A Farmingville Elementary community MURAL!

1. As a celebration of Farmingville's 50th Anniversary, every student at FES participated in the creation of a commemorative mural. To prepare, Mrs. Penney first explained what a mural was: 
2. A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface. A distinguishing characteristic of mural painting is that the architectural elements of the given space are harmoniously incorporated into the picture.
3. To prepare for it's creation some students created paper mosaics while others painted sheets of paper with acrylic paint that would be used to create the mural.

   
   

   
4. Mrs. Penney designed the mural and enlarged it using a grid method then painted it in a gray scale (Grayscale is a range of shades of gray without apparent color).
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    The painted paper was cut into various sizes and added by the students one piece at a time to create a large scale paper mosaic (Mosaic is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials).
   
   
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   On view at our 5th grade graduation!

   Stay tuned...the mural is scheduled to be installed over the summer and will be ready to greet our community and welcome back our students as they enter our building in August 2015.
   
   
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3^rd Grade 

ArchForKids 

3D Facades: 
All Around My Community

As an extension to their museum visit to the Katonah Museum of Art and in, Mrs. Penney arranged for 3rd grade visits to participate in a 2 day  studio unit with ArchForKids, an organization that brings engaging hands- on learning experiences grounded in architecture , design, engineering and urban planning.

 Third grade students became architects and engineers in training. They learned what constitutes an ideal community and then constructed 3D facades using pictures of buildings of their town.  Students worked in pairs or trio's to complete their structures and then places them on a street to create their own vision of an ideal community. 

 Their individual buildings  included many of the architectural details as well as some of the notable structures of Ridgefield. 

theartwalk@farmingville2015

A special thanks goes out to all who helped make this years ART WALK a huge success! More than 900 pieces of artwork were displayed at this years show and featured artwork from every art student in every grade K-5. Here are just a few pictures for you to take a look at....

Matisse inspired art work.

color study birds.

Reduction Prints

art room display featuring ART LEAP marionettes

Thiebaud inspired art work 

Kindergarten studies the element of line

Van Gogh inspired art work.