Art Club Happenings: Ugly Dolls

The 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Art Club practiced their sewing skills when they created Ugly Doll inspired felt animal creatures. These creatures were made with felt, fabric markers, a needle, and thread. Students enjoyed the process as much as they liked the funny creations by their peers!

Check out the fun and silly creations:

 

Fun job!

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!

Kindergarten Peace Doves

The Kindergarten learned about Pablo Picasso in a project completed towards the beginning of the year relating to the International Day of Peace. During this project students also learned about how doves can be symbols of peace.

For our project students created a watercolor crayon resist for their backgrounds. Students created their doves while reinforcing tracing and cutting skills.

Check out their great art:

6th Grade Artist Research Projects

6th Grade students just completed a fun Artist Research project! This project was split into two separate projects: research done in class and a supplementary assignment done at home inspired by their artist!

A variety of artists were available for students to randomly draw out of a hat. Each student had to read about their artist and record facts about his or her life, art, and legacy. From the information, students created a Facebook-styled "ArtBook" page for their artist.

For their supplementary assignment students were able to choose from a variety of different projects that were inspired by their artist. From role playing or creating an artist puppet and acting like their artist to creating a reproduction of a painting, students had a variety options to choose from. Students had a great time sharing their projects and teaching each other what they learned.

Students enjoyed reproducing art in different ways.
Wearable Art:
-A splatter painted sweatshirt inspired by Jackson Pollock.
-A recreated Picasso painting on a t-shirt.

Edible Art:
-A Warhol printed Mickey Mouse on a cake.
-Monet inspired water lily cupcakes.

Recreated Art:
-Starry Night done in Microsoft Word.
-The Mona Lisa created on a Pixie Program.
-An illustrated pencil drawing of a Michelangelo painting.
-A dot filled Seurat painting.

We also had one student present his project as Marc Chagall! What a treat!

Here are some pictures of our projects:

Fantastic job, 6th grade!!

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!