Welcome to the PS46 Art Studio website. We are all creative artists at PS 46. This school year all of the art studio classes have been busy learning new art concepts through interpreting art and creating art projects. The following is a short summary for each grade of what we've been doing:
Kindergarten- We started the year learning about Van Gogh's Starry Night and created a "Family Portrait at my House" drawing. We continued our family theme and learned about overlapping shapes and created a collage titled "Fall Family Collage". Then I introduced a three-dimensional shape (a sphere) and we drew a "Pumpkin Drawing" with different size pumpkins. I integrated Social Studies into the curricullum when we learned about the past and read William's Steig's "When Everybody Wore a Hat". We learned about women's and men's hat fashions from 1915 and drew a mixed media drawing using crayon and marker with blending.
In our next project we continued our shape theme and learned how to create a pattern design of spirals after we listened to "A House for Hermit the Crab". Currently we are continuing our shape theme (double arches) and studying the architecture of the Brooklyn Bridge. We are continuing to learn about horizontal, vertical and diagnol lines as we draw the web like cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
We completed our Winter Family Collage and painted our snowy backgrounds with blue watercolor to create a crayon resist.
Our imaginations soared when we listened to a read-a-loud of Why is Blue Dog Blue? and drew our favorite dog any color we wanted to in any room of our house or outside in the park.
We will be listening to the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and begin our own wild things drawing!
First Grade- We started the year analyzing Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night". We talked about Van Gogh's brush strokes, use of color,shape and movement in his sky. We then drew our family with a sky like "Starry Night" using crayons,markers and blending. In our next project we continued our Van Gogh theme and listened to the book "Camille and the Sunflowers". We then illustrated a scene we recalled from the story.
In our next project we learned about Cubism when we listened to the book "Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail". We drew from observation when we drew from the model when one of our students poised as the girl with the ponytail. We broke up the space into overlapping shapes as we drew in the Cubist style using contrasting colors.
We are already learned about Paul Cezanne and how he created beautiful landscapes using three-dimensional shapes like the cube, cone and cylinder. We created our own landscape drawing after we listen to the book "Cezanne and the Apple Boy".
We finished drawing an illustration from William Steig's book "Rotten Island". The students will used their imaginations to create their own monster drawing of a scene of a paradise island.
Everyone had fun learning about the secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and watching her eyes follow them as they walked from left to center and then right of the painting on the smart board. We listened to a read-a-loud of Leonardo and the Flying Machine and designed our own flying machine.
Second Grade- Our first project started with a close look at photographs of Old New York. We learned about the transportation, fashion, and architecture from 1890-1930. Our artists drew pen and ink drawings with sepia pencil and learned hatching and crosshatching techniques. We continued our Old New York theme and analyzed the painting "The Green Car" by William Glackens. This inspired us to create another Old New York drawing in colored marker.
We continued our New York City theme by looking at Art Deco architecture from the 1930's. We compared the Chrysler building to the Empire State Building. Then we learned about the math concept of symmetry to draw the Empire State Building. Everyone watched an Empire State building light show on the smart board which inspired us to create colorful drawings of it.!
Currently we are leaving our urban theme of the city and we are going rural to begin our farm drawings.
Next we will be creating our own textured paper using the drawing technique of hatching and crosshatching. This paper will be used with other types of paper to create a dream collage.
We are currently finishing our dream collages. Class 2-213 was the first class to start their Children at Play drawing. They were inspired by Jean Chardin's (1699-1779) Soap Bubbles, 1734
Fourth Grade- We started out the year looking at reproductions of American Impressionist paintings. We reviewed the elements of art as we interpreted these paintings. Then we chose our favorite painting and created a pen and ink drawing using hatching and crosshatching. We also created another version in colored marker after we examined the watercolors of John Singer Sargent.
Our next drawing unit is about portraits and self-portraits. We began our unit by analyzing Copley's
famous portrait of Paul Revere. We looked at visual clues in the painting that told us about who and what Paul Revere was really about. Afterwards I introduced self-portrait proportions using Math and symmetry. We are all using mirrors to draw our self-portraits from observation.
