1st, 3rd and 4th Grade Artist Update

This week I wanted to share with you what our 1st, 3rd and 4th grade artists were up to learning in the art room. First graders have been exploring the art of the African American artist Faith Ringgold. You may have heard of Faith Ringgold before because she is not only an artist, she is also an author of children's books which she illustrates through her artwork. She is most famous for her story quilts like the one we are talking about together called Tar Beach.
Students have been exploring their own favorite memories to create memory quilts. The past few weeks students have been illustrating a favorite memory. This week we started exploring paper weaving to make our quilts for our memory illustrations to adhere to. Ask your first grader what they know about weaving and see if they can tell you why weaving is important. Here are some students working on their paper looms today.

 

 

 

Third graders are creating radial pattern designs in preparation for painting and mixing colors to create unique color wheels. Ask your third grader if they can identify something that is radial in your home and tell you why it is radial. Take a look at some of the awesome radial patterns they have designed!

 

 

 

 

Fourth grade is all about the MOVEMENT. We have been learning about the contemporary artist Colleen Wilcox and her paintings using line and pattern to create movement. Students are working with line and pattern also to create movement in either a flower or abstract composition. Today, students learned about analogous color schemes and used water color techniques to apply them to their movement compositions.

 

I know what you may be thinking... contemporary.... composition... abstract... analogous color schemes... these are pretty art smart words for our fourth graders! See if they can teach you what these words mean! I try to get them to impress you all with their art smartness by using these fancy art words to describe things they see in everyday life. If you catch your child using these art smart words, let me know! It always makes me smile :)

 

Take a look at these way cool movement compositions!