Phun
16 05 2008First of all, I wanted to pass along…I bumped into a great physics/drawing program called Phun. It can eb found on my download page.
Now…on with the show. The 3rd graders were drawing still-life’s this week. The still-life’s are going to be used to make prints from. In preparation to draw the still-life’s, Mr. Brown and I talked about background, middleground, foreground, and overlapping. The prints they eventually make from these drawings are going to be part of a fund raiser for the school. Mr. Brown and I are going to be selling art at the St. Thomas Art Fair on Saturday, June 7th.
The 4th graders are done with their self-portraits. I needed to pick two of the portraits to be displayed at the Art Institute over the summer and I chose to the two works above. Ms. Holzhauer and I are hosting a field trip to the Art Institute where we will be looking about other portraits and self-portraits. Also, we plan on looking at how artists use light and shadow in their paintings.
The 5th graders had their final event for the SmART Explorers project this past week. Thank you to all the students, parents, and family members who attended. Now, we are doing some paintings on small pieces of canvas. The students either have to paint a Chicago or summer scene and they have to use at least two mixed colors. These paintings will also be sold at the St. Thomas Art Fair.
Finally, the 6th graders are still working on their graffiti tags. We have begun to do some airbrushing, so I plan to have all the students use it before we are done with this project. One thing I have been happy about with this project is the new sense of aesthetic I have seen from many of my students. Instead of just sticking with one design, many of them are making the choice to start over or paint something a different way because it did not look right the first. This is one of the first steps to being a very good artist and learning to make artistic decisions on their own without always asking the teacher, “Is this good?”
Until next week.
