Thanks to all who were able to join us in the Brookside Art Studio on November 17th for a wonderful evening of art making together during Family Art Night! It was wonderful to meet all of you and spend some time creating together. A special thank you to all of the parent volunteers and the fabulous Fifth Grade Family Art Night helping team!
It’s been a busy couple of months in the art studio–here are highlights of what each grade has been working on:
Ms. Hayhurst’s Kindergarten:
We’ve been hard at work mixing colors, exploring lines and textures and even trying our hand at pop-up art! One of our mixed medium projects involved looking at the artwork of Paul Klee–particularly his paintings done on a dark background. We noticed the shapes and lines he used and the often light colors that showed up brightly on his dark canvases.
Kindergartners then took a large piece of black paper and used collage and various drawing materials (oil pastel, colored pencil) to create a design that used the whole paper as much as possible. Here are some of the results:
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Second Grade: Ms. Salter/Ms. Hank’s and Mr. Culley’s Classes
Second graders spent some time painting a fall still life from observation in art class. We looked closely at the shapes of the gourds and pumpkins we saw and worked hard to capture their shape and placement in space. Our special concern was noticing when some objects were in front of others creating overlap. In addition, we did our best to mix all of the secondary and tertiary colors we needed for our still life. Some students decided to create exciting patterns in the background as well!
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Third Grade: Ms. Maynard and Ms. Korrell’s Classes
Third graders spend several weeks working on a mixed medium picture that used some texture and pattern to help tell its story. We decided on an outside space–landscape or cityscape, etc that we wanted to depict and thought about ways to use our knowledge of foreground,middleground and background from previous works. After painting in large areas of our paper, we used a smaller brush or even oil pastel, to add texture to our pictures in the form of waves on water, leaves on trees, wind in the air and bumps on concrete or brick. Here are a few of the lovely results:
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Fifth Grade: Ms. Forrest and Ms. Tuatagaloa’s Classes
After looking at some images of Victorian homes in San Francisco, fifth graders did a quick sketch of a house that they wanted to try to build in relief sculpture. They focused on the elements we noticed in Victorians including bay windows, covered porticos, decorative moulding at roof lines and separating each floor of the houses, etc. We then began to build our facades using various types of cardboard to create the 3-dimensional elements of our homes. Some students chose to add glasine plastic to their windows or tissue paper for plants around their homes. We finished our sculptures with acrylic paint to add more color and detail. Here are a few examples:
This is Ms.Piscioneri, one of Ms. Gavam’s longterm substitutes while she’s away taking care of her brand new babies! I’ll be teaching on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Brookside for the following classes: 5th –Ms. Wells/Forrest, Ms. Tuatagaloa, 3rd–Ms. Korrell, Ms. Maynard, 2nd–Ms. Salter/Hanks, Mr. Culley and K–Ms. Hayhurst and I’ll be using Ms. G’s blog to update parents about what’s happening in art for these classes so check here for project updates, photos and news.
* For students in other classes, please see Ms. McKee’s Hidden Valley Art Blog here, as she will be doing similar projects with her Brookside Classes on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Here are highlights of what each grade has been working on so far!
Kindergarten
Kindergarteners in Ms. Hayhurst’s class have been exploring lines in shapes in several projects so far this year. We started by drawing as many kinds of lines as we could think of and then painted even more lines on top! We also looked at artist Paul Klee’s artwork and noticed how he used lines and shapes together and then made a mixed medium piece inspired by what we saw. Below are images of our 3-D line study– as you can see, we found so many ways to make our lines pop out off the paper and connect to one another!
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Second Grade
Among other projects, second graders in Mr. Culley and Ms Salter/Ms Hanks’ Classes looked at Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings of the nighttime in New York City and were inspired by how she made the lights glow in the buildings, contrasted by the dark night sky. We created our own nighttime scenes using wax resist–first we drew with crayon and oil pastel and then painted over with dark paint. Can you tell what places our nighttime paintings represents?
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Third Grade
Third graders in Ms. Korrell and Ms. Maynard’s classes have been learning about how using overlapping images in the foreground, middleground and background of a picture create a sense of 3-dimensional space. After sketching a scene that uses this concept on the covers of their sketchbooks, we began this collage. You can see how students actually layered the paper shapes right on top of each other to create pictures that have depth.
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Fifth Grade
After sketching a radially symmetrical drawing in their sketchbooks, 5th graders in Ms. Tuatagaloa and Ms. Forrest’s classes designed a print block that would repeat interestingly if printed around a central axis. We focused on creating a block that would make some kind of shape in our print as we turned the block. We then printed our blocks four times on a piece of paper turning them once as we printed. This technique created these bold designs that are similar to the Moroccan tiles we were inspired by!
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*Art Going Home
At the end of the school year we look forward to sending home your student’s artwork in a collection that will show exploration of various media, their process, and their progression of skills throughout the year. During the school year, teachers keep the majority of work to be able to assess students’ growth and exhibit the work. One goal of the RVSD Art program is to showcase students art in the community; students get excited and get positive feedback from having their work on display at school and around the community in various exhibits. Student work will occasionally go home for every grade, and each school has and Art Blog showcasing our student’s in-process and finished work which gives and inside look at what’s happening in the art room.
