5th Grade Goes Renaissance!

5th Grade Artists traveled back in time to the 1300s and the birth of the Italian Renaissance! The learned about the significance of the Italian Renaissance. This is the time that people started to question the universe and their place in it. World exploration took place during this time. Books were printed and available to the masses. Architechs and mathmaticians studied the ancient Greek and Roman societies. Medical doctors studied the human body, creating the first anatomy textbook. Artists started glorifying the human body. Michaelangelo created the David during the Renaissance. Artists started painting things the way that the human eye sees them, adding shadow and depth to art. Perspective showed distance in artwork. 5th grade artists explored one-point perspective drawings. They first practiced in sketchpads, drawing shapes and objects in one-point perspective. Everything must go towards the vanishing point. They also practiced drawing a tiled floor in one point perspective. Once they were comfortable, they were able to start on their final art piece. The rules for this piece were...each artwork must have something tiled, 3 or more objects in one-point perspective, and imagination. They added color with prismacolor colored pencils. Boy are these pieces full of creativity!

5th Grade Transformations

5th Grade Artists learned about transformations...transitions or slides, rotations or turns, and reflections or flips. They started this project by creating an abstract design on a 6" square. They used a view finder to isolate thir most interesting view of their design. They were encouraged to look for a view that had various types of lines and showed balance. They then cut out that view. Ok...here we go...they traced 8 copies of that very interesting view and then traced 8 reflections of that view. So, total, 16 pieces on 2" squares. Now that's alot of work and we are just getting started. After they created their 16 pieces, they spent some time arranging them to create a pattern/design. The used transitions, rotations, and reflections to create this design. They glued them down on a separate piece of paper.

Now for the color. 5th grade artists studied the color wheel and learned about color schemes. They chose a color scheme and then mixed the colors that they needed using just the primary colors, black and white. The color schemes that they could choose from are monochromatic, analogous, warm or cool, complimentary, and triadic. They then painted their design, painting each piece the same, to create a unified artwork. Here are some works in progress!

Here are some finished products! These are amazing!

5th Grade Texas Tangles

5th Grade Artists used Zentangles to create Texas themed art for the Houston Rodeo. 5th Grade Artists drew an image of something that represents Texas. They only drew the outline...and for those of you that don't know, this is often more difficult than drawing the whole thing. They divided their image into sections and filled each section with a different zentangle. They used sharpies for this, so...no mistakes! After the Texas Tangles were finished, they used a wet-in-wet watercolor technique to fill in the space around their drawing with either cool or warm colors. These turned out to be one of their favorite projects! And such variety...space shuttles, armadillos, prickly pear cacti, longhorns, oil pumps, bluebonnets, and much more! The following 5 artworks have been selected to represent Mossman at the District Rodeo Art Show.

Zentangle Madness

Alrighty all you Zentangle kiddos, is a great link to learn even more zentangles! This site has many tangles that we did not learn in class. Check it out and bring in your Zentangles to show me! http://tanglepatterns.com/tag/zentangle

5th Grade Watercolor Pumpkins

5th Grade Artists created these stunning pumpkin pieces while learning about shapes. They first looked at a pumpkin, noticing the shape and how the ribs of the pumpkin started at the stem and ended on the bottom. The ribs created the rounded look of the pumpkin. After drawing the pumpkin, 5th grade artists then created a foreground of grass. They then traced over all lines with glue. When the glue dried, they used the wet-in-wet watercolor technique, painting the pumpkin with warm colors and the background and foreground with cool colors. When the paint dried, they then traced all glue lines with sharpie and outlined the organic shapes that resulted from the watercolor technique. Beautiful!

5th Grade Still Life with a Twist

5th Grade Artists have been focusing on the art elements of line and shape. We viewed and discussed several still life paintings and then created our own. Kiddos created contour lines drawings of art supplies that were found in our art room. Each object overlapped with another. The twist is that we made our objects transparent, showing the many organic shapes that overlapping objects create. 5th Grade Artists then filled in each new shape with line and pattern. To add color, they painted their still life pieces using metallic watercolors. Enjoy!