From the Artroom
Happy Autumn!
The Art room has been busy, and the MES students seem happy and enthusiastic about being “down under”. Each class comes to the art room once a week to learn about various art materials, art history, art vocabulary and how to relate to and express ourselves through different art media .
The Kindergartners are becoming familiar with the art room, art materials and how to use them. They have been creating artwork that has been emphasizing tracing, cutting and gluing, such as collage apple trees and texture boards.
Primary has been building on skills they learned last year. They started off the year with their remarkable fore/background family self-portraits (check them out in the library and on the school’s web site), collage chrysalises and observational leaf drawings.
3rd/4th graders dove right into their recycled bottlecap sculptures, creating folk art snakes. They loved creating them and playing with them afterwards. They are now finishing up their 2D symmetrical collages, which have become “plates” for our frottage rubbings.
The 5/6th graders just recently completed their collaborative van Gogh pieces. We learned about this wonderful and tormented artist and studied 5 of his paintings, using oil pastels to recreate them together. A few are on display at the town office, in the MES office and on our web site. That class will now be moving on to learning about 1 & 2 point perspectives.
The JH started off the year making mini sculptures out of toothpicks. Each student was given ~100 toothpicks, creating “units” which were then assembled together to create a 3D piece. Elegant little works of art. They are now fine tuning their water color skills, making geometric watercolor paintings. We will all continue to explore the visual arts through painting, drawing, printmaking, collage and ceramics this year. Each class will touch on some art history and will continually be increasing our art vocabulary. I look forward to what’s ahead!
With a handshake (as Vincent van Gogh would close a letter to his brother, Theo),
Lauren von Krusenstiern
Posted: October 10th, 2008 under Art.