Thank you so much for your support of the YES Foundation!
YES funds credentialed art teachers at every elementary school and Pre-Period 6th Grade Art and Digital Art at White Hill Middle School. YES also funds all art supplies for every art class K-8. The mission of the district art program is to provide children in K-8th Grades with an enriched developmentally appropriate and challenging art curriculum that inspires creativity and self-expression, builds self-confidence, and develops problem solving and divergent thinking and helps students become lifelong learners. Students become familiar with a variety of art media, tools, techniques, appreciation for and the development of the language of art and develop the ability to employ the Elements of Art and Principles of Design in their work. The program also emphasizes the importance of art in history and contemporary society.
Hey Brookside Families, I will be sending projects home the last week of school. I need your paper grocery bags with handles if you have any. Art will be sent home in these. Please drop off inside or outside of the art room. Thank you so much. Ms. Gavam
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Students have been using a variety of media and techniques the past few months to produce sculptures and collages. There is a real awareness of process especially with clay from playing with it and its tactile quality, its very long journey from malleable wet blob making impressions and playing with surface to fragile bisque ware to dry and shiny/ colorful 3D art. A huge thank you to the parents who volunteered in the art room the weeks that clay sculpting was going on. Your extra hands and time are so appreciated.
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Clay Pinch and Pull Animals and Texture Hand Prints
HANDS:
Students were given square slabs of clay and were instructed to press their chosen hand into the clay to make an impression. They then traced the outline of the hand and used clay tools and pasta to create surface designs. After being fired once, students used oil pastels to color in their clay slabs. They then dipped them in tempera paint baths for a minute and pulled them out. Once the paint cleared, they noticed the oil pastel coming through. It is a resist effect.
ANIMALS:
Students were give small but thick rectangular slabs of clay that had two cuts at the top on each end. Students pulled up the middle ends to sculpt the head and tail of their animals. They then pulled the front arms and hind legs down to make their animal stand up. They used clay tools and pasta to create texture and faces. Animals were fired and glazed and fired again. They then created little colorful mats for their friend to rest upon.
The Very Hungry Catepillar Butterfly Collages
Hand painted papers inspired by Eric Carle
I talked to the Kinders about how when Eric Carle was a child in Germany his teacher told his parents that Eric was very talented and that they should encourage his art making. We then read his book ‘The Very Hungry Catepillar” and students talked about how they think he made his pictures. They used the word COLLAGE and how it means to glue different papers together to make a a new picture. I told them that Eric Carle paints all his own papers and cuts them up himself to make his layered collages. They also saw how he used, COLORED PENCILS AND OIL PASTELS for details and texture. Students painted their background papers and were encouraged to use texture to show grass and sky. They had previously painted warm and cool color papers which i cut up and passed out so they could create their multicolor and layered butterflies.
Kinder Castles Oil Pastel or Sharpie and Liquid Watercolor
Dragons Oil Pastel and Liquid Watercolor
Warm and Cool Color Collage Still Lives Tempera Paint, Construction Paper and Glue
Still Life Sculpture Clay, Pipe Cleaners, Foam sheets, Beads and Straws
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Tempera Still Lives: Cutting out Symmetrical Vases and Mixing Tints
(Mixing with white paint) Tempera Paint, Construction Paper and Glue
Recycled CD Collage Flowers: Used Collage and Radial Design Old CD’s, Glue, Stickers, Card Stock, Sharpies, Coffee Stirrers
Slab Built Texture Bud Vases: Taken home for Mother’s Day Students used clay that was rolled out into a rectangle and scored and slipped the opposite ends to connect into a hollow tube. They created a based, placed the clay tube on tope after scoring and slipping the bottom of the tube and the surface of the base where the tube would sit. They then trimmed away the excess clay to finish the final vase form. They used CLAY TOOLS and PASTA to create texture and pattern for surface design. They were later glazed and fired.
Clay Pinch Pot Animals
I saw these cool planters at Anthropologie and showed the pics to the students as examples.
Greenware: Drying out before the bisque firing Students hand built pinch pots from balls of clay and used their hands and tools to sculpt the other parts of their animals’ bodies. everything was joined to the pinch pot using scoring and slipping. They were glazed afterwards.
Glazed
Primary Color Fish and Secondary Color Bubbles Tempera Paint, Paper, Glitter Glue
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Slab Constructed Texture Owls
Glazing the Owls
Final Owls Clay, Glaze, Pipe Cleaners, Beads, Straws, Feathers and Hot Glue
Little Clay Buddies: Making a Sculpture Stand/Balance (Went Home) Clay, Beads, Bendeez Wire, Pipe Cleaners, Straws, Beads, Toothpicks and Googly Eyes
Bug Sculptures Cardboard, Tape, Plaster Strips, Pipe Cleaner, Googly Eyes, Pom Poms and Hot Glue
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Clay Monsters
Clay and Glaze Students created pinch pots for the mouth of his/her monster.
