1st Grade
- This Week in Art
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| Week # & Newsletter | Artists | Themes | Mediums & Plan | Vocab |
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Week 1 9/6- |
Starter Question: Why is this Art/Why is this Good?, Hopes & Dreams in Art, Art Room Rules, Discovering the Studio Space | |||
| Week 2 Newsletter |
Stonehenge & Andy Goldsworthy | Discovering Materials: Earth Art | Natural Materials (taking natural materials and arranging them artistically & photographing) | stones, arrangement, line, shape, color, texture, value, form, space |
| Week 3 Newsletter |
drawing our stone creations from photgraphs & sharing our experience | |||
| Week 4 & 5 Newsletter |
Square 1 Arts Begins. Theme: Suns. |
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| Week 6 Newsletter |
Beverly Buchanan: Monroe County House with Yellow Datura | Crayons & Crayon Techniques | Drawing (holding, pressure, sideways, blend) | crayon, tip, side, pressure, blending, pale, vibrant |
| Week 7 | Kandinski: Composition IV, Pictures of Lines in their World | Seeing Lines: Lines All Around Us | Describing the lines we see & digital photo hunt around the school (outside if weather permits) | lines, straight, curved, zigzag, spiral, dotted, broken, wavy, crossed, diagonal, horizontal, vertical |
| Week
8 Newsletter |
Eric Carl | The Art of Tearing: Collage & Shapes | Begin Collage using paper | geometric, collage, grain, tear, free-form, organic, imagination, arrangement |
| Week 9 | Henri Matisse, The Snail | Drawing with Scissors | Using Cut our shapes to collage, continue on last collage or begin a new one | scissors, cutting hand, holding hand, muscles, thumb |
| Week 10 Newsletter |
Kandinski: Drawing for Diagram 17, Franz Kline: Meryon | Meeting the Paintbrush - a brushstroke composition | Paint - practice using your brush slow, use music to make strokes, ideas for paintings | Paintbrush, bristle, handle, ferule, arm, shoulder, elbow, wrist, finger joint |
| Week 11 | Holiday Gift Showing Clay Skills | Clay, Choice | Scrafito, Mishima, Transfer, slip, score, seal, texture, glaze, kiln | |
| Week 12 |
Holiday Gift Showing Clay Skills | glaze | Scrafito, Mishima, Transfer, slip, score, seal, texture, glaze, kiln | |
| Week 13 | Hans Hofman: Image of Cape Cod | Creating shapes with Paint - paint with blobs & outlines (abstract vs realism) | Paint with blobs & outlines | circle, square, rectangle, triangle, geometric shapes, free-form shapes (organic) |
| Week 14 |
Raoul Dufy: Regatta at Cowes | Serendipity: Watercolor Technique/experiments | experiements with watercolors - dots, washes, discovery by accident, sharing discoveries | light, dark, wet, value, dots, dabs, lines, pigment, transparent, serendipity |
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