Art Club Announcement

Please choose which club you would like to join and then return this form to Mr. Bruns with $5 cash or check and you will be enrolled in your selected club. Remember club preference is a first come first serve basis so once a club is full there will be no more seats. There are 32 seats total for each club so please act quickly. Deadline is September 30, 2013. I am very much looking forward to Art Club!

Art Docent - September 17, 2013

Today was Art Docent day! This program takes place once per six weeks and offers a unique gift to our students by providing them with highly trained and intelligent Art Docent Volunteers that discuss key learning points in art education such as composition, personal history about the artist's life, world history, and how to observe the painting and the world around them.

Today our Docents discussed the life and works of Thomas Cole and Winslow Homer, two American artists, while engaging them in an enriching conversation!

Here are a few links to the artists and terminology that were discussed in today's Docent lesson.

Thomas Cole

Winslow Homer

Pentimenti

6th Grade - Andy Warhol Inspired Pop Art Prints

Students kicked off the semester by reviewing color groups and learning about our featured artist for the lesson, Andy Warhol. We discussed the Pop Art movement in the 1960's and students were introduced to Warhols work in the advertising and art world. Using the primary, secondary, warm, cool, and complementary color groups students made prints of various animals. They began by sketching their animals in their sketchbooks using contour lines. They then redrew their drawings on foam sheets and used washable markers to make mono-prints, prints that can only be made one time, onto absorbent watercolor paper. They are such fast learners and did an incredible job on their first art project of the year!

5th Grade - Pattern Study

Students began the year by learning the elements and principles of art and design. For this particular project the students started by doing a pattern study in their sketchbooks. They then applied them to their project and added a few new patterns along the way. They did a great job coming up with new patterns for this lesson!