Wild Things in the art room...
3rd graders used their AMAZING imaginations to create the wackiest, creepiest, most unique creatures I've ever seen. We talked about artist Maurice Sendak and his book Where the Wild Things Are. It was a fun class time with a great bunch of kids.
3rd grade celebrates Cinco de Mayo with Mexican Folk Art -
Mrs. Vigil's class learned the FOLK ART is often whimsical and made from craftsmen with everyday found materials. We noticed a common theme of birds, flowers and repeated patterns in the examples with looked at. The kids painted these fun pieces on brown grocery bags and painted them in the brightest colors we could find.
Earth Day Terrariums.
Mrs. Vigil's class made these great crayon resist watercolor terrariums. They drew in crayon or oil pastel and much of it didn't show up until they painted watercolor over it.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
In March, the 3rd graders celebrated Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) by drawing these fun Cat in the Hats!
Metal Relief Crosses
Audubon Birds...
3rd graders learned about naturalist and painter John James Audobon who studied and illustrated thousands of birds in America and after whom the Audubon Society was named.
Snowmen at Night...
Mrs. Vigil's class practiced their shading of a round object with these paint and paper collage snowmen at night.
In November, Mrs. Vigil's class studied artist Henri Matisse and his painting "the Goldfish". We created our own version with tempera paints, watercolor, colored pencil patterns and cut paper collage goldfish. As you can see, their results were amazing! — Nov 2012
After studying abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky, 3rd graders created their own version of his famous color study "Squares with Concentric Circles" with oil pastels and watercolor.
Wacky Halloween Pumpkin faces!
3rd graders used red and yellow only to paint their silly pumpkins the perfect shade or orange. The faces went on with paper collage.
Mrs. Vigil's class started out the art year with these cool graphic illustrations of their names. We discussed the element of art - LINE and kids filled in between brightly colored letters with various patterns (of LINE) that made ranging values of black —darker or lighter depending on how many lines were used.