Excellent Art at Emma L. Miller

Hello from Ms. Saldo!

With the end of October we have wrapped up our Drawing Unit and have begun Painting! Already they are looking amazing! Here's a brief summary of all the drawing projects that students created during Tuesday art classes:

PreK / K

Students in PreK and Kindergarten created a variety of projects focusing on 3 of our Elements of Art: Lines, Shapes, and Texture.

Crazy Hair: first students learned about all kinds of styles of Lines: straight, wavy, zigzag, dotted, dashed, etc. They then used the variety of lines to create people with crazy hairstyles and silly faces.

Ostriches: I brought in my fuzzy stuffed animal friend Ollie Olivander the 3rd, and students learned how to use lines to create a texture! Using melted together fun crayons, we created some fuzzy ostriches and visual texture.

The Zoo: in a multi-step project students learned to draw simple shapes (Circle, Triangle, Square, Rectangle, Oval) and then how to use those shapes to create animals for a zoo! Once drawn, the animals are colored in an cut out, and at the end the animals will be assembled into a zoo on a big piece of paper.

1 - 4

Students in grades 1-4 learned about and created a variety of Optical Illusions. Experimented with how simple lines can be used to create some very fun visual effects. Each class students learned to draw a different illusion using simple elements of art (Line, Shape, Color, Value) for a total of 7 different illusions!

5 - 8

Students in grades 5 through 8 learned about drawing with Perspective. Students used the concept of vanishing points and orthogonal/converging lines to create the illusion of depth in their drawings. All students began with a top-down view of a city and learned to draw buildings in 1-point perspective. All buildings, roads, windows, and additional details should follow the rules of perspective and are created using a ruler. Then students had options of other 1-point perspective drawings: a street-view of a city or an art gallery. If students felt up for an additional challenge another option was a 2-point perspective drawing of a room.