October 15 Art

K Art - Unit: 3 lessons: 5 and 6 We looked at royal families portraits and portraits of families doing common every day things. They learned that long ago we didn't have cameras and families had to hire artists to paint their portraits. Many family portraits from a long time ago show wealthy families, because they had a lot of money to pay artists. They used pastels for the first time today to make a family portrait. So part of the lesson was exploring with a new medium. We had fun talking about our own families and of course the new addition too Quinn's family.


2nd grade Art - Unit: 3 lessons: 3 and 4 Patterns in a rain forest is the subject of these two lessons that we started last week and will finish next week. They are working on a large jungle scene and I'm teaching them how to make depth with multiple horizion lines, size of objects and color. They have been very interested in this and I can't wait to see what they do with it in later projects. We did alot with patterns last year. I found out they are good at finding alernating patterns but needed review on repeating patterns. They have learned about over- lapping and how that helps to create depth too. We have looked for many examples of overlapping in art work. We have look for tints and shades particularly greens in the jungle scenes.

Lesson: 5 Unit assessment - Read about art and artists: James Audubon, van Gough,
Brancusi, and O'Keefe from How Artists see animals book. (subject birds).

They all did well in the assessment.