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.

Monday, February 13, 2012

100 Hearts!



The 100th day of school and Valentine's Day are the same day this year! In honor of these two great days coinciding first and second graders tried drawing 100 hearts.  I taught them a heart drawing trick-"draw a 3 and then a V" (see below).  We talked about strategies of fitting all of those hearts on one paper-overlapping, changing size, and drawing partial hearts to activate the edges of the paper. After students drew the hearts they had a choice of coloring solid colors or using the texture rubbing plates we have in the art room to add interest.


100 Day Art!

Face of an Owl

Scuba Diver Mask

Key to a Door
 
Tomorrow, February 14, 2012, is the 100th day of school at Phippsburg Elementary! To celebrate, third graders were challenged to use their imaginations to use the number 100 in a piece of art. They traced the numbers, cut them out and got creative! 

 Turbo Truck
 Zombie Girl and Jewelry Store Thief
 Monster Truck
Hunter

Friday, February 10, 2012

Rosy Hearts






Pablo Picasso had many different art styles during his career.  Art historians have given names to these periods of art in his life.  Fourth grade has been studying Picasso's Blue Period and Rose Period.  The Rose Period was after Mr. Picasso's Blue Period.  During his Blue Period he was depressed, poor and unsettled. Then, as he became successful his attitude became more positive and he began using brighter colors and depicting happier images.  And, he fell in love! As you can see from the hearts, this lesson is inspired by Mr. Picasso's Rose Period. Students were given red, magenta, white and black paint and asked to create a large heart painted in tints and shades of red. I believe this hearts would cheer anyone's day!

This lesson was completely swiped from the awesome art teacher blog Painted Paper.

Cubist Portraits






 Fifth graders studied Pablo Picasso's Cubist portraits.  To create his portraits, Mr. Picasso took two different views of a face and combined them into one image.  Fifth graders created three portrait collages by combining a front view of a face and a profile.  They also learned about complimentary colors, which are across from each other on the color wheel.  Each pair of complimentary colors has one primary and one secondary color.  Facial features we added using scraps of paper and details were done with black tempera paint. The results were colorful and imaginative!