This Week in Visual Arts
Visual Art Lessons for Monday, Wednesday, & Friday September 19th, 21st, 23rd.
Preschool: They learned about art appreciation from a video on Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Afterwards, students designed their our sunflower.
Kindergarten: Students learned about the artist Vincent Van Gogh’s. They created a scene out of sunflowers.
First and Second: They created a scene with hot air balloons. They listened to the song “Lift your Name up High to the LORD”.
Third: Created an outdoor scene depicting “Falling Leaves”. We discussed the difference between Organic Shapes Vs Geometric Shapes (Part of God’s Creations).
Fourth : The class designed a Native American Tepee. They learned about the different symbols and pictographs.
Fifth: Students created a Fall 3-D Leave Painting.
They demonstrated skill, craftsmanship and reasoning abilities in solving visual art problems using specific tools.
Sixth and Seventh:Graphic Design.
Students created a digital cover for our community for Veterans Day. The Card will go home to St Ambrose Parishioners. Students will utilize their Chromebooks.
Eighth: Created a Rolled Paper Design .
The is called Relief. It is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term relief is from the Latin verb relevo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane.







