Do you want to draw a snow-man? Kindergarten students learned how to draw a snow-man using shapes and oil pastels. Learning to draw using the whole paper can be a challenge, but kindergar-teners rose to the challenge and created some huge snowmen! Students used what they learned to create Christmas cards for nursing home residents in Hopedale.

What color do you get when you mix yellow and red?

ORANGE! Kindergarten students learned about color mixing and how to

make the secondary colors Or-ange and Green.

Value is the lightness and darkness of a color. Second graders learned to create multiple values using black and white tempera paint.

Drawing using perspective means to draw objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right im-pression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a par-

ticular point. Students drew snowmen as if they were 12 feet tall using oil pastels.

Second Grade

Kindergarten Elementary, Jr. High, & H.S. Art

Content Covered: Mixed media

Shape

Secondary Colors

Color

Oil Pastels

Landscape

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night

Space

Perspective

Value

Edvard Munch

Highlight/Shadow

Ted Harrison

Tempera paint

Day of the Dead

Pinch pot

Slab building

Gesture

Zentangles

Watercolor

Tints & shades

Sculpture

Morgan Elser

Glaze

Texture

Soft Pastels

First Grade

Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker is a book about all the hardworking trucks get-ting ready to say good-night. First graders constructed a mixed media artwork using tempera paints.

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A landscape is a picture of land and all it’s natural fea-tures. The natural land around Delavan is farmland.

Students created a natu-ral landscape with a ruler that showed the distance of space surrounding Dela-van.

Gesture in art is an action, emo-tion, movement, or expression of a figure in an artwork. Third graders learned about the bone structure of the human figure and created a gesture using Q-tips. Students also learned about Day of the Dead and what it means to people of Mexican heritage.

A person who specializes in the study of animals is called a zoologist. Third graders were given the job of zoologists. They just discovered a new animal species and had to record characteristics about their animal discovery. What color is it? What does it eat? Where does it live? How big is it? Then they drew a picture of their animal for the world to see

their new discovery. Students were also challenged to create a new spe-cies. They could combine character-istics of two different animals into

Ever see the Northern Lights? Stu-dents learned about Ted Harrison’s artic landscapes and how he incorpo-rated the colors of the Northern Lights into his paintings. Students learned how blend using liquid tem-pera paint. Students used a double load technique to load their paint brushes with two colors a the same time.

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learned how to create a sky like van Gogh by double loading their paint brush. This is a technique

where you load both sides of a flat brush with two different colors at the same time.

Highlights and shadows help 2-dimentional drawing look 3D. Fourth grade students learned how to apply light and shadow to make a drawing of a pumpkin look more 3D. Students also learned about texture and how to create texture using color sticks.

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most famous artists in the history of Western art. His use of line in Starry Night to cre-ate the suggestion of movement was one of the most acclaimed works in modern art. Students

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

one new species. A dragon and a lion would make a pretty inter-esting animal. Would you like one as a pet?

Texture is the why something feels or looks like it feels. Soft pastels, the most commonly used pastel, are made with a com-bination of white chalk, pigment and gum arabic, which gives it a drier matte finish. Students used charcoal and soft pastels to cre-ate an owl with texture and color.

Six grade students learned about cultures that use masks for celebration. Day of the Dead is celebrated by people of Mexi-can heritage. Students related this to sugar skulls in the movie

Coco. Students then created a mask out of paper clay and painted and decorated it based on their

theme. Some students added embel-lishments.

the art of making pottery or ceramics. There is a long history of ceramic art in almost all developed cul-tures, and often ceramic

objects are all the artistic evidence left from vanished cultures.

Watercolor is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based soltion. Watercolor refers to both the medium and the re-sulting artwork. A tint is a mix-ture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both pro-cesses affect the resulting color mixture's relative light-ness. Students added highlights and shadows to give their ob-jects mass and make them look more realistic using both water-color and oil pastels.

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Basic Art

Sixth Grade

Junior High Art

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7th Grade

High School Art

The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch in 1 893. Stu-dents learned why Munch creat-ed his famous painting The Scream. After learning how to blend oil pastel, students created their own mini version of the fa-mous painting. Students learned about the patterns of Zentangle art to create a holiday themed artwork. Students also learned

Fourth grade students will be ex-ploring new techniques for creating artwork and learning about various artists.

Fifth grade students will be apply-ing what they have learned about col-or theory and the color wheel and beginning a clay/sculpture unit.

Sixth grade will be creating paint-ings and mixed media artworks.

Seventh grade students are learning about the Elements and Principles of art and how to identify and use them in their own artwork.

Kindergarten will be practicing fine motor skills and the use of materials through cutting, gluing, and painting winter artworks.

First grade students are learning about mixing media and will use various materials that show their understand-ing of basic art concepts.

Second grade students will be using new art skills to tell stories and ex-press ideas through painting and draw-ing.

Third grade will be creating art-works of various cultures.

Advanced Painting/Drawing students will explore various types of painting and drawing mediums to create ex-pressive artworks that are personally meaningful.

Painting/Drawing students will learn about famous artists and techniques used to crate some famous artworks.

Looking Ahead

High School Art 3D Art

Ceramics The pinch pot technique is often the first thing taught to begin-ning potters because it is a good way to get familiar with the prop-erties of clay. Students created pumpkins by connecting two pinch pots to form a hollow ball. Tex-ture was added to the outside using clay tool (carving was op-tional).

Sculpture Students created a whimsical birdlike sculpture from various materials. Inspired by the whimsi-cal bird sculpture of local artist Morgan Elser, students exam-ined various birds and designed their sculpture to represent that species. Gravity is important to consider when creating a free standing sculpture.

Ceramics

Glaze can serve to color, deco-rate or waterproof an item. Glaze renders earthenware vessels suitable for holding liq-uids, sealing the inherent porosi-ty of unglazed biscuit earthen-ware. Students glazed their face vases to help communicate the emotion of their vase. What emo-tion does this vase communicate?

Delavan students created Christmas cards for residents in the nursing home in Hopedale, IL.