Visual Art Weekly Update for
for Monday, Wednesday & Friday May 22nd, 24th, & 26th
Preschool: Students engaged in the artmaking process. They explored the combination of symbols, images, and movement while creating a flying parachute.
Kindergarten: Each student experienced the difference between 2D and 3D. They developed awareness of the principles and elements of art. While creating an abstract paper sculpture.
ELEMENTS OF ART: Line, Shape, Form, Space, Color
PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN: Pattern, Emphasis, Variety, Proportion
First: Students created a representational landscape utilizing watercolor paints. They learned varied techniques of watercolor painting.
Second: Students created a representational landscape utilizing watercolor paints. They learned varied techniques of watercolor painting.
Third:. Students created a Zentangle drawing using patterns. They demonstrated their knowledge of the elements and principles of design through the creation of tangles and/or patterns.
Fourth: Each student observed shapes and lines that created a composition of an off-centered flower. They learned about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe.
About Georgia O’Keeffe:
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986)
American abstract painter born in Wisconsin. She attended the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Student’s League in New York, and Columbia Teacher’s College in New York. She was an art teacher before she became a full time artist. She was a leader in the development of the American Modernism Movement. O’Keeffe painted still lifes, massive flowers, the New York at Night series, southwestern landscapes and stark bones found in the desert. In 1939, she was selected as one of the twelve most outstanding women of the past fifty years by the New York World’s Fair Committee. Her painting, Sunset-Long Island, was chosen to represent New York in an exhibition of the art of the United States at the World’s Fair. In 1985, O’Keeffe was granted the Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan.
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Fifth: Students created a Zentangle drawing using patterns. They demonstrated their knowledge of the elements and principles of design through the creation of tangles and/or patterns
Sixth: Students created a Zentangle drawing using patterns. They demonstrated their knowledge of the elements and principles of design through the creation of tangles and/or patterns
Seventh: Students created a Zentangle drawing using patterns. They demonstrated their knowledge of the elements and principles of design through the creation of tangles and/or patterns
Eight:Students created a Zentangle drawing using patterns. They demonstrated their knowledge of the elements and principles of design through the creation of tangles and/or patterns
