Walt Disney was an artist! Watch the video below to see how he made cartoon movies. On the Disney website, create yourself as a cartoon character. If you do not want to use the website, you can draw yourself on paper. Share your art on Flipgrid, or email it to Ms. K.
If you have ever seen a spider web, you have seen art in nature! What shapes do you see? What lines do you see? Do you know what the positive space is? Do you know what the negative space is? Watch "Sophie's Masterpiece," by CCH Pounder. Create your own spider web with different designs. You may do this in one of the following ways: When you finish, if you want to share your art, you can do so on Flipgrid.
Follow the recipe card to read the painting, "Boom Bastic," by Hebru Brantley. Make yourself a viewfinder to investigate the world around you! Look for areas outside or inside that look interesting in your viewfinder. You may use any material to make the viewfinder, and can decorate it. If you want to share your art, you may do so on Flipgrid. Artists use many different skills and techniques in their artwork. We are going to practice these so that we know how to use them in our art. These skills and techniques are made using the Elements of Art. Follow the recipe card:
Since Dia de los Muertos is at the beginning of November, the first graders spent the start of the year creating a project to celebrate this day. They finished just in time for the Mexican holiday! There were two projects made together: a clay sugar skull, and a sugar skull drawing. Sugar skulls are visually stunning with their elaborate details and play an important role in the holiday. To see pictures, visit my Twitter or this link: https://twitter.com/mskartroom/status/920727943730561024 To celebrate fall the first graders created little pumpkins that are now on display near Windsor's office (the Windsor Pumpkin Patch). Students used the pinch pot method to carefully pinch their clay to create a rounded hollow shape perfect for a pumpkin. They then painted their pumpkins either a dark orange (shade), or light orange (tint).
We were so excited about spring beginning that we made even more flowers! This time we did not use paint. Instead we learned about the Mexican art of paper flower making. Typically paper flowers are made for special events, which sounds better to me because the beauty of paper flowers lasts forever!
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