KANDINSKY - Art History's first pure abstract artist

Bustling-Aquarelle by Wassily Kandinsky

My fifth graders on the orange and blue team this week will be working in the style of art's first true abstract artist, Wassily Kandinsky.  We'll be taking a look at Kandinsky's pure abstract forms and doing our best to create our own pure abstract works.  It's actually more challenging than most fifth graders would think, but I'm betting the end results will look marvelous!  I SHOULD have some final examples ready to show off here on the blog later this week!

Drying Time!

6th Grade Ceramic Vessels

The students in Mrs. Cotner's homeroom and Mrs. Orr's homeroom completed their ceramic coil vessels on Tuesday this week.  The projects are now in the process of drying and can hopefully be fired in the kiln next Thursday.  The kids will glaze them during their last week of art, which is rapidly approaching already!!!  How did that happen?!?

Onomatopoeia!!!

5th Grade Onomatopoeia Projects!!!
Top Row: Joena Rauck, Emma Ingle and Caitlin Johnson
Middle Row: Ashton Fulkerson, Andrew Bentz and Alissa Wilms
Third Row: Paige Gootee, Maddy Moody and Alyssa Beeching

As promised, here's a glimpse at some of the fifth grade "Onomatopoeia" Projects!!!  I have to send them to Art to Remember in October...but I think I'll hang some up down in the lunchroom for a bit before I do.

BANG! POW! ZAP! KABOOM!

Comic Book Onomatopoeia!

Fifth graders are starting the year trying to visually create noise!  We often "see" sound in the form of words, called onomatopoeia, in comic books and story books.  So the challenge of creating an artwork of where we can 'see sound' and 'hear art' is something new and exciting for many of them!  We are finishing the projects this week, so be sure to come back later in the week to see some great final pieces of onomatopoeia from the fifth grade blue and orange teams!!!

TEXT ME! Pt. 2

Student work created by:
Top Row: Andorra Blattner, Madison Wildermuth, Megan Griggs
Middle Row: Mollie Spillman, Michael Cogossi, Eliza Greer
Bottom Row: Carolyn Frost, Caroline Imbrogno, AJ Loftus

More awesome student examples of the "TEXT ME!" project!!!

TEXT ME!

Artwork created by Megan Perry, Larissa Smith and Stella Moser

Well...not quite as many kids finished today as I had hoped.  I'm thinking one more day of art to work on them is in order.  In any event, I wanted to pass along a few student examples!  REALLY digging this project!!!  Maybe I'll just tweak it a tad for the second round of sixth graders starting September 29th.  

TEXT ME! or WHO ARE YOU?!?

Sixth graders are finishing up their second project of their six weeks with a project I am calling "TEXT ME".  Not meaning 'send me a text', rather a 'text version of me'...it made sense in my head.  Using a variety of texts, the kids are filling in their silhouette with the 'stuff' that makes them who they are.  It's been a fun project, and am really looking forward to finishing them tomorrow.  Then...it's time for clay!!!

I'll have some student examples up later in the week!