SCULPTURE INTRODUCTION

Hi there! We're Our Art creations are back! 

This year, our school project is about Arts and Emotions, so in our Art lessons we'll try to work on different Arts and what they make us feel. 

We've decided October will be dedicated to the emotion of  FEAR, so we've worked on different Art representations of this feeling.

Sixth graders worked on this feeling through the Art of Sculpture. We chose the Swiss artist Giacometti and his tall and thin creations as an introduction to Sculpture and as a representation of fear. 

To learn about the artist, we used this slideshow:

Giacometti from Neus Marí Tur

We worked with foil paper to make our creatures.

 

 

 We gave each sculpture a personality and are now making presentation for the rest of the class to choose the best character. These are our final creations.

A DELICIOUS FAMILY DAY!

Hello everyone! Last Friday 15th May it was Family Day. For this reason, as every year, we prepared a little gift for our families in our Art lessons. 

Since this school year project is  "Around the world on top of a plate", we decided to make something related to food. 

 Third graders made beautiful cookie tins reusing chips tins. First, we covered the tins with white paper and then we painted them.

After that, we cut out letters with the word COOKIES and some other shapes to decorate the tins.  To make them look shinier, we covered them with some decoupage glue.

And this was the result!

Then we made some cookies to put in the tins.

Yummy!

4th and 5th graders made a bowl and filled it with "classroom-made" chocolates.

To make the bowl, we used the paper maché technique.

Once it was hard and dry, we popped the balloon out and covered the outside with patterned paper and painted the inside.

This was the result.

We also made some chocolates to put in the bowl We used a super simple with just 3 ingredients: CHOCOLATE, CORN FLAKES AND BUTTER.

 

Once the chocolates were made, we put them in the fridge for about 15 minutes, wrote a card for our family and prepared everything to wrap ouir gift.

 It took us a while, but we were all very proud of our creations, and the COOKIES and CHOCOLATES were delicious!!

AZTEC SUNS - 5th GRADE CALENDARS

In 5th grade, as a theme for our 2015 calendar, we decided to draw Aztec Suns. In the classroom, as part of our 2014-2015 school project ("Around the world on top of a plate"), they are studying Mexico and its ancient history and culture.

For our Art work, we worked on basic shapes: oval, lines, diamonds..., symmetry and colour contrast, combining cool and warm colours in our creations. We drew the suns and their features and then divided the background into 2 or 4 parts that we decorated with patterns. We coloured it with Manley and pastel crayons and traced it both with crayons and markers.

Here's the result if you'd like to see:

AROUND THE WORLD ON TOP OF A PLATE/CUP/MUG-4th GRADE CALENDAR

4th graders chose the exact title of our 2014-2015 school project "Around the world on top of a plate" as a theme for their 2015 calendar. They also connected it to their classroom theme, where they are cooks.

We painted a sky with watercolours (they chose if they wanted a classic blue sky or a sunset sky) after having drawn a few white lines with crayons that will pop out of the watercoloured background. Having done this, they drew a hot air balloon which theu decorated with different lines and patterns and instead of making a basket, they drew a plate, a mug or a cup to put themselves in (perfect occasion to review some kitchen-related vocabulary). Meanwhile, we took pictures of them as if they were travelling in their painting hot air balloon (very fun moment, by the way!). When everything was ready (3 lessons), we cut the hot air balloon and pasted it on the background paper and then pasted out photo in the hot air balloon. To finish, we made some 2-D clouds to decorate our skies.

Here you are some examples if you'd like to see. 

12 FRUITS FOR 12 MONTHS - 3rd GRADE 2015 CALENDARS

Last December, in our Art lessons, we made our 2015 calendars based on our school project "Around the world on top of a plate".

In 3rd grade, we chose 12 fruits for 12 months. We learned some new names of fruits and analyzed their characteristics (colour, shape, texture...) to be able to draw them and assigned one fruit to each month. After the planning, we made a grid using a square shaped stencil and painted it with watercolours. On a different sheet of paper we drew the fruits, coloured them with crayons and traced them with a black crayon. After this, we pasted them onto the grid and our painting was ready!

Here you are some examples of our healthy and yummy calendars if you'd like to see!