Third Grade: Value Study

Students created nonobjective art and shaded in each shape changing the value from light to dark.

Fourth Grade: Tessellations

Students were inspired by MC Escher. Tessellations can fit together in repetitive patterns like simple jigsaw puzzles. These fill a surface, usually a 2D plane, without gaps or overlaps. Brick walls, tiled floors and walls in kitchens and bathrooms, and sidewalks are all tesselations.

Kindergarten: Monet's Birch Trees

Students created a horizone line and painted a sunset with water colors.  Next they created birch trees inspired by Claude Monet.

1st Grade: Reflections and Landscapes

Students created a city landscaped with a reflection in the water.  Students were inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's many reflective pieces.

Second Grade: NonObjective Art

Non Objective Art is art that does not use recognizable objects such as landscapes or people.  This type of art just uses lines, shapes, colors, values and textures.  Students created their nonobjective works of art by creating a line design and painting their lines with warm and cool colors.  Then they cut apart their painting and created a new composition.

First Grade: Colorful Landscapes

Students used the warm colors for the sky and then used the cool colors for the ocean or the mountians.

Kindergarten: Expressive Self Portraits

Students used expressive or nonrealistic colors to color thier self portrait.  Some times artists use these expressive colors to be beautiful or colorful.