October 2019

We are very busy in the art room!  Kindergartners and Ms. Natoli's class have been practicing lots of things.  We have drawn shapes and lines.  I hope the students came home and taught you about what they learned.  We are now cutting shapes by making small cuts and doing our best to stay on the line.  The students will use cut shapes to create a view of "Rainbow Row" in Charleston, SC.  This area has many colorful houses and perfect for us to practice our shape cutting and line & shape drawing.  First grade is finishing up a texture landscape with the Painted Desert of Arizona as its theme.  The students learned about making textures by feeling them with our fingers, making crayon rubbings, and then drawing them.  After viewing pictures of the Painted Desert, we created mountains with oil pastels and sandpaper.  We then added sand and cacti in the foreground.  Second graders and Ms. W​olf's class are learning about gesture drawing and organic shapes.  First we drew some poses of people doing different actions like the American artist Keith Haring.  Gesture drawing only shows the position the person is moving in.  We are combining the people we are making with organic shapes.  Third grade is doing some observational drawing of the prairie plants in our Hilltop garden.  We then will be creating some gel monoprints of the plants, learning about positive and negative space.