EM Update: Art

 

2^nd graders Barrett White, Emmet Schlegelmilch, and Leo Nicholas

2^nd graders Penelope Harrison and Emma Case

1st graders Cora Foutch, Baylor Johnson, Karch Arbuck, Kyah Rischling and Kolbie Kahlandt

 1^st graders Ava Capek, Katelynn Lock, and Addyson Zoubek,

6^th graders Landri Johnson, Kora Havel, Saydee Kassik and Brooklyn Lawson

Artrageous!

By Lisa Kanode, Exeter-Milligan K-12 Art Instructor

 

We are being "Artrageous" in the art room this year! From Kindergarten to 4th year High School artists, I love to see all the creative ideas when they walk into the art room. Besides taking risks and refining their ideas, students are learning about the basics. We are studying color theory, elements and principles of design, and personal reflection and feelings. Each grade has also started learning about some great 19th-century artists such as Claude Monet, Vincent VanGogh, and Piet Mondrian. I am probably most proud of the fact that no kid's art looks like the others. I share an idea and show them techniques, but they usually run with it in their own direction. Kindergarteners have practiced drawing, cutting, and gluing. They have learned about Piet Mondrian and dinosaurs and geometric shapes already this year! 1st graders have worked with primary colors and geometric shapes. They have also learned about texture and collage with a torn paper teddy bear project. They have been working on writing an artist statement describing what their teddy bear looks like and feels like. 2nd graders have studied Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night and they also used symmetry and photo expressions with their friends as they posed in their hot air balloons. 3rd graders studied many different types of lines as they created a portrait on a crazy hair day. They also learned about Claude Monet, they recreated his Poplar Trees or The Water Lily Pond. 4th graders practiced contour line by looking at their shoes, while they drew them. Foil art with glue lines is what they are working on now. 5th graders are learning about horizon lines, paint blending and radial symmetry. 6th graders have been very busy, besides color wheels they have created self interest profiles and now are learning about grid drawing with Pop Art. 7th graders are getting ready to work on 2 point perspective. They have already studied the elements and principles of art and created a contour line drawing of their instruments. Finally, the High School students have been doing a variety of sculpture, painting, and drawing.

 

 

Pictured you can see the 1st graders learning to mix primary colors by texture shading geometric shapes to overlap the primary colors. Oil pastels are bright, messy crayons, so we also learn to be careful and keep them in their containers when we are not working with them. Also pictured is the 6th graders painting their color swatches. They used the primary color and had to mix and make secondary and intermediate colors to make a color wheel. Finally, you see 2nd graders posing for their hot air balloon rides.