Fifth Grade Perspective Drawing and Contour Line Drawings

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Fifth grade students spent the last few weeks learning about contour line drawings, value studies, perspective drawings using parallel lines, converging lines and vanishing points.

Artist Kevin Reese is at Summit Street!

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Artist in Residence, Kevin Reese is working with students Monday and Tuesday this week at Summit Street School. Every student will have the opportunity to work with Kevin to create group mobiles for their classrooms. In 45 minutes they learned about Alexander Calder, the history of the mobile and the fundamentals of mobile making. The excite in the classroom is palpable as the students watch their individual creations come together to form a larger group piece of art work through creativity, imagination and collaboration!

Clay Fruit Banks by Fleming 4th graders

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Students created clay fruit "penny" banks in art. The process involved the formation of two pinch pots that when welded together formed a hollow form that could be manipulated into an apple, peach or pear. They had already used real fruit to do observational drawings in previous weeks. After adding details like leaves and stems a small slot was added for pennies. The term "Break the Bank" referred to the fact that the bank had to be broken to get into it.  After they were fired the fruit banks were then painted with acrylic paint to give a realistic effect. Students chose their palette of colors by the "Fruit Stand" they sat at. This gave them the corresponding colors of paint to the real fruit and photos of fruit at their table.

Fleming Fourth Grade Leaf Art

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Fourth grader artist used leaves as a mean of creating original designs in art. Students selected leaves that prompted them to think of things that could incorporate that shape. With a little bit of cartooning the results were delightfully creative!

Joan Miro Inspired Art Summit Street Grades 2 & 3

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Second and third grades learned about the life and artwork of Spanish artist Joan Miro, a Surrealist Artist. They learned that Miro was fascinated with the night sky and many of his works are called Constellation. They created Miro inspired abstract shapes and then used similar lines and his color palette to create their drawings. The final step was to add the element of texture by placing their drawing on top of a piece of burlap and rubbing over it with an earth toned crayon. 

Summit Street Pumpkin Art K-3

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Students in Kindergarten through third grade have been studying pumpkins over the last weeks and in the process have learned some new art skills. Second and third grade created a Batik pumpkin and also learned about the textile art form known as batik and its origins. We discussed where Indonesia is and looked at real batiks form that region of the world. we also looked at Google Earth to see how far away Vermont is from this tropical location. The process for their art required them to make a drawing which would be outlined in chalk. These lines would remind students to not color over these parts with oil pastels. They then colored everything in very heavily with the oil pastels. Now the fun began as students painted over their entire drawing with black India ink. we waited a few minutes for the ink to soak into the non oil pastel areas of their paper and then washed the ink off in the sink. The kids loved this big reveal and it made for a very unique effect.

Kindergarten and first grade loved making Midnight Pumpkins. they learned how to draw pumpkins and then to paint them they were only given the primary colors, red, blue and yellow. They had to mix colors to make orange and green so the room was full of aha moments as they created their own colors for the first time!

After they dried the students then cut out their pumpkins and leaves and glued them to black backgrounds. They then added white highlights to the pumpkins and added vines, moons and stars.