Square 1 Art* Fourth Grade:Sea Life Ecosystems

Fourth graders begin their first art projects.

Students were introduced to the artwork of Hawaiian artists Christian Lassen. The hyper realism paintings that showed under water scenes in very bright colors were used as the inspiration for their square one art. Students learned that artists have messages behind their artwork. Lassen’s artwork tries to raise environmental awareness and teach us not to pollute our oceans so they can continue to be bright and beautiful.

Students drew in the sketchbooks. The practiced creating a ‘sense of space’ in their drawings. They focused on size, placement and overlapping. Students used pencil, then went over their drawings with sharpie. Students used crayons to color everything but the background. After finishing coloring the students used a wash of paint to add color to the background.

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Square 1 Art* Third Grade: Mr Seahorse Collage

Third grade students begin their first art project. Students first learned about primary, secondary and intermediate colors. Students used bubble wrap to mix yellow and red paint directly on their papers. This made orange and all the intermediate colors in between like yellow-orange and red-orange.

Next students paper the background, the ocean. Mixing blue and white on their papers and using plastic forks to make wave lines.

Students practiced in their sketchbooks and then drew seahorses on the back of their bubble wrap painted papers and cut them out to glue on the ocean background. Then sharpie markers were used to add implied lines of texture on the seahorses. Scraps of the bubble wrap paper were used to make sand and then paint was used for seaweed and coral.

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Square 1 Art* Second Grade: Fish Collages

Students first painted the background for their fish collages. Blue and white paint were mixed directly on their papers. Adding white to a color makes a tint. Students mixed the paint on their paper to look like the ocean and used a plastic fork to make wave lines in the wet paint

To create their fish, students discovered how they could use shapes to make their fantasy fish. Students drew in pencil, went over them in sharpie and colored them in with crayons. The fish were cut out and glued to the water background. Then extra details were added… sand, seaweed and coral.

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Square 1 Art* First Grade: Collage Garden Scenes

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First Grade: Collage Garden Scenes

First grade students began with the Art Hunt on day one and then watched the animated video of Eric Carle’s book ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’

            (find out more about these two activities in THIS post)

Students first painted the background for their garden scenes. Blue and white paint were mixed directly on their papers. Adding white to a color makes a tint. Students mixed the paint on their paper to look like a sky and clouds.

The next art class, students paint ‘art papers’ to be used for the grass and flowers for the garden collages Yellow, Red, Purple and Green construction papers were painted, letting some of the paper show through, then plastic forks were run through the still wet paint. Students also practiced drawing flowers.

Over the course of the last two art classes students cut stems and leaves from the green, flowers from the others, used some green paint to add grass, extra ‘art papers’ to add a butterfly, bee or lady bug and then sharpie markers for extra detail.

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