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Thursday, March 6
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Afternoon Session:
12:20 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Evening Session:
4:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
COME to LIFE
Art Clubs Collaborate
Our 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade Art Clubs along with some members from Ms. Estrella's bilingual class collaborated to produce this gorgeous artwork in support of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection's Water Resources Art and Poetry, Clean Water Contest. Directed by Ms. Ahmed and me, the artwork is 74 1/8 " x 54 1/8" and depicts a variety of sea life swimming harmoniously. It includes wildlife that had left the New York City area, but are now returning e.g., whales, seals and dolphins due to the Department's efforts to improve the water quality in our area. This 5-borough Art Contest will be judged in April and student "Water Champions" will named, who we hope to be among.
We are also planning to submit this artwork to Senator Rivera's office in support of the senate's Earth Day campaign. This year’s theme is “Our Power, Our Planet!” K-12 schools are invited to teach children about the problems and solutions of environmental change and to make a poster that could be used as part of the campaign. Everyone knows clean water is vital for life and since the NYC Department of Environmental Protection is helping to improve the water quality in our area and bring life back into our waters, this artwork also aligns with the Earth Day theme.
Sc Kinders
Sc Kinders
Medusa Relief Sculptures
To gain practice in drawing and sculpting using wavy lines, our SC Kindergarten students created a relief sculpture of Medusa, a character from ancient Greek legends. They practiced drawing wavy lines on a colorful scratch sheet, then drew wavy lines on an illustration of Medusa’s head with metallic Sharpies. Then they sculpted wavy snake shapes with Model Magic and attached them to Medusa’s head to suggest how her hair was changed into living snakes in the legendary story, producing a sculpture in relief. A relief sculpture is different from a regular sculpture in that it projects 3-dimensionally from a flat background. Lastly, our young artists painted their artworks with metallic paints to suggest the bronze sculptures of Medusa, seen in museums around the world.
SC Kinders &
SC Kinders &
SC First Grade
SC First Grade
Snail Relief Sculptures
Relief sculpting continued as students learned to make coils with air dry clay, shaped to look like snails inspired by children's literature, Snail Trail by Jo Saxton. In the story, an art-loving snail adventures out to see art he thinks is based on him. The reader journeys through modern art seeing famous paintings by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso and more. The story ends at a painting by Henri Matisse the snail believes is of him. In addition to sculpting, students learned about the snail's habitat and created one with a sculpted mushroom and Earth materials in recognition of Earth Day next month. This lesson helps children feel more connected to the Earth and empathetic towards snails.
Kindergraten
Kindergraten
Claude Monet-inspired
Water Lily and Butterfly Paper Sculpture
Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism, an art movement which began during the late19th century in which artists captured impressions of people, places and things in light colors. Monet was fascinated with light and color and he painted with short, quick brushstrokes, completing over 2,000 paintings during his life. He produced over 250 paintings of water lilies including 12 huge ones installed in the Museum L’Orangerie in Paris.
Inspired by Monet's lily paintings, our students used light and dark blue paint sticks to create a background of water applying short strokes like Monet. They also manipulated paper to sculpt a lily flower and leaf and added a paper napkin butterfly, which they made with a pipe cleaner and decorated with beads and markers.
SC First Grade
SC First Grade
Ice Crystal Relief Sculptures
Did you know that no two ice crystals are the same? In 1885, Wilson Bentley took the first photographs of snow crystals at the microscopic level. His photographs show that while each crystal has six parts extending out from a center, the way each ice crystal is formed, is completely different from any other.
Inspired by real ice crystals, SC 1st and 2nd grade students used a variety of objects to suggest an ice crystal sculpture in relief. A relief sculpture is different from a regular sculpture in that it projects from a flat background. Students glued a variety of “found” pieces e.g., glue caps, washers, popsicle sticks, cotton balls, foam, beads, gemstones, etc., spreading out from a center in six parts to suggest an ice crystal. They painted their artworks with cool colors – dark greens, blues and purples, then added sparkly silver and blue glitter paint and dust to complete the look.
second grade
second grade
Radial Flowers
With the arrival of Spring, we are thinking about warmer weather and the arrival of new beginnings in nature. With this thought in mind, second grade students were challenged to draw radial flowers created by drawing a circle and then rotating shapes around the center in increasing larger layers to create a composition. Students drew freely with black Sharpie markers, following directed drawings, but also inventing new radial flowers of their own. The students colored their flowers with watercolor crayons which they later applied water to change the color and texture into paint producing these amazing results.
5th Grade Forests
5th Grade Forests
Our Bi-lingual 4th and 5th grade students learned about atmospheric perspective – a way to create the illusion of space by creating images lighter, smaller and less detailed as they are seen in the distance. Students painted three distinct areas of trees in a foreground, midground, and background compositionally placed from bottom to top of the paper to demonstrate this concept, discovered during the Renaissance.
Students practiced drawing trees then followed color theory and painted a color value scale detailing a hue that was changed into a tint and shade by adding white or black paint. Understanding how to manipulate colors, draw trees, and apply atmospheric perspective, students began to paint landscapes. They created light tints to paint smaller background trees, placed highest on their papers; mid-ranged hues for the mid-sized, midground trees, positioned centrally on their papers; and darkest shaded, and largest sized trees painted on the lower area of their papers to produce these gorgeous forest landscapes in perspective.
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