Take a look at some of our art projects this year:

Basquiat-inspired Art

This month we have been honouring Black History and learning about influential artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat. An African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement, Basquiat's art looks like a mix of street graffiti and drawing. It often features chaotic, energetic, colourful, and meaningful images. He frequently drew a simple three-pointed yellow crown in his paintings to represent, honour, or show respect. We were inspired after taking a look at his art to create our own graffiti style work using oil pastels, adding his iconic crown, and words that express ways to show love and kindness in celebration of kindness month and Valentine's Day.

cardboard, oil pastel

Moonbots

This week we have been learning all about the moon, including the moon phases, role in our solar system, and interesting moon facts. We had a little fun today creating imaginative moonbots in art class. For this project, we practiced planning and designing our creatures, then forming the moon, craters, and characters with plasticine.

mat board, plasticine

Constellation Stories

Last week we focused our learning about the night sky to explore the sun and other stars. For this art project, students learned about the night sky by creating their own constellations. In class, we have been reading stories and learning about how constellations have been used by many cultures and wayfinders. The artists chose an animal image and used oil pastels to draw lines connecting star points, just as they might appear in the sky. A wash of warm or cool watercolour paint and sparkling stars brought each constellation to life. The students then created their own stories to accompany their artwork.

oil pastel, watercolours, gemstones, acrylic paint

Patterned Winter Toques

This month we have been working on recognizing and creating shape, number, and colour patterns. Can you find them all in our wintery toques?

sharpie, crayons, pompoms

Scratch Art Fireworks

Happy new year! For our first project of the year, we learned how to make our own scratch paper, using oil pastels to create a bright background, and then painting a special solution of paint and soap on top. Once dry, we were able to scratch our own fireworks display into the paper, using real fireworks images and videos as inspiration.

oil pastel, tempera paint, soap, scratching tools

Patterned Santa Collages

Today we created Santa collages using painted paper, oil pastels, sharpies, and glue. This project really practiced our scissor skills, as well as the art of composition when arranging many pieces in a collage. The artists did a great job creating their patterned papers with paint sticks, as well as putting all of the pieces together with care. Enjoy our cute and creative Santa art!

temper paint pens, oil pastel, sharpie, assorted paper

Winter Branch Art

Our winter branches were inspired by all of the evergreens and berries that we have been seeing outside our classroom and during outdoor learning time. This week we learned about the different types of trees, and how some trees are evergreen and hold on to their leaves. To create this art we used cardboard to print branches and needles. We then added berries with cotton swaps and snow using a splatter technique with icy white paint.

cardboard, tempera paint

A Salmon Sky View

As we learn about all of the different animals involved in a salmon's journey, we were inspired to do a special art activity this week. For this project, we took the perspective of the salmon, considering what they see over a lifetime from egg to spawn. After reading, A Salmon Sky View, by Carol McDougall, we used sharpies to draw the shadows and images seen by the salmon. After that we used a wet on wet technique and cool or warm watercolours to paint the sky. Finally, a sprinkling of salt helped to create a watery affect.

watercolour paint, sharpie, salt

How to Make Friends with a Ghost

This week we read the story, How to Make Friends with a Ghost, by Rebecca Green. In this sweet little tale, the reader learns the best ways to make and take care of friendly ghosts.

Our art project involved a collage of painted leaf prints and line-drawings of webs, spiders, worms, and more. To add depth to our pictures, white and black chalk pastel were used to create shadows and sunlit webs. Finally, our drawing and scissors skills were put to use creating our friendly ghosts.

Tempera paint, sharpie, chalk pastel

Starlit Pumpkins

This week's art activity was all about what one might see in a pumpkin patch at night under the full moon and twinkling stars. This fall-inspired project continued to develop our art skills as we practiced colour mixing, composition, collage, and playing with light and shadows. To do our colour mixing, the artists had fun using only primary colours to make variations of orange and green with red, yellow, and blue paint.

Tempera paint, oil pastel, chalk pastel

Funny Turkeys

A turkey is

a funny bird.

His head goes

wobble, wobble.

The only word

he ever heard is "gobble, gobble,

gobble!"

Sharpie directed draw, crayon

Our Class Hive

We have been busy bees in Div. 6, learning about each other through our 'all about me' bags, and building our classroom community. Last week we read stories and learned how bees work as a team to help each other, do important jobs, and take care of their community. For this art project, we created our own little bees and practiced using our scissor, glue and assembling skills.

sharpie, watercolour paint, printed paper

Dot Day Art

For International Dot Day, we read 'The Dot', by Peter H. Reynolds. The book shares the story of a girl who is encouraged to try something new and take a leap after she is challenged to “make her mark.” During this art activity we practiced trying something new, being brave, and using encouraging and uplifting words with each other and ourselves.

paper coffee filters, crayon, felt pen, water

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