Why the Sun and the Moon are in the Sky?

 Fourth Grade students created their Sun and Moon after we read an African folktale. Students used Warm and Cool colors and their knowledge about applying chalk pastels.

Using their prior knowledge, some students chose to create their Sun and Moon in a "Picasso like" manner.

Fourth Grade Self-Portraits 3 Ways

Fourth Graders created self-portrait prints after learning about contour lines. 

 

 

 

They viewed work by Henri Matisse and Alexander Calder.

Self-Portrait Fauve Style

Wire Sculpture Self-Portraits with Contrasting Color

Fourth Grade Personal Collages

 Fourth Graders learned about artists who created work that were personal statements about their lives. They looked at work by Romare Bearden and created collages that were about their own lives using a variety of textural papers.

Congratulations to Students selected for the MAEA Region 9 Student Show on display at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Lauren' Winter Beauty

   4th Grade 

                                                       

McKayla's Apples and Pears

3rd Grade

Jaryn's Tree of My Life

3rd Grade

Breanna's Recycle and Reuse Weaving

3rd grade

Maddie's Dreamy Neighborhood

 1st Grade

Fourth Grade Winter Trees

Loving Snow

Kindergarten Snowmen

Fourth Grade Snowmen at Night

Second Grade Snowmen at Night

Fourth Grade Underground Worlds

Fourth grade students reviewed prior lessons based on narrative artwork and viewed Surrealistic and other fantasy narrative art. We looked at Saul Steinberg's "Continuous Miner" and discussed how the artist used repetitive lines that produced a simulated texture in the "ground" area. Students drew a normal above ground scene with an imaginative world below, and filled in the surrounding area with simulated textural designs.

Fourth Grade Abstract "Stella" Relief Paintings