Chinese New Year!

The art room is all decorated for Chinese New Year. This year is year of the Rat. Pictures of projects to come soon! We're learning about dragons, tangrams, pandas, and other interesting customs and ideas!

Second Grade Update: Snowglobes!

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Coming home soon...second grade snowglobes! We looked at some paintings by Grandma Moses and learned about the foreground, middleground, and background of an artwork, specifically landscape paintings. We added some glitter and shimmery additives to white paint to give our now a freshly fallen look.

Food+Art=YUM!

Odysee Art students recently made their own version of the color wheel-an edible version! Colors were mixed using food coloring and icing spread on Nila wafers. It was a fun and tasty project!

4th Grade Update

Currently on display are these bottle colors wheels done by fourth grade students. We created symmetrical bottle shapes, adding designs with Sharpie markers. Where the primary colored bottles (red, yellow, and blue) and primary color bottles (orange, violet, and green) overlap are the tertiary colors. Tertiary colors include orange-yellow, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green, and yellow-green.

3rd Grade Update

These will be going home soon, probably next week. Currently they are on display in the hall, looking great!

Here are some shots of Mrs. Ambrose's Kindergarten working on their Valentine's Day torn paper cards:

A first grader works on our latest project!

Second Grade Update

Here are the second graders' first completed project. Black tempera paint, oil pastels, and crayons wer e used. Your child should be bringing this home attached with a review sheet on the back, so you can see what they learned in doing this assigment. These were very abstract and fun. I think they turned out great!

1st Grade Update

Finally I have the first graders' first project to share with you. These should be coming home, if not already, this week. Each artwork has attached to it a review sheet that I hope will be useful in letting you know what your child was learning about in the creation of the artwork.