Create Your Own Cave Painting:
Materials needed : A brown paper bag or brown paper, dirt and water or ground coffee to make your brown paper look like a cave wall, a pencil, and brown, burnt umber, black orange yellow red and white crayons or craypas.
Step One Take a brown paper bag or brown paper and cut an irregular shape that is about a foot by a foot or a foot by eight inches. Squish up your brown paper from paper bag, squish in some dirt and water or coffee grounds to make it look old. Flatten it out and let it dry. Remember to clean up the mess you have made.
Step Two While it is drying, imagine the animals and people that you might hunt, or hunt with, if you were a cave person.
Step Three Draw a number of your animals, and fellow cave people, or weather on your brown paper. Using your best muscles, color them in well with earth colors (browns, black, red, orange, white,... cave people used minerals and soft rocks they could find in and around the cave...charcoal, red ochre, yellow ochre, hematite and manganese oxide.) Imagine yourself as a Cave person, ready to explore a favorite mountain, pound out a tool, or hunt for something to eat and to help you stay warm.
Try It for 3-5th Grades Monday, May 4 - Friday, May 8th
Create an Awesome Glue Relief Painting!
Step 1. Draw a picture on a smooth piece of cardboard. (Keep your drawing fairly simple because you will be drawing white glue lines over all of your drawing lines.)
Step 2. Cover all of your lines with glue. Try not to smear the glue lines, and allow to dry overnight.
Step 3. Paint over the whole design with acrylic paint, craft paint, or tempera paint. Allow to dry.
Step 4. (Use an old glove for this step) Take an old cloth or tissue and lightly spread black shoe polish on your dry painted picture.
Step 5. Wipe off as much of the black polish as you wish while leaving some in the cracks and crevices. That shoe polish left behind makes it look a bit antique (old) or burnished (polished by rubbing.) We would love to see your creation on Seesaw! (Photos below)
K-2 Try It (April 20 to April 24)
Spring is a Great Time to Draw a Tree in Your Yard!
This time of year it is so easy to see a tree's trunk and branches! It makes it a lot easier to figure out how to draw any tree in your yard.
Your tree will be a bit different from my example, but just follow the five steps on these two pages, and make changes if your trunk is thicker than mine, or your branches or trunk reach out in a different way. Remember that in nature there are not many straight lines, so do not worry about making your lines completely straight.
After you have drawn your tree with a pencil, you can use an ink pen, magic marker, crayons, or colored pencils to add the texture of the bark, or the leaves or grasses blowing in the wind!
If you are making bark, look hard at the bark and use grays, browns and blacks all mixed together. If you are making grass, look at grass and color all the colors that you see in grass...yellow? dark green? light green? and brown? Please post a picture of your favorite tree drawing on Seesaw for everyone to see!
Steps 1 and 2
Steps 3, 4, and 5
2nd - 5th Grade Try It (April 20 to May 1)
What are your Animal Spirits?
Many Native Peoples have felt strongly that humans are connected to certain animal spirits and characteristics. For example the Tlingits used them in their totem poles, and the Hopi used them in their Kachinas.
Include Your Two Animal Spirits in a Self Portrait like the famous Texan artist, Cesar Martinez, created in his painting, El Mestizo (1987.) What two animal spirits did Cesar chose? What background did he paint? How did he combine his face with the face of his animal spirits?
1 - Draw your own portrait in the middle of the page while looking in a mirror. Leave enough space at the bottom and top of the paper and on either side for two more animals heads and for their horns, feathers or whatever you may be adding as well as the background. Look to see what shape your face is, what shape your chin is, draw it, and draw your eyes half way down from the top of your head.
Draw the bottom of your nose half way between your eyes, and the bottom of your chin. Draw your mouth half way between your nose and the bottom of your chin.
2 - Overlap the left eye of one animal on the right side of your face, and overlap the right eye of the other animal spirit on the left eye of your face. Once both of your animals are drawn, decide what you would like to do with the background pattern.
3 - Finish it off with sharpie, or ink pen, then colored pencils, watercolor, or crayons. Please post it to Seesaw!
3 -5 Try It (April 20 to 24)
Have Fun and Calm Your Nerves with Zentangle!
Zentangle is much more than just doodling with patterns. It is also a great way to relieve stress, calm your frazzled nerves, and have a good time! Take your time, make "boo-boos"/mistakes turn into something else, and relaaaaaaax!
You can use a pencil, a ball point pen, a sharpie or colored markers. You should have gotten a packet on Zentangle in your bag on Friday, April 8th. If you cannot find the papers, just use blank white paper, and use the examples on this page. The outside border can be any shape at all.
