Students have been wrapping sticks with yarn and fibers which are being used by the artist to construct a fence at the Watermill Center in Water Mill, NY.

The Watermill Center grounds remain open to visitors daily. If anyone would like to visit, grounds are located at 39 Water Mill Towd Rd, Water Mill, NY.

More information can be found at watermillcenter.org.

Following our work with contour lines, we began looking at Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein. We discussed his comic book style contributions to the art world, his position as an artist on the East End, and what it means to be a Pop Artist.

Students then photographed themselves and created self portraits inspired by his lines, use of color, and pop art style.

They did an amazing job and worked so hard! So proud of our 5th graders!

In January we focused on Contour Line drawing and had a lot of find practicing Blind Contour Drawings! Blind contour drawings are when we are looking only at our subject (or what we're drawing), and not our paper. Also, we are not allowed to lift our pen or pencil until we are finished drawing. While it's very challenging (and produces some very fun results!), this practice refines out drawing skills and helps us to draw what we see and not what we think we see.

This week we began looking at graffiti and street art, debating whether all graffiti is vandalism, and if graffiti is old or new.

In the next few weeks, students will work on a text based artwork inspired by the graffiti we investigated.