Huitchol Yarn Art

Today we finished our yarn art projects.

These will be kept at Sandburg until our last class on the 19th.
There is no class next Monday, but Janna and I look forward to seeing everyone on the 27th.

Jim Dine Inspired Hearts

3rd Graders learned about the artist Jim Dine and created their own hearts, experimenting with color, line, texture, and balance.   Each student was given red, blue, yellow, and white.  With these colors, they created their own unique color scheme.

Analogous Hearts

Mrs. Goodleaf's class learned all about analogous colors (colors that are next to each other on the color wheel) and viewed several examples of the artist, Jim Dine's, famous heart paintings.

They then created their own analogous heart paintings by mixing colors.

Huichol Yarn Art

We had a wonderful first class today.

We learned about Mexican Yarn Art.

 Huitchol Indians in Mexico created beautiful yarn paintings.  They melted wax in the sun on wood boards and pressed the yarn into the soft wax.  This process takes patience!
The yarn paintings are created for two purposes:  for religious purposes and to sell.
The deer is an important symbol and frequently seen in yarn art.  Much of the subject matter for the yarn paintings is based on natural subjects.

We started our own yarn art projects and will finish them next week.
Everyone is doing a terrific job.  I will post pictures of our finished pieces next week.

 

2nd Grade Analogous Hearts

Today, Mrs. Guest and Ms. Via's class learned about the artist Jim Dine, who is well known for his paintings of hearts.  (Mrs. Goodleaf's class will have their art class on Tuesday.)

They then learned about creating analogous color schemes. 
 
Analogous color schemes use colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.  They usually match well and create serene and comfortable designs.

Here are some of the hearts they painted using an analogous color scheme of their choosing.

Salvador Dali Mustaches

Today we learned about the artist, Salvador Dali.   He was one of the most famous and unusual artists of the twentieth century.    His best known paintings are called surrealistic.

The Persistence of Memory

He is also famous for his mustache!

After learning about Dali, we learned how to draw a face with expression.  Then each 3rd grader gave their face a fancy Dali-esque mustache!

Continuous Line Drawings

Students learned about a drawing exercise that artists use to improve their ability look for lines and shapes called, Continuous Line Drawing.

Pablo Picasso creating a continuous line drawing.

For this exercise, students put their pen down on their paper and do not lift it from the paper until their drawing is done.  Some students even tried the blind continuous line drawing exercise, where you don't look at your paper the entire time you are drawing.

Students drew faces, their hands, water bottles, scissors, and many other things without lifting their pens.  Tricky.....but they did an amazing job.    Each student chose two of their favorite drawings to display.   Here they are: