radial symmetry....

color mixing and radial symmetry.....

3rd grade artists are continuing to explore the elements and principles of art in their foundational exploration year...we are creating spinning tops out of used CD's that will demonstrate our understandings of radial symmetry. Artists are required to include the three primary colors in somewhere in their design to illustrate how they will combine to create the secondary set.....stay tuned!

senufo cloth = line = gallery

a moment....

Today, while I was teaching, I had one of those moments....one of my students was happily painting away at her Senufo cloth, looked up at me, smiled the BIGGEST smile, and said " I feel like a grown-up artist!". I told her the cool part was that she already IS one.....

senufo cloth = line

Fourth and Fifth grade students are spending the year exploring the art of cultures all over the globe. We are hoping to learn about and understand the similarities and differences of human creative expression no matter where one lives. All cultures 'make marks', some for the same reasons we do, others to serve different purposes. We have begun our journey on the west coast of Africa, in the Cote d' Ivoire, exploring the element of line, and creating cloth paintings inspired by the Senufo people

third grade line sampler....

Third grade students are working on their own version of line exploration, by creating samplers, adding personal embellishments, and color......

We are studying line.......