After looking at several pictures of Georgia O’Keefe’s artwork students had a directed drawing lesson to create their own poppies in pencil. They then used china markers to outline these poppies.  Painting came next.  When the pieces were dry the next day they were re-outlined, cut out, and glued onto green construction paper.

Amongst their individual poppies are the Indigenous poppies created by Robin Roberts, a Tsimshian/Haida artist, and coloured by the students.

As we have been discussing since the beginning of the school year, each poppy is unique unto itself just as each artist is unique unto themselves.  Here they are individually:

With their knowledge of colour theory, students then heard the story about Bernard, the Butterfly and his interactions with Mother Nature.  They then created their own butterflies using the three Primary colours and working to make their butterflies symmetrical.

Students experimented with the three Primary colours – yellow, blue, and red – and created the three Secondary colours – orange, green, and purple.

We have begun our learning journey on the elements of art.  We started with a discussion on what an element is – the parts that make up a whole thing – by discussing elements of music and literature, and then art.  Students learned that there six elements of art: colour, shape, line, form, texture, and value.

We used leaves to demonstrate our knowledge of these elements.  We did some outlining and some rubbing techniques.  The results are quite stunning.

 

Our Art lesson last week focussed on the idea of individuality.  We began by looking at a variety of famous artist’s paintings (Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, and more) each with their own particular style, where the only thing in common was that each art piece had at least one tree. Unfortunately the glare is distorting a few of the images.

Students then created their own pieces of art.  They were able to use any of their  colouring media (felt markers, pencil crayons, or wax crayons) for their art piece.

These are displayed on the bulletin board in the hallway outside of our classroom.