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Fourth Grade Yorkville Visual Arts Outcomes:
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Students created a monochromatic color scheme here.
Students had fun showing value blending oil pastels to make a space scene inspired by American artist Peter Max. Of course the splatter paint was the best!They were on display in our art closet's Groovy Galaxy for the art show.
American Artist Grandma Moses the fourth graders enjoyed learning about. She was known for her rural landscapes in both embroidery and paint. The fourth graders did a sewing sample on burlap practicing the running stitch, satin stitch, the French knot and how to sew on a button.
Picasso Portraits
Pablo Picasso’s famous portrait, “Woman in a Mirror”, shows a woman’s face from two different perspectives, simultaneously. Our fourth grade artists achieved the same effect by drawing a profile portrait, and then adding another half of the face, to create a frontal portrait as well.
Thank you, Forest Preserve for letting us borrow the lovely songbirds! Fourth graders had fun sketching from nature like Audubon did and adding visual texture!
Wayne Thiebaud Inspired Gumball Machines
Students used watercolors to create colorful gumball machines showing shading and highlights.
After learning a bit about American architect Frank Llyod Wright, students created a prairie style window using colored Sharpie markers (thank you for those parents who donated some at the beginning of the year though black Sharpies were the only requirement-the students dig them!) on acetate. We were inspired by something in nature and incorporated geometric shapes. You can surely tell which room is the art room from outside with these cool windows!
American artist Georgia O'Keefe inspired chalk pastel abstracts in progress. Students used artificial flowers to draw a zoomed in work. Some of the students used pinecones (Thank you, Mrs. Le!!! for the more manly option for our budding artists).
The first American artists were Native Americans of course. Thanks to the ISU teacher loan program, all the fourth graders got to touch and read about Native American pottery, sand painting, jewelry, weaving and various artifacts. We appreciated the amount of effort each art form took and tried to predict what materials they used in their creation. We will apply this knowledge to learning how to make a coil pot.