It is a fun idea to make a frame that has Zentangle around the outside of the central picture or photo. Use your last page of the packet to create a Zentangle frame for a photo or picture that you have made. Please post your Zentangle on Seesaw so that we can all enjoy it!
K-2 Try Its - April 13 to April 17th
Franz Marc was an artist that loved animals and loved to show their feelings in his paintings. He used brilliant colors to show that the animal was happy, sad, or angry. He knew how to make animals look just the way they appeared in the field, but that did not seem interesting to him. He wanted to paint the world through the eyes and feelings of the animals that he adored. Does his yellow purple spotted cow look like he is happy or sad? How do you like the background colors that Franz used? Do the colors make you think of a sunny, happy day, or an angry, sad day? Do you see many interesting shapes in the background?
K-2 Try It: Create an Expressive Animal Painting like Franz Marc!
What animals do you love? Pick an animal or animals that you love. Create a painting like Franz Marc by drawing several of those animals in different positions on your paper. 1. Using your muscles, color those animals in with crayons...use colors that show the animal's feelings. Try to color most parts of the animal using your very strongest muscle power, but the animal faces could be done lightly so that you can put the eyes and mouth in with your muscle power. Remember that you made the lines, so stay inside them the best that you can!
2. With your crayon pressed down hard, draw the many hills and mountains behind your animal.
By pressing hard with the crayon as you color, you will be preparing the animals for the next part in which you will paint with bright watercolors over all of your background and animals. Don't worry, your crayons will not let the watercolor ruin your animals. It resists the watercolor.
3. Paint over the entire picture with bright watercolors. Paint right over your animals, and hill lines until the whole picture is painted with your bright expressive colors of feelings! Check to make sure that you do not have any "little ghosties" flying around your painting...paint them all in!
Congratulations! You have just painted like Franz Marc, a famous German Painter that lived over one hundred years ago!!! His cow painting is simply titled "Yellow Cow." His horse painting is called "The Large Blue Horses." What would you call your painting? Post your animal painting to Seesaw, so we all can enjoy it!
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Try It K-2: Create a Color Wheel like Carter did!
Create it from Things in Your Home, and Post it to Seesaw!
Once your color wheel is created, play with it and see what colored things you think look the best together.
Why do they look great together? Are they your favorite colors? Are they complementary colors which sit across from each other on the color wheel, and have a lot of contrast or difference? Our holiday and sports team colors are often complementary colors! Can you name some of them?
Do they look great together because they are side by side on the color wheel? (Analogous Colors) Can you name three colors that sit side by side on the color wheel that look great together?
Take a picture, and post your color wheel to Seesaw! Make sure that you help to put all of the household items back where they belong. :)
Try It for Grade 3 - 5 (April 13 - 17)
Rube Goldberg Challenge!
Create and Label Your Own Crazy Invention on Paper in the Style of Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg was a famous cartoonist, sculptor, engineer and inventor. He is known well for his entertaining cartoons that illustrate funny, complicated ways to make simple things happen. Before the invention of the remote control, he drew a cartoon for a complicated way to sit on the couch and change the television, or turn it on. On a United States postage stamp, there is a Rube Goldberg cartoon illustrating how a man can launch a rocket to the moon by sipping on some soup!
You received a Rube Goldberg Packet in your take home bag on April 3rd. (If you cannot find it, just use regular white paper to create your invention.) The packet has three papers that you can glue together to make one very long cartoon.
Create your own cartoon invention. It can be as long as you wish. Title it and label the different operations on your invention with A, B, C, D, etc. Please write the description of what occurs at A, B, C etc on the bottom of your cartoon. It would be fun if you can post it to Seesaw so we all can enjoy your creativity!
K-2: Two different Try Its - April 1st - April 8th
Draw Yourself as a Superhero Flying through Some Crazy Weather!!
(Materials needed: Any white or light colored paper, a pencil and any coloring materials that you want to use.)
What would you name this crazy weather? What are your superhero powers? Are you able to fly straight in the weather? Remember to try to use the Olive Pickle Method for drawing your superhero instead of stick people.
Are you able to use your superhero powers to calm down the crazy weather? If you can calm it down, draw another picture of what you would do as a superhero after the crazy weather calmed down. There is a famous artist named Marc Chagall that loved to paint pictures of his townspeople flying over the town. He felt that the people needed a way to have more fun and happiness, so he paints them joyfully flying over the town. Do you think Marc Chagall had a good imagination? Please watch this video of a very small child that is seeing one of Marc Chagall's paintings for the very first time. So cute!
