2013 Art Festival: Pop Op Art

We celebrated the Prior Lake-Savage Elementary artists on May 6, 2013 showcasing Pop & Op art.

Check out this article in the Prior Lake American!

Thank you to the amazing artists!

Kindergarten: Andy Warhol Flowers

1st Grade: Jasper Johns Alphabets

2nd Grade: Andy Warhol Prints

3rd Grade: Robert Indiana LOVE

4th Grade: Bridget Riley Op Art

5th Grade: Wayne Thiebaud Cakes

A spin on paper weaving!

Paper weaving with 1st and 2nd grade students can get boring...red, blue, red, blue gets old after 10 years.  So, I was looking for a new way to teach the concept!
Thanks to Pinterest, I found www.artsmudge.com and this lesson.

We started by painting 2 12x12 white papers, one with warm colors, one with cool colors in watercolor.
The following week, we cut one of the papers into strips, and weaved in between the other.  We love the results!

Marble Painted Flowers

A lesson I haven't done in ~5 years, I decided to do a little marble painting.
As fun as the kids had, and as well as the final projects turned out, it's a lot of mess and I'm not sure I'll do it again for another 5 years!

Getting paints ready: 3 shades of red, medium pink, and light pink

Putting painted marble into box on paper



Start shakin'!



Looks like fun!

After we painted, we decided to cut them into pieces for spring flowers.  They turned out amazing!

Mandalas: Concentric Circles

I talk about concentric circles with my 2nd grade students every fall.  We talk about how concentric circles are many circles with the same center, and I show them images of mandalas from all over the world.  I also tell them that they are sacred and tell the story of a special place of the artist. 
Next, they start designing their own mandala, using ice cream lids as the outer circle, and other round containers to make more circles.  Students also pick up quickly that all of the mandalas are cymmetrical (the same on both sides.)  They also use templates and other objects in the Art room to add geometric shapes (the ones with names: circle, square, triangle, etc.)
Here are some amazing artists: