Kindergarten students recently completed their line drawings by adding washes of color.
Students first spent a session creating many line drawings in ink using various types of repeated lines.
Using the color wheel, everyone followed a pattern with the employment of their watercolor paint.
Students were fully engaged in the creative process.
This was a great project to introduce the students to many new art concepts and mediums.
Here are some examples of the students’ work:
Sixth grade students recently completed their painting projects that are now on display at the Art Junction in New Haven.
Students added color to their paintings after adding collage elements to their work.
Everyone enjoyed the spray painting elements that were added to their images.
Each group added final shapes of color to their images to bring their paintings to a conclusion.
Students worked as a team to add many layers of information to their mixed media paintings.
Here are some examples of their work.
I hope you will take time to stop by the Art Junction to view their art exhibition!
6th grade students added a collage element to their painting project recently.
Students added cut-up elements of a graphic of their names to their paintings.
Everyone worked together as they added the designs to their painting as a third layer.
Students learned to use new materials as they fixed their graphics to the painting with matte medium.
This week’s studio session really pushed students to explore new elements of art in exciting ways not explored before.
Come view the paintings of Richmond School’s 6th grade visual art students, digital photography of the 5th grade students, and cooperative sculpture by the 4th grade students under the direction of artist/teacher Kevin Casto. 6th grade students explored the theme of popular culture with mixed media on 16 x 20” canvases. 5th grade students explored their environment through digital photography, and 4th grade students created a cooperative sculpture based on the art of Jean Dubuffet. PLEASE SUPPORT the emerging art talents of these young artists by attending their exhibition this spring as they visually express themselves and the greater community around them.
The students’ paintings and photographs will be on sale during the exhibit. All proceeds from the sale of their artwork will be placed in the art fund for the Elementary Art Program. We hope you will participate! Their artwork would be a great addition to your home, business or organization!
The Art Junction is located at 2634 Prairie Street New Haven, OH next to the New Haven United Methodist Church.
The Art Junction is a community-based art education program designed to bring gallery space, local art exhibitions, lessons and creative opportunities to the Willard area for adults, teens, seniors, and children to learn to create together a better community! For more information on this or future programs at the Art Junction contact Kevin Casto M.A., Director, at 419-935-3404, Email theartjuction@yahoo.com or visit our blog http://theartjunctionwillardohio.wordpress.com
Fifth grade students have been exploring creating a collage out of their photographs.
Fifth graders had many options to choose from as they worked to create a collage from many layers of one image.
Photographs were printed in several solid colors and students cut them up and put the pictures together to create one new image.
Some students added color to their images to add another dimension to their project.
This was a great project to stimulate the students’ creativity and to open their horizons to new ways of thinking about images.
Fourth grade students have been exploring the art and sculptures of Jean Dubuffet.
Jean Dubuffet (31 July 1901 – 12 May 1985) was a French painter and sculptor. He is perhaps best known for founding the art movement Art Brut, and for the collection of works—Collection de l’art brut—that this movement spawned. Dubuffet enjoyed a prolific art career, both in France and in America, and was featured in many exhibitions throughout his lifetime. From 1962 he produced a series of works in which he limited himself to the colors red, white, black, and blue. Towards the end of the 1960s he turned increasingly to sculpture, producing works in polystyrene which he then painted with vinyl paint.
Students began working in groups. Each group was responsible for a different part of the sculpture.
The fourth graders planned their part of the sculpture and began the process of creating their sculptural element.
Each group (and there are twelve groups in all) is making a different part of the sculptural figure.
Everyone worked with recycled materials and glue as the forth grades worked together to create the sculpture.
It’s exciting to see the students work together and prepare to paint in our next studio session.
Artmanews! 