What's been happening in the Millville art room?

You may be wondering why I haven't updated the blog this school year at all.  Well the answer is I haven't had the time to update it because I went back to school!  Today I'm posting a few photos from projects we've done this year.  As soon as I have some spare time I'll make regular posts about each one of the projects we've done this year.  Thanks for your patience!

We started the year with SELFIES. We did collages of ourselves with construction paper, all of these will hang in the art room until the end of the year.

Next, we did a unit on COLOR.  We started by filling out color wheels.

First and second grade did color wheels with 6 colors.  These are second graders Josh and Dylan.

3rd, 4th and 5th grade did color wheels with 12 colors.  These are 4th graders Sabrina, Katie and Ty.

After we filled out color wheels we did color projects with oil pastels and watercolor.

1st and 2nd grades did rainbow birds.  This was painted by Samantha in 2nd grade.

The older kids did warm colored chameleons, with cool colored backgrounds.
This was also painted by a student named Samantha, who's in 3rd grade. 

Once we finished learning about color, we moved on to TEXTURE AND PATTERN 

After learning about pattern we did zentangles!

Azi drawing patterns!

Charlie is rubbing the texture of tree bark onto her paper.

After learning about texture we drew monsters.
Eric's monster has a furry texture.

We also made INK-BLOT CREATURES!  If you want to know more about this process you can visit The Daily Monster.

Aubrey made her ink-blot into the wing of a bird.

In December we had a whole unit in which we learned about how artist convey depth in their work.  

We created DEPTH COLLAGES with paper we painted.

1st and 2nd grades did underwater scenes.

3rd, 4th and 5th grades did landscapes.