Fourth grade art students have been very busy over the last few months. Our Places of Worship project was shared in an earlier post. It captures styles of architecture found in sacred places around the world. we learned about the art of collage and assembling layers of paper to creature unique buildings. Topics of discussion were symmetry in design, craftsmanship in production of the project and color schemes.
We learned about value in art through our Worms in Space project. This drawing introduced the basics of perspective by overlapping, creating shadow by using a light source. The fun began when we added space creatures, craft, planets, and more. The light sources ranged form the man in the moon to flaming candles on birthday cakes in space.
We spent one day making cut paper snowflakes. We spent time looking at snowflake designs and practiced folding and cutting to make original creations.
Our final project of the trimester was clay cottages. The students spent two weeks making tiny little houses complete with windows, doors, additions, garages, pools and balconies. After firing them in the kiln it was time to paint our houses and boy did we. With tiny detail brushes the little white houses were transformed into colorful cottages!
