Ms. Baker's Art Room

Odysee Portrait Boxes

2008-05-15T18:11:00.000-07:00

These portrait boxes were created by the 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students in Odysee Art. They learned how to draw a proportionate face before doing their own self portrait in pencil and oil pastel on watercolor paper. Found items from home and the art room were used to decorate the boxes in a way that reflected the student's personality and interests.

Warhol Projects

2008-05-15T18:01:00.000-07:00

First grade hands in the style of Andy Warhol!

Fourth grade students also studied Andy Warhol, using styrofoam to create prints of famous people and other pop culture icons. Above we have popular WWE wrester Rey Mysterio!

Spongebob!

Pikachu!

Harry Potter!

Fifth Grade Update

2008-05-15T17:51:00.000-07:00

In fifth grade we studied Keith Haring, an artist who got his start doing chalk drawings in the subways of New York City. He drew simplified figures and symbols in bright colors that showed motion.

We reinforced our knowledge of Keith Haring by doing our own chalk drawings in his style outside!

Fourth Grade Pop Art Products

2008-05-15T17:43:00.000-07:00

Fourth grade students chose a product package to draw from Ms. Baker's Mini Mart. After their drawings were completed, they were painted with one being in realistic colors, and the other in crazy colors. We were studying the famous Pop Artist, Andy Warhol, who is most famous for his paintings and silkscreens of soup cans.

Wayne Thiebaud

2008-05-15T17:31:00.000-07:00

Second and third grade students learned about the Pop Artist, Wayne Thiebaud. Second graders focused on his gumball paintings, while the third graders looked at his cakes. Both grades learned how to draw three dimensional looking cakes, and how to draw layered cakes.

Cake stands were added for an extra lesson on symmetry.

First Grade Update

2008-05-15T17:24:00.000-07:00

First grade students painted mixed up flags in the style of Pop Artist, Jasper Johns. Happy 78th Birthday today, Jasper!

Kindergarten Update

2008-05-15T17:03:00.000-07:00

We created these colorful butterfly prints by folding painted paper in half to create symmetrically balanced wings.

We also made these step by step drawings of flowers, grass, and ladybugs using many different lines: zig zag, curved lines, nail lines, etc.

Kindergarten students recently had some messy fun creating bubble print backgrounds for their underwater fish pictures.

POP ART!!!

2008-04-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

We've started a new unit on Pop Art, an art movement of the 1960s. We are studying artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Indiana, George Segal, Keith Haring, and others!

Second and third graders have been having a great time making this Claes Oldenburg inspired ice cream sculptures! They look good enough to eat! All grade levels are really interested in this project, so if I can get a donation of more cups, I'd like to do more of them.

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Sixth Grade Guitar Design!

2008-04-02T17:20:00.000-07:00

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April Showers, Bring on the Flowers!

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Cherry Blossoms!

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4th and 3rd

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The yellow and red artworks are tangrams by the third grade.

Panda masks were made by kingergarteners.

Oranges and Tangerines

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First Grade Pandas

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Fifth Grade Update

2008-03-16T09:37:00.001-07:00

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Chinese New Year!

2008-02-26T08:34:00.000-08:00

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!

2008-02-23T10:29:00.000-08:00

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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!

2008-02-11T17:02:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-11T15:50:00.000-08:00

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

2008-02-11T15:42:00.000-08:00

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

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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

2008-02-11T15:28:00.001-08:00

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

2008-02-11T15:15:00.000-08:00

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.

2008-01-21T17:18:00.000-08:00

All fourth grade classes recently made colorful luminary bags for the Starke County Relay for Life kick off event last week in Knox. The bags will be used again for our school's mini relay in May. The kids did a wonderful job, making many sweet and touching bags. Several students also made bags in honor of fellow OD fourth grader who is currently battling cancer. For more information on Relay for Life visit their website at: http://www.relayforlife.org/

Odysee Christmas

2008-01-21T17:05:00.000-08:00

Odysee Art did a great job decorating for the Christmas program. We made six 9'x3' banners with snowflakes painted on them, then outlined them in glitter. We also made white luminary bags. Here are a few pictures from the program of the banners, in case you missed it!

Welcome and Supplies

2007-12-14T07:28:00.002-08:00

Welcome!

This blog will be dedicated to all things art at Oregon Davis Elementary, as well as the Odysee Art program.

Art classes will begin when we return from Christmas Break on January 8th.

Please make sure your child's art box is equipped with the following supplies:

Glue (white Elmer’s glue or glue sticks are fine, one of each would be great but not required.)
Crayons
Pencil
Scissors
Set of watercolor paints
Optional: markers, colored pencils, a ruler, and erasers
Donations of Kleenex would also be greatly appreciated as we get into the cold season!