What a relief!

3^rd Grade

Relief Weavings

Third grade students explored the element of Form to create Relief weavings. 

Beginnings: Students began gluing the WARP first.

They first glued a grid onto a support background and then used construction paper- bending, folding and gluing as they went to turn their weavings in to a 3 dimensional work of art. 

Once the WARP was complete they added the WEFT.
(WARP= Vertical fibers/WEFT= Horizontal fibers)

 Once the initial weaving was completed many students added additional decorative elements into the warp and weft of their weavings to create added interest.

Relief:  (in sculpture) any work in which the figures project from a supporting background, usually a plane surface.

Form: (in sculpture) an element of art used to describe a three dimensional work of art- length, width, height.

Display in front hallway

"Hay" there!

Kindergarten

Haystacks

Kindergarten's young artists looked closely at the work of Vincent Van Gogh as well as read and talked about the book Vincent’s COLORS with Mrs. Penney. The artwork created was inspired by the artists' "Haystacks in Provence". 

In their study of the artists’ work, Kindergarten’s young artists took notice of how Van Gogh used the elements of color and texture in his work.

Students applied paint with brushes, scrapers and even their hands as well as torn paper to reinvent Van Gogh’s vigorous brush strokes explore the art elements of texture and color.

What do you see in the artwork? I see...

Haystacks the color of...

a field that...

a sky the color of…

a roof that is...