Square 1 Art: Fall 2013, 3rd Grade Project

Here is an example of my third grade project for my Square 1 Art fundraiser, 2013. This student is showing so much creativity in her hippo portrait. A bathing suit! I love the humor my students show in their art. It's inspiring. 

More 2nd Grade Portrait Weavings

Not all of these are finished yet, but they are on their way to being fantastic!

Carolyn Braden: LVAA 5th Grade Grant Tile Project

While waiting for my kiln to be ready for use, we are prepping to start our LVAA (Louisville Visual Art Association) funded tile project. Fifth grade students will be creating 4-inch low relief self portrait tiles. When they paint their tile, they must follow a painting diagram I created. After the tile mural is assembled, viewers will see the self portraits when standing close, then see our school mascot, the dolphin, when standing further away. See my diagram in the photo below. Some classes will start sketches next week.

Learn about your student's upcoming projects!

This week our Art of the Day slides are dedicated to learning all about William Wegman.  He's a wonderful photographer that is mostly famous for taking photos of his very well trained Weimaraners.  Interested in learning more about William Wegman?  Check out his website at http://www.wegmanworld.com/home.html


How Art of the Day works: 
We discuss a particular artist work at the beginning of every class.  Through this we learn how to talk about art.  I am teaching my students to voice their opinion about various works of art while using art vocabulary.  Next week, we will be learning all about Pop Artist Alex Katz.  Want to learn about Katz before your student?  Check out his website:  http://www.alexkatz.com/


Some of last year's Art of the Day artists:  Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Annie Leibovitz, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keefe, Chuck Close, Wassily Kandinsky, and Vincent Van Gogh.




Here's what your students are working on now and what's in the works for their next projects:


Classes I currently have are working on the River Sweep Poster Contest.  With this project we are learning about the vocabulary line, shape, color, space, foreground, middleground, background, and media.  We are also learning how to keep our rivers clean through not littering.  Some students works will be selected to represent Byck in the contest.  If chosen as a Grand Prize winner by contest officials, students win a $500.00 U.S. Savings Bond plus state-wide recognition.  There will also be 12 runner-ups selected by contest officials.  The prize for runner-up is a $50.00 U.S. Savings Bond plus state-wide recognition.




Upcoming projects after the River Sweep Posters:


5th:  Graffiti Arts:  A portrait of all about me! 


4th:  2 Sided Self-Portraits 


3rd:  Georgia O'Keefe Flowers


2nd:  Pigasso and Mootisse Portraits


1st:  The Rainbow Fish Portraits.  


K:  I do not currently have a kindergarten class.  However, when I have my first group we will start by working on projects like The Dot (shape project), See If You Can Draw, and Paper Mosaic Shapes, Pink! A Penguin Project.


Thanks for checking out this week's blog!  


Sincerely, 


Carolyn Braden