I recently had the privilege of seeing "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665) by Vermeer at the Frick Museum. I shared this with class 4-301 along with the raved about Carl Fabritius's exquisite "Goldfinch" (1654). This exhibit titled "Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis" is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It is closing Jan. 19, 2013 and children need to be ten years old for admission. The lines are very long (1-3 hours) but you can avoid the lines if you become a member on the spot.
I hope some of you were able to see Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"- it may have been a once in a lifetime opportunity!
We are continuing our portrait theme now and creating more self portraits; this time we are wearing a Venetian Mask! We finally finished it and enjoyed using oil pastel techniques.
Our current project is creating our own cake/dessert painting after interpreting the Pop Art paintings of Wayne Thiebaud.
Fifth Grade- Our fifth graders started out using Cubism to examine the elements and principles of design. We looked at Picasso's painting "Man with a Pipe" and created our own version of this painting using our own object. We also added a self-selected foreign word, an original color scheme. textures and patterns to our artwork.
We extended our Cubism unit by looking at the Orphist artwork of Sonia Delaunay. We examined her textiles, fashion and paintings and found her to be quite ahead of her time. Her Orphist masterpiece "Electric Prisms" is the main focus of our discussions about art. We are working now designing our own version of this painting as a mixed-media painting. We are using a student driven art rubric to help us use the elements and principles of design as we create our artwork.
This past week most of us painted our Orphist design using metallic and fluorescent tempera paint. Boy did we have fun!
Read about "Girl with a Pearl Earring" under fourth grade notes (above).
We are now creating Tropical Rain Forest collages using colored paper and painted paper. Some of these collages will be exhibited at MS 74 along with our non-fiction writing on the rain forest. This project is a collaborative effort with the fifth grade classroom teachers.
We are being inspired by the artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) as we interpret his painting Sleeping Gypsy. We are also examining the elements and principles of design through his jungle painting Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910.
- Art teacher (Mrs. Zipper)
Kindergarten- We started the year learning about Van Gogh's Starry Night and created a "Family Portrait at my House" drawing. We continued our family theme and learned about overlapping shapes and created a collage titled "Fall Family Collage". Then I introduced a three-dimensional shape (a sphere) and we drew a "Pumpkin Drawing" with different size pumpkins. I integrated Social Studies into the curricullum when we learned about the past and read William's Steig's "When Everybody Wore a Hat". We learned about women's and men's hat fashions from 1915 and drew a mixed media drawing using crayon and marker with blending.
In our next project we continued our shape theme and learned how to create a pattern design of spirals after we listened to "A House for Hermit the Crab". Currently we are continuing our shape theme (double arches) and studying the architecture of the Brooklyn Bridge. We are continuing to learn about horizontal, vertical and diagnol lines as we draw the web like cables of the Brooklyn Bridge.
We completed our Winter Family Collage and painted our snowy backgrounds with blue watercolor to create a crayon resist.
Our imaginations soared when we listened to a read-a-loud of Why is Blue Dog Blue? and drew our favorite dog any color we wanted to in any room of our house or outside in the park.
We will be listening to the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and begin our own wild things drawing!
First Grade- We started the year analyzing Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night". We talked about Van Gogh's brush strokes, use of color,shape and movement in his sky. We then drew our family with a sky like "Starry Night" using crayons,markers and blending. In our next project we continued our Van Gogh theme and listened to the book "Camille and the Sunflowers". We then illustrated a scene we recalled from the story.
In our next project we learned about Cubism when we listened to the book "Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail". We drew from observation when we drew from the model when one of our students poised as the girl with the ponytail. We broke up the space into overlapping shapes as we drew in the Cubist style using contrasting colors.
We are already learned about Paul Cezanne and how he created beautiful landscapes using three-dimensional shapes like the cube, cone and cylinder. We created our own landscape drawing after we listen to the book "Cezanne and the Apple Boy".
