5th Grade ABSTRACT STELLA SCULPTURES

 FRANK STELLA 

PAPER SCULPTURES

Artists enjoyed exploring the work of American, abstract artist, Frank Stella. His work transpired over years of building his shapes, and then painting them, cut, tangled, & mangled  and most of them, monumental in size, for all to enjoy. Today, Stella works in his huge studio in upstate New York at the age of 77. The artist says, “A sculpture is just a painting, cut apart and stood up somewhere.” After viewing many of Stella’s work on line, students marveled at his ability to paint shapes with lines, patterns and designs that seem to move and constantly interact and revolve around each other. Using tempera paints, we created an abstract style painting to mimic some of Stella’s ideals and concerns with motion and movement. We then overlay details and specific patterns with oil pastels, cut the painting into pieces and made it work together in a whole new visually exciting abstract sculpture.

Ohio Standards for Art Content:

Perceiving /Knowing (1PE): After exploration and production of abstract art, the student understands that the context of an art object has an effect on how that object is perceived.

Perceiving /Knowing (5PE): During class discussions/review, the student focused on selected artworks of artist, Frank Stella to help identify and pose questions about aesthetic qualities (sensory, organizational, emotional) in their own work.

Producing / Performing (4PR): The student successfully utilized the elements and principles: color, shape, space, value, repetition, movement, and rhythm in their abstract painting/sculpture.

Craftsmanship: The student created a 2 dimensional abstract painting by incorporating unique patterns and designs, then cut, and reorganized their abstract painted pieces neatly into a 3 dimensional work of art with structural integrity.

COOKIES & CANVAS Lake Elementary Fundraiser Event

Lake Elementary Presented….

Cookies and Canvas!

Lake Elementary hosted a Cookies and Canvas fundraiser on

Saturday, November 9^th from 10 am-1 pm.

Adults and their children, grades 4 and up,

were invited to join us for this amazing event!

An experienced artist will be guiding us step-by-step

to create this marvelous work of art,

which you take home to share with your family and friends!

Students proudly display their work from the event.

Eddie concentrated on using all the different brushes that were instructed...

4th GRADE ART

             OP ART PROJECTS:

          Fourth grades artists were amazed by the style of art called OPTICAL Illusions. Inspired by artist, Briget Riley, famous for her bold, black and white contrasting optical illusions, students tried their steadiness at control of the Sharpie art medium and advanced their drawing skills through the use of repetition. Op artists utilize repetition of shapes and lines to create the illusion of rhythm and movement across the canvas. 

Perceiving & Knowing (2PE): The student identified and visually described different visual effects resulting from art making techniques by illustrating VALUE, SPACE, CONTRAST, LINE, and VARIETY.

Producing & Performing (1PR): The student identified, selected, and varied art materials, tools, and processes to achieve the desired result of illusion, rhythm, movement, or form in their artworks.

      Producing & Performing (3PR): The student generated ideas and employed a variety of strategies to solve the visual problem of illustrating optical illusions.

2nd GRADE ART

I AIN'T GONNA PAINT NO MORE!

Inspired by a creative story, I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More, by Karen Beaumont, and influenced by famous artist, Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, students delighted in the

creation of the first self-portrait of the year. I was inspired by a fellow blogger for this project, especially when I saw she had the students "blow paint" the hair of the project. I knew the students would love it! 

Following step by step, students penciled in and utilized proper guidelines to place facial features proportionately correct in their “screaming” portrait. Students discovered how to draw their portrait in a non-typical fashion, in full detail with an open mouth, thus, visually expressing themselves as a screaming person. Students colored and used a straw to "blow paint" the hair in all their creative crazy directions, then carefully outlined the paint to enhance the colors.

Producing/Performing (4PR): The student demonstrates flexibility in his/her creative process and use of art materials (ie, a straw to blow paint, instead of a paint brush)

Responding/Reflecting (5RE): The student visually describes and demonstrates how an artist uses the elements and principles of design to create expressive impact in a work of art. (Famous Artist: Expressionist, Edvard Munch’s, “The Scream”) 

Craftsmanship: Following a step by step drawing procedure, the student drew, colored with oil pastels, and blow painted with a straw neatly, demonstrating proper control and coordination of art materials.

3rd GRADE ART

Mixed Media~ Fantastic Felines  

Students were fascinated by the bright, whimsical paintings of artist, Laurel Burch. A self-taught artist and business woman, she became famous for her art and design in the 1970’s when she started creating metal jewelry on the back of an old frying pan and selling it on the streets of San Francisco. Later, Laurel Burch started to paint horses, tropical birds, and fantastic felines, all of which students and people everywhere have come to admire most. Students were also quite inspired by this artist when they learned she suffered from a rare bone disease that often left her hospitalized for months at a time. She never abandoned her art and worked through her pain. She wanted the world to feel the joy, and happiness her paintings conveyed. 

See the beauty of her legacy below in my students' work...

Perceiving/Knowing (2PE) The student demonstrates skill in identifying relationships between and among selected elements and principles of art and design (ie., color, line, texture, space)

Perceiving/ Knowing (4PE): The student recognizes Laurel Burch as an artist who contributed to the cultural heritage of the people of the United States.

Producing/Performing (5PR): The student shows an increasing attention to the nuances of elements/ principles of design when creating personal works of art (ie., symmetry, repetition, and pattern)

Craftsmanship: The student successfully painted and applied oil pastel patterns, then outlined, cut and pasted neatly and completely with utmost attention to details.

7th Grade Inspired by Keith Haring

7^th Grade Artists Inspired by

KeithHaring

Keith Haring is an artist who is famous for using simplified, line based artwork. Haring created work that often addressed social causes and worked for years painting his bold, strikingly identifiable images where all could see. A social cause is a practice or event that can potentially be changed. Symbolism is the practice of using one image to represent or symbolize an idea. Keith had many symbols in his art from the “radiating baby” to dolphins, wolf dogs, and space ships, but each had their own meaning to him and would often show up in many of his different art works and murals all over the world. See student work below, very powerful stuff! My students continue to impress me!

Ohio Academic Content Standards for ART:

PERCEIVING/KNOWING (3PE):  Identify sources of visual culture in society and the media & discuss how messages they convey affect personal choices.

PRODUCING/PERFORMING (6PE): Connect various art forms to their social, cultural or political purposes and include regional examples.

RESPONDING/ REFLECTING (1 RE): Speculate about an artist’s intentions and message in a work using relevant references to the work.