Friday, September 26, 2014

International Dot Day


The Artwork / The Process

Students from Kindergarten through 5th grade used different techniques and mediums to create their artwork such as liquid tempera, oil pastels, chalk pastels, glue, watercolor paint tempera cakes and cut paper.

KINDERGARTEN
 
Kindergarten students used solid poster paint sticks to create one or many “dots” in some cases discovering that by mixing the colors they were able to make others.

 FIRST GRADE
First Grade students explored printmaking using recycled “dot” shaped objects to print multiple dots with white liquid tempera on black paper.

SECOND GRADE
Second Grade students first created different sized masks for their “dots” to mask- out areas where they didn't want their medium to go (in this case oil- pastel). They then applied watercolor to select areas in some cases creating a resist technique.


 THIRD GRADE 

 FOURTH GRADE
Third & Fourth Graders took inspiration from “ish” creating “ish” drawings with sharpie and adding watercolor paint. Third grades subject matter was decided by students picking “ish” words out of a hat while Fourth graders chose three “favorites” to create “ish” drawings of, including favorite places or foods.

 FIFTH GRADE
Fifth Grade took inspiration from “sky color”, creating their own sky color backgrounds using watercolor techniques and then created silhouettes from cut black paper to illustrate a scene.

Friday, September 12, 2014

Creatrilogy

To kick off the year in Mrs. Penney’s art class students school wide are celebrating “International Dot Day” which takes place on September 15th “ish” by creating artwork inspired by author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds “creatrilogy” which includes “the dot” , “ish” and “Sky Color”. In Art students have been creating artwork inspired by the book trilogy. At open house please feel free to visit Mrs. Penney in room 24 and take part in the Farmingville community “dot” gallery by creating your own mini “dot” to be included in the display and preview the books which she will have available in her classroom. Images coming soon!