Art Travels : Culver City, Los Angeles

What Table Do You Sit At?

This school year I thought it was important to not only label each table by famous artists,

but to also allow students to connect with their table by using various colors.

I journeyed through various magazines and cut out various tints and shades 

of collage pieces to surround each artist.

The room is split up by Primary and Secondary colors

 and feature the following famous artists:

Georgia O'Keeffe - Red Table

 

Louise Nevelson - Purple Table

Katsushika Hokusai - Blue Table

Vincent Van Gogh - Orange Table

Salvador Dali - Yellow Table

Jackson Pollock - Green Table

A Trip Around Mar Vista's Art Room

Here are some areas in the art room that students utilize on a regular basis.

The Elements of Art Section

The elements of art: texture, shape, color, line and form.

Each element contains a visual example that helps define the elements.

This section also holds many of the art supplies that students most commonly use, 

such as oil pastels, pencil sharpener, paint, pencils and erasers.

 

The Art Books Section

This section has many different examples of art history and art technique books 

I have collected in the past. The middle blue book is one of my favorite books of all time.

"Let's Make Some Great ART" by Marion Deuchars.

Inside this book are tons of pages of sketches, quick draws, drawing lessons 

and fun art practices that kids can do for months!

 

Kindergarten Patterns with Oil Pastel

Fourth Grade Value Scale - Updated October 8th

New Mural on La Brea Avenue by muralist KOBRA

Second Grade - "Accidental Symmetry"

My recent lessons with the Second grade class has been teaching them about symmetry

and how symmetry is all over the world around us.

In this lesson, I wanted to show the students how to create "accidental symmetry" using

some very basic yet effective methods of printing.

First students use palette knives to scoop and plop various colors of tempera paint.

It is important to plop the paint near the center of the paper 

so as to prevent too much paint from squeezing out of the edges of the paper

 (you'll see what I mean soon)

 

 

After students have pressed a generous amount of paint into the middle of the paper, 

you will then want to lightly fold the paper horizontally or vertically.

Point the open part of the fold away from your body, then using a flat squeegee or in this 

case, you can use large tongue depressors or popsicle sticks.

Press the popsicle stick firmly onto the paper and push smoothly away from your body.

If you look closely, you will start to see the paint pushing to the edge of the paper.

You can even hold the paper up to a light to see for yourself, or even show 

students what they are doing with the paint.

After roughly 30 seconds to a minute of squeegeeing, peel open the paper...

VOILA! 

SYMMETRY!