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!

2nd Grade Charlie Harper Inspired Cardinals

Snow has hopefully come to an end during this long winter in WNY! During the snowier months, 2nd graders created winter scenes inspired by illustrator Charlie Harper. Harper is well known for his illustrations of birds, especially Cardinals! 

Students loved the bright and simplistic shapes and lines of Harper's birds. Using white paint and construction paper, 2nd graders created their own Cardinals in a snowy winter landscape! 

Check out these cute Cardinals!

 

Awesome job, 2nd Grade!!!

PreK Flower Collage

To welcome in Spring (hopefully soon) students in PreK studied flowers. After reading "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle and identifying the different parts of a flower, students created their own still life collage using paint, paper, markers, crayons, and glitter!

For our flowers, PreK students magically mixed two of our primary colors (red & blue) to make our own purple paint! We used sponge shapes to create our flowers!

Students also decorated their vases using crayons to create various patterns. Check out these beautiful still life collages:

 

 Beautiful job PreK!

Art Club Happenings: Edible Color Wheels

Art Club students in 3rd-5th Grade learned about color theory with a delicious twist! We created our own color wheels by mixing the three primary colors (red, yellow, and blue) to make secondary colors (orange, green, and purple)! 

The twist: instead of using paints, students used icing and food color dyes as their art medium! We decorated cookies to assemble our final color wheels!

Students loved mixing colors in a creative and unique way... almost as much as they loved eating the final product!

Check out some of the pictures:

Learning is fun... and yummy!

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!

Kindergarten Wayne Thiebaud Gumball Machines

Kindergarteners learned about the yummy art of Wayne Thiebaud. They loved viewing and discussing his paintings of cakes, ice cream, lollipops, and gumball machines!

Students enthusiastically created these 3D gumball machines in Art! The gumballs are actually pom poms! Check them out:
 

 

Awesome job!

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!

Tie Dye Art Club

This past two weeks in Art Club students worked on creating their own Tie Dye t-shirts! Students were able to twist, band, and dye their t-shirts in different ways to create colorful and groovy shirts!

For many students this was their first experience tie dying! They did a fantastic job! Check out these pictures of the creation process:

Pictures of the products will be available soon!