Mrs. Edwards' Art Class

Welcome back!
Did you already read about the graphic designs of 1st-3rd grade and Kindergarten? Make sure you check those out to hear what we have been learning about the career of a graphic designer!!

5th and 6th grade art students learned about fonts, creative lettering, and how to design a unique font (and come up with a great name for it!) Since, good design includes consistency in theme throughout the whole alphabet, students were required to write out the entire alphabet (upper and lower case) in their new font. They also had to write out the famous pangram: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" to test the font in sentence format!

Take a look at these potential future fonts!!

But wait!
There is more to graphic design week! Hopefully you already read about Kindergarten's wonderful creations! If not, check back to read all about how we learned what it means to be a graphic designer!

Art students in grades 1st, 2nd, and 3rd experimented with designing advertisements. What were we advertising? Only the best school in the world: Grace Christian School! Woo!! Go Soldiers!

Oh.. I guess I'll let the advertisements speak for themselves....

Welcome Friends!
As we continued our study of different careers in the world of art, we came upon the job of a graphic designer! Most graphic designers do their work on a computer, but plenty of sketchwork is done on real paper. That is why everything you will see from this week is not digitally created. Plus- getting the computer to do what we want it to do is sometimes a very hard and frustrating thing!! I prefer to skip the frustration of the computer for elementary students and get those great ideas out on paper!!

Kindergarten has learned what a logo is, how to design something that promotes your product (this includes pictures and colors that relate to the product), and how to make some creative lettering for the whole thing! So what were making logos for? Grace Christian School of course!!!

Take a look at these nice samples of student-designed logos! Pretty impressive!

Hello again!!

During Fashion Design week, 6th grade art students took on the job of designing a new and exciting pattern! We learned that fashion design is not intended for clothes only. We created beautiful patterns for many items such as wallpaper, bedspreads, and lawn chairs! The possibilities are endless!


Check out the nicely planned designs!

And yet another snow day has delayed the blogging of GCS Art Students! Thankfully, we are back on track, and you are going to love what we created last week!!

In case you haven't noticed, January is all about occupations in the art world! First we talked about illustrators, then we learned about inventors, and last week we learned about fashion design. Fashion design is not limited to run-ways, crazy outfits, and deathly high heels!! We discovered that "fashion" is all around us, and that somebody out there designed it!

Kindergarten art students got a chance to design their very own shirt or dress. We reviewed symmetry and patterns and colors. We carefully planned out the design with our pencil, colored it with crayons, then presented each one to the class. Then we voted (by applause) on our favorite patterns that we would love to wear some day! What do you think of these future fashion designers?

Gabrielle - 1st Grade

Jonathan - 2nd Grade

Selena - 3rd Grade

Jenna - 3rd Grade

Josh - 1st Grade

Lilly - 2nd Grade