Quarter 1 Week 10

Thank you for everyone who supported the Blaze Pizza VAPA fundraiser!

We are running low on baby wipes. In art, we use wipes to clean up messes. If you would like to donate, please drop off the wipes at room 703. Or send them to the school office labeled “For Art”. Thank you in advance for your donation!

TK: Henri Matisse Inspired Cut-outs

Artist Study: Henri Matisse

Elements of art: shape and line

Media and materials: Scrap paper, scissors, and glue

Kinder: Check out these completed bats!

Mr. Slatten’s class Baby Dino art (Session 2)

Baby Dino projects are all done!

4th grade: Close up Citrus (Session 2)

We are all finished! These turned out beautiful!

5th Grade: Tim Burton Inspired Self Portraits (session 1)

Artist Study: Tim Burton

Element of art: Shape and LIne

Principles of Design: Value and Proportion

Media and Materials: Grey toned paper, White China Markers, Black colored pencil, pencils, and erasers.

3rd grade, Mrs. Simmons’ class, and Miss Foley’s class: 3D Gummy Bear

Elements of art: Form and value

Media and materials: Chalk pastel, erasers, and colored construction paper

Quarter 1 Week 9

TK: Victor Vaseraly Shape art

Element of art: Shape

Artist Study: Victor Vasarely

Media and Materials: Precut squares and circles (large, medium, and small and glue

Kindergarten: Primary Colored Bats

Elements of art: color (primary colors) and shape

Media and Materials: construction paper (red, yellow, blue, white, and black), black oil pastels, scissors, and glue.

2nd Grade and Ms. Foley’s class: Watercolor Ammonite (session 1)

Elements of art: Line and color

Principle of Design: Contrast

Art process: Adding salt to watercolor paint

Technique: Wet-on-wet watercolor painting

Media and Materials: watercolor paint, white cardstock, black construction paper, salt, and white oil pastels

1st Grade and Mr. Slatten’s class: Dino baby (Warm and cool colors) Session 1

Element of art: color (warm and cools colors)

Text Connection: Dino Duckling by Alison Murray

Media and Materials: White cardstock, black construction paper watercolor paint, oil pastels, scissors, and glue.

Mrs. Simmons’ class: Salt and Watercolor Koi session 2

Check out these Koi fish. The students enjoyed using a “dropper” as their paint brush.

Quarter 1 Week 8

I hope everyone enjoyed a lovely 3 day weekend last week.

With the last quarter winding down, we have used a lot of baby wipes for clean up. Please consider donating a few packages of baby wipes to support our artists. Thank you in advance.

TK: Paul Klee inspired Cats

Artist study: Paul Klee, Cat and Bird

Element of art: Space, line, and shape

Media and Materials: Grey construction paper, black crayon, and Crayola Color Sticks

4th Grade: Close up Citrus Paintings (session 1)

Artist Study: Dennis Wojtkiewicz

Elements of art: Color and Space

Media and Materials: White construction paper, tempera paint, and black oil pastel.

5th Grade: Celtic Knots (session 2)

Check out these completed projects!

3rd Grade: Mexican Mirrors (session 2)

The mirrors are complete and gorgeous!

Mrs. Gersten’s class and Ms. Foley’s class made animated foldables. Mrs. Gersten’s class made monsters and Ms. Foley’s class made fish. They had so much fun with this project!

Element of Art: Line

Principle of Design: Movement

Media and Materials: Crayons/Crayola Colorsticks, prefolded paper, and black marker

Mrs. Simmons’ class: Watercolor and Salt Koi Fish (Session 1)

Element of art: Texture and Line

Principle of Design: Movement

Media and Materials: Salt, Watercolor, water, droppers, and black paper.

VAPA Fundraiser event!

Skip cooking dinner, and come to Blaze Pizza. A portion of the proceeds will go towards the Wolf Canyon Music and Art Program.

When: Wednesday, September 7th and Thursday, September 8th 2:00-8:00 PM

Where: Blaze Pizza (Otay Ranch Mall)

Thank you for always supporting art and music!

Quarter 1 Week 7

Kindergarten and TK: The Dot (session 2)

This art is ready to be hung. I am excited to see this collaborative mural come together!

2nd Grade and Ms. Foley’s class: Koinobori flag art (session 2)

This week the students sprayed their art with water in a spray bottle. They folded the paper in half and created a print of their koi fish.

6th Grade: Salt and watercolor Koi Fish (session 1)

Element of art: color (analogous color)

Principles of Design: Movement

Media and Materials: Water color paint, dropper, salt, white glue, and black construction paper.

1st grade had art with a guest teacher (substitute)

Mrs. Gersten’s class: Primary color bats

Element of art: Color

Media and Materials: blue, yellow, red, white, and black construction paper, glue, scissors, and black marker.

Mrs. Simmons’ class: Celtic Knots (session 2)

Check out these completed art pieces!