Primary Art

Learning about Art!

Primary students come to art once a week, with the kindergarteners having art class for 45 minutes, and first and second graders will have art for an hour. We will be using a variety of art materials to create 2-D and 3-D art. They will be experimenting with a variety of tools to create marks on their papers as they explore the Elements of Art. Surprising them with such odd art tools as forks, foil, toothpicks, bits of sponges, etc. really gets them interested in creating art and having an interesting story to tell about how they made their art.

Kindergarten Art

Watercolor Pomegranate

Kindergarteners practiced drawing shapes to have a pomegranate to paint using watercolor paints.

And sometimes art is messy, making it more fun!

Kindergarteners learned how to work with chalky pastels to draw a walrus. We reviewed cool colors and learned how to blend some of the colors.

First Grade Art

First Graders were introduced to American artist Jeff Weir. Jeff lives in Idaho and paints wildlife and landscapes. They love his bear paintings! I think that this art lesson is one of my all time favorites!

This painting project begins with painting a photo bombing bear in the forest. We have painted the ground with falling leaves using warm colors and will paint Aspen trees in the next class to glue on the background. This is one of our all time favorite painting lessons and the kids were good as gold, I see much more painting in our future!

Examples of Jeff's paintings.

First graders used clay to shape their turtles for their sculpture project. They really enjoyed working with clay and in the photos they are in the process of glazing their turtles using a variety of colors.

Second Grade Art

In the fall we see the beauty of the world around us that God has created. This lesson is called Reflections of Fall. They begin with learning how to draw trees in oil pastels then transfer the trees to the bottom half of the paper to be the reflection of the trees in the surface of the water. This was magic and they loved the results. Their favorite part was the big reveal after folding their paper to make the paint transfer to the bottom half of the paper.

Dean Russo inspired tigers

Second graders learned how to draw and color a tiger head using pencil, paint sticks, chalky pastels and liquid starch to blend the colors and help them to not smear.

Their works were wonderful and impressive.

Sometimes we experiment with unexpected art supplies to create our art. Straws, sponges, Q-Tips, toothbrushes, and cardboard as possible painting tools caught the students off guard, but they tried them and were surprised by the results when they painted their birds and the Japanese Cherry Blossom Fan projects.

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