We finished drawing an illustration from William Steig's book "Rotten Island". The students will used their imaginations to create their own monster drawing of a scene of a paradise island.
Everyone had fun learning about the secrets of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa and watching her eyes follow them as they walked from left to center and then right of the painting on the smart board. We listened to a read-a-loud of Leonardo and the Flying Machine and designed our own flying machine.
Second Grade- Our first project started with a close look at photographs of Old New York. We learned about the transportation, fashion, and architecture from 1890-1930. Our artists drew pen and ink drawings with sepia pencil and learned hatching and crosshatching techniques. We continued our Old New York theme and analyzed the painting "The Green Car" by William Glackens. This inspired us to create another Old New York drawing in colored marker.
We continued our New York City theme by looking at Art Deco architecture from the 1930's. We compared the Chrysler building to the Empire State Building. Then we learned about the math concept of symmetry to draw the Empire State Building. Everyone watched an Empire State building light show on the smart board which inspired us to create colorful drawings of it.!
Currently we are leaving our urban theme of the city and we are going rural to begin our farm drawings.
Next we will be creating our own textured paper using the drawing technique of hatching and crosshatching. This paper will be used with other types of paper to create a dream collage.
We are currently finishing our dream collages. Class 2-213 was the first class to start their Children at Play drawing. They were inspired by Jean Chardin's (1699-1779) Soap Bubbles, 1734
Fourth Grade- We started out the year looking at reproductions of American Impressionist paintings. We reviewed the elements of art as we interpreted these paintings. Then we chose our favorite painting and created a pen and ink drawing using hatching and crosshatching. We also created another version in colored marker after we examined the watercolors of John Singer Sargent.
Our next drawing unit is about portraits and self-portraits. We began our unit by analyzing Copley's
famous portrait of Paul Revere. We looked at visual clues in the painting that told us about who and what Paul Revere was really about. Afterwards I introduced self-portrait proportions using Math and symmetry. We are all using mirrors to draw our self-portraits from observation.
I recently had the privilege of seeing "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665) by Vermeer at the Frick Museum. I shared this with class 4-301 along with the raved about Carl Fabritius's exquisite "Goldfinch" (1654). This exhibit titled "Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis" is a once in a lifetime opportunity. It is closing Jan. 19, 2013 and children need to be ten years old for admission. The lines are very long (1-3 hours) but you can avoid the lines if you become a member on the spot.
I hope some of you were able to see Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"- it may have been a once in a lifetime opportunity!
We are continuing our portrait theme now and creating more self portraits; this time we are wearing a Venetian Mask! We finally finished it and enjoyed using oil pastel techniques.
Our current project is creating our own cake/dessert painting after interpreting the Pop Art paintings of Wayne Thiebaud.
Fifth Grade- Our fifth graders started out using Cubism to examine the elements and principles of design. We looked at Picasso's painting "Man with a Pipe" and created our own version of this painting using our own object. We also added a self-selected foreign word, an original color scheme. textures and patterns to our artwork.
We extended our Cubism unit by looking at the Orphist artwork of Sonia Delaunay. We examined her textiles, fashion and paintings and found her to be quite ahead of her time. Her Orphist masterpiece "Electric Prisms" is the main focus of our discussions about art. We are working now designing our own version of this painting as a mixed-media painting. We are using a student driven art rubric to help us use the elements and principles of design as we create our artwork.
This past week most of us painted our Orphist design using metallic and fluorescent tempera paint. Boy did we have fun!
Read about "Girl with a Pearl Earring" under fourth grade notes (above).
We are now creating Tropical Rain Forest collages using colored paper and painted paper. Some of these collages will be exhibited at MS 74 along with our non-fiction writing on the rain forest. This project is a collaborative effort with the fifth grade classroom teachers.
We are being inspired by the artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) as we interpret his painting Sleeping Gypsy. We are also examining the elements and principles of design through his jungle painting Tropical Forest with Monkeys, 1910.
- Art teacher (Mrs. Zipper)