Do you like the way Marc Chagall used different shapes in his painting? Which colors pop out the most to you? Do they balance with other colors in the painting?
We would love to see you share your Artwork on Seesaw!
Try It - Special Skills Animal Collage!
( Materials: a piece of paper of any color, old magazines, glue stick, and scissors) If you do not have old magazines, you can print some pictures of animals on your computer and cut them up, or simply draw your animal on a piece of light colored paper.
Ask your parents if they have a few old magazines that you can cut up....you can cut out animal body parts or draw and create your own body part from a picture of a fuzzy blanket, or make a beak from a picture of an orange! Create and glue together a new animal for this world that has special body parts that help it to live in its homeland or habitat....maybe it can climb trees easily because it has big claws, or maybe it can get dry and keep cool by spreading its large wings, or leap with its large legs, hear well with giant ears, reach in a tiny spot with skinny, long fingers, or maybe it can hold lots of food in its big, stretching mouth. There are lots of ways that animals are ready for the place and other creatures that they know. Show our world the animal that you would create! What are you naming the new animal....for example, 'Red Spotted Pickleback Fuzzwhacker.' Write the name on your paper, and list the special skills that the animal has since they have these awesome body parts!
We would love to see your artwork on Seesaw!
Grades 3-5: April 1st - April 8th
Try It - Building Architecture and/or an Abstract Design with Cardboard Printing
(Materials needed : A piece of stiff one layer cardboard, one color of paint, a few pieces of white or light colored paper, (dark paper if you are using white or light paint) a paper/plastic disposable plate for spreading some paint around in a thin layer for dipping cardboard edge in paint)
An art shirt is recommended on this project...a big old t shirt is perfect!
Cut your cardboard in approximately two inch by three inch, or one inch by two inch rectangles. Make sure that the edges of your rectangles and squares are straight. Curvy does not work. You can also cut grooves in the cardboard. Put some paint on a disposable plate that contrasts ( dark paint on light paper, or light paint on dark paper.) Spread the paint out thinly. It should not be thick on the plate. Practice on a spare piece of paper by dipping the cardboard edge into what you have spread out on the plate. ( Please Control Yourself during paint time....A little dab of paint spread out on the plate, and a dip of the straight cardboard edge into the paint, creates a cardboard printing tool.)
Create your OWN city, building of the future, dream home, picture of your choice, or abstract design. Have fun with it!! If you have time, make more than one tool, and more than one picture! Please post it on Seesaw if you have the chance to share it. Remember that only school appropriate art can be shared on Seesaw.
K - 5 Art Try It: Create A Spring Snow Creature (If it snows again...)
(With parental permission) Wear your oldest, darkest jacket. Go outside on a snow covered day equipped with a clean spray bottle of water only, and some liquid food colors (if you have them, no worries if you do not.) Create a snow animal/creature before the snow melts, (or if it snows again another day!) If you have food coloring, place ten drops of one food coloring in the water filled spray bottle. Start with a primary color (red, yellow, blue,)...spray your creation, then see what happens when you add another primary color! Spray your snow creature!...add another primary color, and see what happens then! If you wish to share your creation, post your school appropriate creations to Seesaw.
K - 2 Art Websites to Try Out!
K-5 TRY ITs for Week of March 23
K - 2 Try It #2 -Art Activity from Mrs. Beauchemin:
During the time period of March 22nd to April 1st, Try It #2! (Parents, please know that we realize that these times are tough. At this time, please only do the activities that work for you and your family. Please feel free to have your child post any of the projects that he/she is excited to share on See Saw. (Remind your students that only appropriate drawings should be posted.)
Treasure Hunt: Find two objects around your home that have a funny outside shape...maybe pick one that is hard, and one that is soft. Try drawing the complete outside line of the object, (which is called the outline,) and then add the details that you see inside the object. Try to make it look "very real"...or realistic. Make your two drawings look as much like the objects in front of you as you possibly can! This is a fun challenge!
3rd Grade through 5th Grade Art Try It #2
Add Head Tilt and Try New Expressions
Please take one of the comic strip book characters that you created, and try to draw him/her with many different expressions (jubilant, angry, fretful, exhausted, pouting etc) and different head tilt angles. The head tilt comes from creating a " t" cross on the head and lowering or moving the eye line, nose line from top to bottom, or side to side. If you would like to share your comic strip to Seesaw, please do, but only if it is appropriate for school. Some spring board ideas are found in my illustration.
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Drawing site to Try!
A fun site to try online is "Draw Everyday with JJK." He shows you how to draw awesome characters and comics. JJK has been a book illustrator since he was a kid, and shows his work from his very beginnings to the present.
