Students from all over the district presented their artwork at the annual K-12 Fine Arts Festival held at Ewell elementary this year. I was very proud to hand pick several amazing artists from Switzer to represent our school. It was great to see students and families supporting the arts on opening night and other times throughout the week. Here are some photos of Switzer students next to their creations.
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The fifth graders had an awesome time using paper mache to cover a pizza box. After the paper mache dried, we were able to draw and paint directly on the cover of the box. It made a nice surface just like a professional artist's canvas. Our subject matter was enlarged flowers, after we learned about the famous american artist, Georgia O'Keefe. Students were able to blend colors to make tints and shades to paint inside their flower and make it look realistic. A very special thank you goes out to Jimmy at Little Ceasar's Pizza located right across from Switzer. He kindly donated all of the pizza boxes for the fifth graders to use and even included a coupon for free crazy bread for each student if they finished their painting. What an incentive! Six students were chosen to have their painting displayed in the District Art Show and they received a coupon for a free pizza! Visit Jimmy at Little Ceasar's for some yummy pizza and tell him thanks for supporting the arts at Switzer Elementary! It is located at: 53101 Shelby Rd. Shelby Twp., MI 48316 248-656-0200 http://www.littlecaesars.com/ Here are some pictures of us working on our Artwork: Here are some of our finished pieces:
The fourth graders also learned about artist, Keith Haring just like the sixth graders. After learning about Keith Haring, we created some gesture drawings in our sketchbook of people in action poses. The following week we used our drawings to create a positive and negative cut paper design of people in action in a simple style showing movement, just like Keith Haring.
The sixth graders learned about famous american artist, Keith Haring, before creating these fun cartoon paintings in his style. They had to take one of his famous drawings and change it two more times to create a triptych painting using bright colors and simple shapes. The sixth graders used lines and shapes just like Keith Haring to create movement in their artwork. If you would like to learn more about Keith Haring and his artwork you can visit this fun webpage: www.haringkids.com
In honor of March is Reading month, second graders created these cool pianos with a colorful patterned background. We used the contrasting colors of black and white to create our wavy pianos and make them stand out from the background.
The third graders worked on warm and cool hearts in the months of february and march. Students used a variety of lines inside and outside a heart shape. After the lines were outlined in black paint, students were able to paint the various shapes in with warm or cool colors so that the heart would stand out from the background.
THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR ART TO REMEMBER ORDERS!! The funds from Art to Remember help buy new art supplies for the next school year such as specialty paints & paper and a lot of clay for every student at Switzer to use. CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR ART TO REMEMBER PROJECTS BELOW!! Kindergarten Art: Warm Colored Sun Faces, Cool Colored Backgrounds First Grade Art: Fish Paintings based on the book, "Hooray for Fish" by Lucy Cousins Second Grade Art: Funny Frog Paintings Third Grade Art: Self Portrait Cartoons Fourth Grade Art: Colorful Chameleons Fifth Grade Art: Optical Illusions Sixth Grade Art: Student's Choice (Animal, Place, Person, or Object)
The Fourth Graders used a variety of art media to create these hearts after learning about famous American artist, Jim Dine. The first layer is a metal tooled heart. That layer was stapled to a black heart frame that was colored with special crayons. The background is a painting showing a variety of techniques such as splatter painting, sponge painting, and stencil painting. The last step was to glue all the parts together with a colored frame to create an interesting composition.
To make these hearts, the First Graders started by drawing one small heart in the middle of the paper. Then they continued to draw heart shapes repeatedly, getting larger and larger, until no more hearts could fit on the page. Our last two steps were to color a pattern within the hearts using crayons and gluing our paper to a coordinating frame.
The Sixth Graders created these symmetrical hearts with cut paper to show positive and negative space. Students were able to choose their own color of paper to create the heart and also drew original designs using mostly organic shapes.
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