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Kandinsky
 
Fifth Grade Classes
 
Fifth grade students have started an abstract watercolor painting.  Watercolor techniques, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry and dry-on-dry, are being learned.  Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky's paintings are being studied and discussed for inspiration.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fifth Grade Classes

 

Fifth grade students have been working on impressionistic dogs,  focusing on the face, particularly the eyes and nose.  Among the artists being discussed is Claude Monet.  Students are working in oil patels and tempera paint for a mixed media project on 12"X18" paper.  Shading and highlights are being reviewed.  These concepts have been a focus throughout this year.



 

 

 

Fifth Grade Classes

Fifth grade students have been working on an abstract bug picture using cropping L's to draw only a part of a bug. American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe is the artist we are using for inspiration as she drew only a part of a flower. Fifth grade students are learning about scale, proportion and ratio in enlarging the bug picture they are using in their drawing. Students when finished with the drawing will color and shade in their bug pictures using oil pastels, or cray-pas.

 
 
 
 

 
 
Fifth grade classes are studying three dimensional forms.  We will be studying M.C. Escher.  We will take our drawings and work on still life prints in a process similar to Escher's woodcuts. 
 
 
 
Sahpes & Forms
 
 
 
 
 

M.C. Escher, Ascending and Descending, lithograph, 13.189 x 11.22”, Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece. All M.C. Escher works (c) The M.C. Escher Company B.V. - Baarn - the NETHERLANDS


M.C. Escher, Reptiles, lithograph, 13.15 x 15.157”, Herakleidon Museum, Athens, Greece. All M.C. Escher works (c) The M.C. Escher Company B.V. - Baarn - the NETHERLANDS

Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) has earned worldwide acclaim as a master printmaker, draftsman, book illustrator, and muralist. Though never having studied extensively in mathematics, the mind-bending techniques and impossible realities depicted in M.C. Escher’s works prove him a brilliant mathematician. Much of Escher’s work is intuitive; without focusing on labels, Escher created what came to him instinctively.

M.C. Escher  is known for his woodcuts, lithographs mostly but also did sculptures in various mediums creative processes for each.