2nd Grade Oil Pastel Study

Second graders were introduced to oil pastels in a recent art class. They loved how the pastels had bright, vivid colors and were like a soft crayon! In this lesson students learned about different oil pastel techniques such as blending. We also studied colorful and bright art by Wassily Kandinsky.

Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky's famous circle art, each student created their own oil pastel circle on a 6"x 6" square. The squares were hung in a grid pattern in the hallway!

Here is their finished product:

Awesome job, 2nd grade!

4th Grade 3D Movement Figures

This week 4th graders took home their 3D figures inspired by Keith Haring's art. Using pipe cleaners, tin foil,  plaster wrap and paint, our figures captured the principle of art, movement.

The 4th grade did such an awesome job! These made us all want to dance!

Check out the student work:

Awesome job, 4th grade!

2nd Grade How I Show My Faith Art

This year in the Catholic Church we are celebrating the Year of Faith. Inspired by this celebration, 2nd graders created art work showing how they show their faith everyday! We learned about warm and cool colors by creating a tissue paper collage base. We used watercolor pencils to draw a faith picture!

Check out some of the art!

Great job 2nd grade!

Art Club: Henna Hands

The second session of Art Club were worldly explorers by traveling the globe and exploring art from different countries and cultures!

For their first project, students learned about the art of Henna. Henna is temporary body art is popular in Western cultures and are often used to commemorate celebrations and ceremonies.

Henna designs are intricate, elaborate, and very beautiful! k out what some of the Art Clubbers created!

 
Wonderful job Art Clubbers!

1st Grade "Where the Wild Things Are" Creatures

First graders took on the roll of book illustrators by creating crazy creatures inspired by Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are!

Our creatures are all unique and wild! We used patterns and a watercolor crayon resist to fill our creatures with crazy colors! Since we all loved the part of the book where the Wild Things have a 'wild rumpus' we decorated our creatures with construction paper party accessories!

These came out so fun!

Wonderful wacky work, 1st grade!

2nd Grade Fantastic Felines

Laurel Burch was an exciting artist who loved to paint colorful, patterned cats! Students in the 2nd grade loved learning about the playful subject matter of her work! We created a watercolor crayon resist to fill our cats with bright, beautiful colors!

Wonderful job 2nd grade!

1st Grade Pointillism Snowmen

Students dove into the world of Pointillism in a fun, dot-filled painting project! Pointillism features paintings composed of tons of tiny dots of paint. First graders created their very own happy snowmen inspired by the movement!

These were hung next to the 2nd grader's Snowy Silhouettes to create a wonderful winter display!

Amazing job, 1st grade!

2nd Grade Snowy Night Collage

In a project that mixed Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and our current winter season, 2nd graders created snowy nighttime silhouettes!

We created collage scenes using different layers of paper. We even created swirling night skies using paint, watercolor, and salt! The second grade worked really hard on their silhouettes! They were all so unique!

Great job, 2nd grade!

Pre-K Shape Monsters

The Pre-K artists reinforced their knowledge of shapes, colors, and cutting skills by creating their own shapes monsters. We used construction paper, markers, and foam shapes! Students did a fantastic job cutting, pasting, and creating these silly monsters!

Here is some of our wacky monsters!

Wonderful job Pre-K!

Art Club: Chinese New Year Dragons

For this session of Art Club, students are 'traveling the world' to learn about fun and beautiful art from around the globe! 

Students, from grades 3-5, 'flew' to China to celebrate the Chinese New Year! We listened to Chinese music, ate fortune cookies, and created our own dragon puppets! The dragon template can be found at Crayola's website!

Here are a few of our creations! 

Nice job Art Club!

Kindergarten Pattern Heart Art

I hope that everyone is enjoying their relaxing mid-winter break! Valentine's Day was in full blast at SJV last week and the kindergarten class created beautiful patterned heart-art for their Valentines!

In this project we focused on patterns and creating a watercolor crayon resist on our hearts. For a little added pzazz we added gold details using a paint pen!

Wonderful job Kindergarten!