Mrs. Edwards' Art Class

Yes, there is more wonderful pieces of art to see!!

• Students planned out a picture they could create using dots.
• We used water colors and Q-Tips to make our colorful dots.
• Students learned that dots closer together would create a darker shade, and the spaced out dots made lighter shades.
• No lines were allowed at all! Only dots!
• If you squint, you may be able to make out the object of our pointillism paintings!

This pointillism pie looks good enough to eat! By: Rachel- 6th Grade

Nice looking sunset! By: Noah- 5th Grade



A baseball complete with light source and shadow! By: Nathaniel- 5th Grade



Two little apples hanging from a branch! By: Bryan- 4th Grade

We hope you enjoyed these creative pointillism pictures! We worked very hard on these! Come back soon for more art!

We keep having this little glimpses of spring recently! I absolutely love the breezy weather, bright colors, and green goodness of spring! God is such a wonderful Creator to have given us these gifts of beauty! Can't wait til spring is here to stay!!

"Red Poppy" by Georgia O'Keeffe

Last week art students created breath-taking watercolor paintings of huge and colorful flowers. We learned about artist, Geogia O'Keeffe who is famous for her larger-than-life flowers. She used a variety of colors and sometimes abstract designs to make unique and exciting pieces of art. We painted lovely flowers with petals bursting off the page, and I have to say I love the results! Enjoy!

Welcome Faithful Readers and Brand New Visitors!

I have been waiting all week to share the exciting things we have been doing in art this week!! I wanted to celebrate Valentine's Day with each class, so this week was full of parties! I still wanted to incorporate a small addition to our study of possible careers in art. I chose to discuss the field of Culinary Arts!

We got to decorate cookies with lots (and I mean LOTS) of icing, sprinkles, colored sugar, and other things that will cause parents to shudder!! Before decorating, we played some awesome games and posed with our buddies in the Heart Photo Booth. Over all, it was an absolute blast! This is definitely going down in the top five most memorable weeks of art class! I

Now for a look at some of the fun we had:
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Kindergarten student, Gabe being a Culinary Artist!

 

Madelynne and Tessa in the Heart Photo Booth

Ashton and Cameron

2nd Grade boys get together.. We missed you, Alex!

Tomi and Skyler

2nd graders showing off their beautiful cookies!

Selena and Amy smiling big in the photo booth!

Gabrielle and Kaylyn- so sweet!

Some good-looking redheads: Levi and Grant

4th graders race to win the "Heart Toss."

Jacob, Isaac, and Luke cram into the heart photo booth!

Drew and Josh enjoying the Valentine Party!

If you're in the area, make sure you stop by the "Hall of Frame" to see even more pictures of the GCS art students having Valentine Fun!! Next week has even more great things in store! I hope everyone has a happy Valentine Weekend!

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!!

Congratulations on designing your own font, students! Keep up the great work!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare to be astounded!!

Never before seen invention sketches by 4th and 5th grade art students have been found in the deep crevices of the art room!

Happy 2011!! I hope everyone had a great Christmas break and safe new year's! I really enjoyed my time off, but I'm glad to be back with all my favorite artists!