Third Grade Yorkville Visual Arts Outcomes:
- Students will use the elements of art through their application within multicultural art projects.
- Students will compare and contrast multicultural artworks and create their own artworks, representing these cultures.
-Students will manipulate safely a variety of art making media and tools, demonstrating proper technique and craftsmanship.
- Students will analyze and critique multicultural artwork.
- Students will demonstrate self-expression in response to multicultural artworks.
Students meet once every four days for 45 minutes for art class. Here are some examples of past projects.
Third Grade Life Drawings
Using art mannequins as models, the third graders are creating drawings of the human form in dynamic poses. Ask your child about Food Man (foods we use to remember body proportions...his arch enemy is the stick man). Can you see the horizon line and backgrounds in our projects?
Gyotaku Fish Prints
Gyotaku is the Japanese art of making a print directly from a fish. Third grade student began the project by developing a dynamic background illustration in crayon and marker. Then, using rubber fish, they learned how to apply printing ink with a brayer, and pull a print. The gyotaku prints are on display in the Bristol Bay Library to complete their underwater theme.
Third graders used oil pastel rubbing techniques to create a Chinese landscape complete with using sumi-e ink brushes to make Chinese calligraphy chop blocks. The students made origami butterflies to flutter through the art. Some of their origami didn't exactly look like a butterfly, so we came up with a creative idea of what it looked like and went with it. We had an origami shoe and turtle by accident...good artists know our projects can evolve and we're never to old for a Beautiful Oops!
A chalk pastel African piece. We used a burlap and fruit scented paint for the baskets.
Houses for Hope pins and magnets created by third graders to benefit earthquake victims in Nepal. Thank you for all your generosity in donations for the Red Cross.