6th Grade Personality Portraits

For their final project, 6th grade students learned about silhouettes and portraiture. We discussed different personality traits and interests that we all have. We talked about how although we may like different things or look different ways, we are all unique and special. 

Portraits were created in a silhouette form. Students filled in their silhouettes with different interests or words describing their personalities. Using a watercolor crayon resist, these portraits came out colorful and bold!

 

Kindergarten Number Painting

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 & 9! Kindergartners created art work inspired by Jasper Johns. They focused on the correct way to write their numbers! We used oil pastels and liquid watercolor in this colorful project!

 

 

7th Grade Candy Pop Paintings

7th graders had a sweet time with their latest painting project! Students learned about Pop Art and discussed well known products that were considered a part of our popular culture.

For our project, students chose a candy and created their own Pop Art painting of the product! They were able to change colors and crop their images to create an interesting and unique composition.

Check out some of their sweet treats!

5th Grade Personalized Soup Cans

5th Grade students at SJV recently learned about the exciting and POPular artist, Andy Warhol. Students loved Warhol's use of bright colors and playful imagery.

Students donned the roles of chefs and designers in this project. They had to create their own flavor of soup and design the label for their soup cans. 5th graders chose some wacky soup flavors including Bacon Cheeseburger, Pizza, Goldfish Crackers, and even Candy flavored soups!

To design their labels, students studied Campbell's soup packages. Using watercolor paints students created fun labels for their unique soups!

Check out some of the end results!

 

 

Fantastic job, 5th grade!

6th Grade Eric Joyner Inspired Paintings

Robots and Doughnuts!

In a unit featuring Humor in Art, 6th grade students learned about  Contemporary artist, Eric Joyner. The humorous paintings of Joyner feature personified robots and doughnut imagery. 

6th graders loved the playful and Surreal paintings of Joyner. In this lesson, they had to create a painting of a robot, personified in an everyday human roll. They also had the task of including a doughnut into the scene!

Here are some of the 6th grade's humorous work:

Fantastic job, 6th grade!

5th Grade Scream Paintings

Earlier this year students in the 5th grade learned about Edvard Munch and his famous image, The Scream!

In this lesson students discussed the different reasons people might feel the need to scream, whether it be in fear, surprise, or even joy!

Their task was to create their own image of the famous Scream, with themselves as the subject. Infused in this reproduction, students were to include visuals of why they might scream.

Check out some of their work:

 

 

Scream-tacular art, 5th grade!

1st Grade Elmer the Elephant Collage

  

First Grade students read the book "Elmer the Elephant". It's a great story about a patchwork elephant who lives in a colorful jungle. Students created watercolor collages using warm colors or cool colors to give Elmer a day or night time scene!

 

 

Awesome job, 1st grade!

4th Grade Watercolor "Stained Glass"

Students in the 4th grade recently completed a wonderful art lesson all about watercolor!

In this lesson students experimented with different watercolor techniques, discovered the history of stained glass, learned about artists Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Comfort Tiffany, and even reflected upon the beautiful stained glass at our church!

Inspired by stained glass in our church, students designed their own stained glass work of art, filling in the colors using watercolor paint!

You can see these fabulous paintings at our Open House on Thursday, Feb. 6th from 6:30-8:00pm! They are located at the cafeteria entrance way!

 

 

 

 

 Marvelous job, 4th grade!!!!!!!