Note: You will spend three to four class periods on each project. Art is once a week for forty-two minutes in school, all year. Additional learning materials will be cross-posted in Google Classroom.
Third Grade: Op Art Towers; Monsters in a Jar; Black, White, & Brown (monochrome drawing) (& Google Drawing if time is available)
Fourth Grade: Masterpiece Mash-Up; Basquiat; Where to Put the Cow (& Google Drawing optional/if time is available)
Fifth Grade: Value Study Choice, Design a Giant…; Watercolor Pencil Choice (& Google Drawing if time available)
Project One 3rd Grade: OP Art Towers (Visual Steps & video about OP artist Bridget Riley below)
Project One 4th Grade: Masterpiece MashUp (instructions in Google Classroom, choose 2 to combine)
Project One 5th Grade: Value Study Choice (Drawing abstract geometric shapes and shading with colored pencil=top picture, second choice is doing as a tessellation=second block, a video)
“The world always seems brighter, when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.”
Neil Gaiman
Project Two 3rd Grade: Monsters In a Jar (instructions in Google Classroom, art on Artsonia)
Project Two 4th Grade: Basquiat (Drawing a Self-Portrait from Observation and using acrylic paint)
Project Two 5th Grade: Design a Giant Playing Card
“As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance”
Calvin from Calvin & Hobbs
Project Three 3rd Grade: Black, White, & Brown
Project Three 4th Grade: Where to Put the Cow
Instructions: Go to your Art Google Classroom and view the slides on the 8 Basic Compositions Rules before you start your “Where to Put the Cow” art project. More design reference is at these videos, below.
Project Three 5th Grade: Watercolor Pencil (View the Genially in Google Classroom 1st)
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson