In July I went to New York and visited MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art). Here are some pictures of the artwork I saw there. Do you recognize any of these paintings?
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
What I did this summer:
In July I went to New York and visited MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art). Here are some pictures of the artwork I saw there. Do you recognize any of these paintings?
Monday, August 23, 2010
Welcome Back!
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone back at school this week! I have been changing some things around the art room, so we'll see if you can figure out what's new and different.
See you in art!
See you in art!
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
The school year is flying by!!!
Sorry it's been so long since my last post. The art room has been busy lately!
Here’s a look at what we’ve been working on:
5TH GRADE
The students have been working hard and have created some really amazing artwork. Check out the latest masterpieces on Artsonia. Remember that 15% of all sales from Artsonia comes back to Art at Irving.
Here’s a look at what we’ve been working on:
5TH GRADE
The 5th Graders looked at visual culture images of iPod advertisements as inspiration for their latest paintings. Using overhead projectors and cutouts from magazines, each student traced a silhouette of a person in motion. The students added lines around their person to emphasize the action.
In class we discussed complimentary colors, opposite colors on the color wheel. The students chose a pair of complimentary colors for their painting, one for the person and one for the background. We also talked about value and how to create lighter or darker values by adding white or black to a color. When a color is mixed with black, it becomes a shade. When a color is mixed with white, it becomes a tint. By mixing tints and shades of their background color, each student created 4 or more values in their silhouette paintings.
In class we discussed complimentary colors, opposite colors on the color wheel. The students chose a pair of complimentary colors for their painting, one for the person and one for the background. We also talked about value and how to create lighter or darker values by adding white or black to a color. When a color is mixed with black, it becomes a shade. When a color is mixed with white, it becomes a tint. By mixing tints and shades of their background color, each student created 4 or more values in their silhouette paintings.
3RD GRADE
The 3rd graders looked at many examples of self portraits by famous artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close and Jean Michele Basquiat. We discussed the different styles the artists used and the basic proportions of the face. Then the students were ready to start their own self portraits! They drew themselves from memory, without looking in a mirror. Once the initial drawings were done, the students helped each other find colored pencils that matched their hair and skin color.
Everyone got a special treat before winter break when Robin, a local artist, came to talk to each of the classes. She showed the students some of her own portrait work and gave them tips for drawing people which they were able to use for their self portraits.
See if you can name the students from their portraits below: 
Thursday, November 5, 2009
If I could fly...
Faith Ringgold is a contemporary artist who combines quilting and painting to create her artwork. She is more well known among Irving students as the author and illustrator of the book "Tar Beach."
The first graders looked at images of Faith Ringgold's quilts and read "Tar Beach," a story about a girl who uses her imagination to pretend she can fly. Using Ringgold's artwork and story as inspiration, the students each created their own "quilts" that each tell a story.
The students used pieces of cut paper to make a patterned quilt boarder around the edge of their paper. In the center of the paper they drew a picture describing where they would fly to if they could go anywhere in the world.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Happy Halloween!
Ms. Zaragoza (Spanish), Ms. Linne (art), Mrs. Stachyra (library), Mrs. Hiolski (music), Mrs. Tarabus (music), and where is Mr. Hancock (P.E.)? He missed the picture.
It was a rainy day for Irving's Halloween celebration on Friday, but we still had fun parading around the school. The Specials Teachers were dressed in a costume that was a little tricky to figure out. Did you guess what we were?
Sound it out, we were "Spe-shells"!
It was a rainy day for Irving's Halloween celebration on Friday, but we still had fun parading around the school. The Specials Teachers were dressed in a costume that was a little tricky to figure out. Did you guess what we were?
Sound it out, we were "Spe-shells"!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Fall is here!
It is easy to see by the changing of the leaves that fall is here! During the past few weeks the second graders have been working on a fall tree collage. In class we discussed the techniques that artists use to make objects in an artwork appear closer or farther away. When objects in a painting or drawing are bigger and closer to the bottom of the paper, they appear closer. When objects are closer to the horizon line and smaller, they appear farther away. They learned that objects in a work of art that look close are a part of the foreground and the objects that look far away are a part of the background.
The students drew a horizon line on blue paper then cut a tree out of brown paper and glued it onto the blue paper. The tree is a part of the foreground because the tree is big and close to the bottom of the paper. Each student then drew picture in the background making the objects smaller and closer to the horizon line so that they look farther away. The last step of the lesson was to cut leaves out of red, orange, and yellow paper and glue some on the branches of the tree and some on the ground as if they had fallen from the tree.
The finished drawings look great!
They can be viewed on Artsonia:
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