3rd Grade Pop-Art Prints

The third grader's began their Pop Art adventure by learning about Andy Warhol, one of the most famous artists to ever live. They learned all about his life as an artist and the type of art that he made. Andy Warhol made a type of art called "pop-art". This means that he took things from our everyday lives (POPular items) and incorporated them into his art. He did a lot of artwork about movie stars (Marilyn Monroe, Elvis), Campbell's soup cans and self portraits. Warhol often used a method called printmaking to creat his art. The third graders followed in his footsteps and made some prints of their own!

They first drew their self portaits into a piece of styrofoam with a pencil, making sure to press hard enough to make a dent in the foam. They then put in on the styrofoam and transferred the image to a sheet of paper by rubbing the inked side of the foam onto a piece of paper. I love the bright colors in this project! Way to go guys!

3rd Grade Positive/Negative Space Masks

The 3rd graders have been learning a lot about the element of space. We've learned that it is the area we can create art in... it goes from side to side, top to bottom and from the front of the picture to the back of the picture (depth). We learned we can create depth by overlapping objects and also by using scale. We have now added one more thing to the element of space: Positive space and negative space. Positive space happens where objects have been added to a piece of artwork. Negative space is the empty space left over. In order to explore positive and negative space a little more, we created masks! The students had to be good direction followers and great listeners in order to get theirs to turn out right. Can you tell which spaces are positive and which spaces are negative?

3rd Grade Oaxacan Animals

The 3rd graders have been stellar art students while learning about Oaxacan (pronounced wa-ha-can) animals. The Oaxacan people who live in Oaxaca, Mexica have been making these colorful creatures for generations. Traditionally the animals are carved out of wood and then painted. In art class, we made them out of clay and then glazed them. The bright colors we used were inspired by Mexican life, nature and traditions! We loved seeing all the bright colors they use!

Snow Globe

Third graders have been busy working away on their snow globes. They are turning out beautifully! We learned about foreground, background, overlapping and depth with these projects. Whew! That is a lot of information to cover! The third graders did great, though, and not only learned alot but produced some great art! Nice work!

3rd Grade Intitials

Our Jasper Johns initials are completed and hanging out in the Hallway. Jasper Johns is a great American artist who loves using letters and numbers in his artwork. We used the letters of our initials to make our artwork.

3rd Grade Fall Trees

These trees are definitely one of my favorite projects! Each students' was unique and beautiful. The third graders did a great job of following my directions as I asked them to draw horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines. They are getting those directional lines down pat! After drawing our trees and making them nice and thick, they painted the background with water color. Watching the students paint their backgrounds was very inspiring! Each student took their time and really concentrated on being a neat and thoughtful painter. Our halls look very festive with these lovely trees!

I'm always so impressed...

The third graders have done a wonderful job working on their fall trees. I love the way each student's project turns out differently! We are emphasizing the element of Line in these pictures. How many different kinds of lines can you see?

First graders just finished up their Wassily Kandinsky quilt pieces. We looked at some of Kandinsky's artwork and found all of the different kinds of lines we could. Being inspired by Wassily, we took black crayons and drew different types of lines on our quilt blocks. Remembering to keep our pieces abstract, we colored our artwork in with bright, vivid colors. Wow, first graders, these look great!