Welcome to Phippsburg Elementary School's art room blog! In the art room at Phippsburg Elementary we learn oodles about art and create doodles (among other things) that showcase the creativity and talents of Phippsburg students.

Friday, January 27, 2012

Winter Wonderland




I wish the world outside the windows of PES looked like this!  The rain is turning the pretty white snow into grayish-brown slush!  It's a good thing the second graders created these beautiful winter landscape!
Students learned the different "tricks" artists use to create depth in their artwork.  These tricks help landscapes look like you can walk right into them.  When they created their landscape there were asked to make colors bright to dark by mixing shades of gray, use overlapping and to make changes in size to show depth.  Although most of their work was made with tempera paint, craypas (oil pastels) were used for adding pops of color and detail.


Polar Bear, Polar Bear...

Sometimes people think artists need fancy materials to create art, but artists can use a variety of materials to paint with.  First graders used white tempera paint, cardboard pieces, Q-Tips and sponges to create a painting of a polar bear. The first graders are studying polar bears in their classroom, so they knew a lot about them.
The cardboard pieces and Q-tips were used to print snowflakes in the background and a piece of kitchen sponge was used to sponge paint the polar bear.  First graders tried to create a shadow under the chin of their polar bear by stamping black paint into the white.  Paintbrushes were used for the darling faces. 




Mrs. Polizotto got the idea for this project at http://kidsartists.blogspot.com/