Mr. Mills Blog

This week, Ms. Fischer began her five week stint as my student teacher. The 3rd and 4th grade students learned about the work of Alexander Calder. Calder was famous for making mobiles. He also created contour line wire portraits. A contour line is one continuos line. The students practiced using contour lines this week by drawing other students in class. They had to draw the faces without lifting their pen off of the paper. One of these drawings will become a contour line wire sculpture they will make next week.

The 5th and 6th grade students are making artist trading cards. Aritst trading cards are cards created by artists that are then traded. They can not be bought or sold…they have to be traded. The students practices some different techniques this week in preparation for making their own artist trading cards next week. They glued down images and text, added texture to images with sandpaper, added water to tempera paint to make the paint transparent, and identified complimentary colors.

Until next week…