Wednesday, October 17, 2012

October Art News


Art News


What’s happening in the Mountain View Art Studio?

Throughout the year kindergarten will study the elements of art; line, shape, color, texture, form, as well as balance, pattern and rhythm. Each is studied through projects and experiences that expose them to many types of media and processes.
Kindergarteners are now working on learning about line. We practice making lines, we read about lines, and we study how other artists have used line.  Ask your children about the types of lines they see in their world.

In 1st grade, students are working in a color mixing paint project. Students become scientists and inventors as they develop new colors and names for those colors.  We will build a color wheel of our own to further our understanding of how color works.  Mood and feeling comes into play with as we study color and how it relates to music.  To celebrate fall, our next project will be the annual, popular making of leaf bowls from clay.

As October approaches, students in grades 2-5 are just now starting to see centers open in their studio.  We will start slowly with drawing, painting, and collage.   Students are exposed to a new concept, media, or technique everyday and choose how they incorporate that new information in their work. We are looking closely this year at the artist’s process.  In mid-October we will begin a unit that covers Mexican tradition and arts including Dias de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) to coincide with students’ favorite holiday: Halloween!



School—720-972-8429
Email Jennifer.schmuldt@adams12.org

No comments:

Post a Comment