Fall Trees- Foil Painting!

 The kindergarten at CES painted these beautiful trees using a common household item...FOIL!

Each student received a piece of foil and crumpled it into a ball. Then, they dipped the foil in paint and began painting their fall leaves.

The foil gave the painting great texture and made the leaves look "crunchy".

Keep Creating!

-Mrs. Hartford

Van Gogh Flower Vases

Kindergarten learned about the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. We looked at his paintings and noticed how you could see his brushstrokes and it looks like his paintings are filled with lines.

We read the book "Van Gogh and the Sunflowers" by Laurence Anholt and we watched Mati and Dada- Vincent Van Gogh (YouTube).

We looked at many Van Gogh paintings and then started on our own sunflower creations!

The students decorated their vases and drew a table on their background paper. 

They then began adding little tissue paper balls to make 3D sunflowers!

These are the projects from my begindergarten class.

They are wonderful!

Op Art

4th and 5th grade learned about Op Art (optical illusion art). We learned that it messes with your eyes and can make things look three-dimensional or in motion that really are not.

The students created their own op art drawings, outlined them with Sharpie, and then shaded them with colored pencils. They learned how to add shadings of different values to help make their work look three dimensional.

When choosing colors to use, the students learned about Complementary colors and shaded each "tube" with complementary colors (colors that are opposite on the color wheel).

The students had a lot of fun with this project and their results are amazing!