Community Circle Painting

 

Community Circle Painting

For our Art and music Week Extravaganza community project students and their families created "Circle Paintings". It was so fun seeing parents painting with their kids! And the results were beautiful!

So what is Circle Painting? It’s a creative process in which a group of people come together and create a collaborative painting. The process is simple, but the result is quite amazing! To make one you and your friends draw lines and shapes and build on each other’s.

1. Why Circles?
The circle is a universal symbol everyone can relate to. Simple yet profound, it symbolizes wholeness, enlightenment, and the universe in all cultures. For us, the circle means connect, create, and celebrate. What does the circle mean to you?

2. How did Circle Painting get started?
Hiep Nguyen created the first Circle Painting when he returned to his native country Vietnam in 1999. Driven by his desire to connect with neighborhood children in the mountain town of Dalat,  Hiep invited them to paint circles with him in his studio. To his surprise,  the children kept coming back for more, sometimes even with their friends and families. This experience inspired Hiep to continue exploring the circle theme as a way to create and connect with others.

Calder Contour Portraits

The 5th Graders started the year by doing a unit on contour line. We used Alexander Calder's wire work as our inspriation to take our line "off " the page to create wire self-portraits. We started by doing continuous blind contour drawings of our friends to understand how with wire, everything had to be connected. It was amazing to see the student's personality come through in a media most of them had never used before.

Chihuly Inspired Community Project

This year during Hosmer's Art and Music Extravaganza week we are taking our "green" initiative to a new level. Inspired by the glasswork of Artist Dale Chihuly, students are using disgarded plasitic water bottles and turing them into beautiful gardens of flowers. These gardens are on large sheets of plexiglass to be hung in the windows of our connector hallway. Together there will be 14 panels that measure 2'x3'. Here is a peek at the process...will post final project when finished.

Final Project pics...

 

Fall Tree Silouettes

As we warmed up to watercolors in the beginning of the year, we do a quick "wet on wet" watercolor technique sky and talking about different times of day. Then students use what they know about line and shape to create a silouette compostion. This year it was trees, during our fall color unit.

 

 

Warm and Cool Leaves

All elementary art teachers seem to have some sort of "fall leaf project". In this project, students not only studied organic shapes and texture, but also warm verses cool colors.

 

 

Wayne Thiebaud, Cakes

Yummy, Yummy Cakes!

4th Graders studied the artist Wayne Thiebaud. They then made a cake of thier own using oil pastels as thier medium. They were told to layer HEAVILY to get the painterly effect, mix colors and

be creative! Students were also introduced to shading cyclindars to make thier cakes look round. Don't the look good enough to eat?!

 

 

Jim Dine, Hearts

This project started as a study of color mixing and making painted paper for our Eric Carle unit. But with Valentine's day right around the corner and soooo many beautiful painted papers we looked at the painted hearts by Jim Dine and then created our own. The results were gorgous and

each one unique!

 

 

This year's Artist Discovery Series Artist was Claude Monet. Grades Prek-5th studied this famous artist and the history of Impressionism.  They then created thier own impression of Monet.