Kindergarten

“Waterlilies”

Kindergarten’s young artists looked closely at the work of Claude Monet as well as read and talked about the book A Blue Butterfly by Bijou Le Tord with Mrs. Penney. The artwork displayed was inspired by the artists’ “Waterlilies”.

Students used oil pastels and tempera over them to create a resist. To add the element of texture, they then collaged tissue paper to create lily pads and to add their waterlilies. 

School Wide Artist Study: Georgia O'Keeffe

American painter Georgia O'Keeffe was most famous for her large format flower paintings. Known for her unique artistic vision, she painted throughout most of the 20th century. In Art with Mrs. Penney our Farmingville art students looked at various works created by the artist. 

While she was most well known for her flowers, the artist explored many other types of subject matter as well. O'Keeffe would often go for walks and hikes, picking up small tokens of nature along the way like leaves, shells and animal bones and take them back to her studio to paint. 

Each grade level will be focusing in on one of O'Keefe's favorite finds and create artwork inspired by the artists’ work. 

Here is a sneak peek...

Stay tuned for updates and to see how our finished art work turns out!

3rd Grade explores Audubon...

For John James Audubon, painting began as a hobby. His major interest was studying birds. He was the first person to track the habits of birds by tying string around their ankles. 

When you go to the zoo, you will notice that many of the animals have tags somewhere, maybe clipped to their ears or attached around their legs. Audubon began this. 

3rd Graders took a close look at John James Audubon style and body of work. No one before him him had captured birds in with such likeness and detail. Students were asked...

Why do you think that is? How do you think he was able to accomplish this? 

To create our Audubon inspired artwork our 3rd grade artists utilizes a number of art techniques such as crayon rubbings, painting, drawing, printmaking and collage. Students were able to choose from photos of indigenous North East birds as their subjects...they even worked in the Learning Commons with Mrs. Valleca to research and learn some facts about the birds they chose!

 

For a look at John James Audubon's "Birds of America" please click here.