They then sculpted the features using clay and scoring and slipping to glue the clay features onto the head.
Clay Looms Clay, Clay tools, Oil Pastels and Tempera Paint
If I Could Fly Quilt Panels inspired By Artist Faith Ringgold’s ‘Tar Beach’
The 5th graders worked hard on creating interesting layers of coils and making sure their pieces were stable. The also worked on their glazing technique. They could see the results in the final pieces. I reminded them to use 2-3 coats of a color, to try and paint ALL the surfaces except the bottom and really try and cover all the clay. Most tudents really pushed themselves on this project.
Slab Constructed Clay Masks inspired by Kimmy Cantrell
Slabs of Gray Clay, Clay Tools, Slip, Oil Pastel and Tempera Paint
The focus was on the possible asymmetry of a face and how to create texture.
We looked at Mr. Cantrell’s beautiful masks and the interesting contrasts he created with line, shape, texture and color within a single piece.
I then showed them some African Masks that are created my craftspeople and used for rituals to mark important life and community events. The form follows the function. They noticed how the African Masks were very sleek, minimal and symmetrical.
I then showed them a painting by Picasso from his cubist period that shows just how impactful African Art truly was on his art and European Modern art in general. He basically copied.
Lastly, I showed them the cover of DJ SHADOW’S CD that has some really beautiful artwork on it made up of faces.
Students then picked an emotion and tried to visualize it through a line drawing of a face using a sharpie. Once finished they were given slabs of gray clay that they could cut into any shape and add more features to.
Once fired, they applied oil pastels for color and then dipped them into tempera paint baths for a resist effect.
A few weekends ago I had the opportunity to check out the newly updated and expanded SFMOMA on Educators and Members’ Day. It was a total treat. The new “wings” are beautiful, big and bright. The signage is great. I am a firm believer in “better living through signage.” Kids 18 and under are free and there is a coffee bar on the 5th floor. Woohoo. Most definitely check out what it has to offer.
+ My Teacher’s Pass
+ Self Portrait Bust by Benicia Artist, Sculptor and UC Davis Ceramics Professor,
Robert Arnesson
+ A Photo by contemporary American photographer, Bryan Schutmaat
+ There is an outside area with a huge living wall as a backdrop featuring large scale sculptures by the artist. The contrast of the green and the colored sculptures hidden within a nook of the city and the tall buildings makes perfect sense. You get to interact with art and architecture all at once!
+ Some clever little fellows working together and flanking a doorway. They are next to the
“British Sculpture” Exhibition. These were made by American artist Tom Otterness. http://www.tomotterness.net/
They also had a Barbara Hepworth sculpture nearby.
I had seen an exhibition of her work in Cornwall many years ago at the Tate St. Ives and was just in love with the her sculptures. Her use of organic shapes, of negative space and mix of materials is so beautiful and seamless. http://barbarahepworth.org.uk/
+ Just wanted to include this shot of the edible treats from the TEACHER’S LOUNGE! Yep, a TEACHER’S LOUNGE to meet other educators, eat, drink, charge your phone and chillax.
+ THE EXHIBITION Typeface to Interface: Graphic Design from the Collection
All in all it was an inspiring experience.
I am always aware though when going to a major museum (here and abroad) of who is and who is not represented.
How many women and women of color have exhibitions or pieces shown?
How many minorities have exhibitions or pieces in the museum? Are Native American represented at all? Are there artists with disabilities being shown?
Is there political art? Artists from South America or Africa?
Transgressive Art? Do exhibitions cross boundaries with Music, Performance, Culture?
How kid friendly is the space? Are there wee steps for them to look at work?
A huge thank you to families who came and checked out the art room on Open House.
It was really fun to meet with you and your young artists and scholars. I also want to express my huge gratitude to the dynamic 5th grade duo of Kristin and Lily Broll for their help with mounting, labeling and delivering artwork for Open House. Thank you very much to 4th grade parent volunteer Julia Tananaev for also helping in the mounting process.
Each student gets a piece of artwork displayed. Thank you to classroom teachers for displaying their work in such a lovely manner. The courtyard and classrooms looks so colorful and magical with Brookside Art!
March 5-24th
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 12
2-4 pm. Featured Brookside Artists: Esme Charles, Mary Grayson, Ivri Einy, Nicholas Offord, Benjamin Nieves, Sawyer Galaich, Ivy Lipof, Baily Henson
2. Brookside Art Display at Fair Anselm
Selected K-5th grade artwork on display until Mid April.
Downtown Fairfax across from Good Earth.
3. Ross Valley District
4th & 5th grade Art Show
Selected 4th and 5th grade art from each elementary site is on display until April at the District Office. Art adorns the entrance, hallway and conference room.
Please call ahead to make sure office is open and no meeting is taking place.
4. Kinder Wild Things in the Office and Conference Room @ Brookside.
Happy post ski week! We have been looking at a variety of art genres and artists here in the Art Studio and students have been also using some new media.
Kindergarten:
Collage Self Portraits: Students learned about facial proportions in this lesson. They practiced drawing their facial features and then created a final piece using crayons, buttons and pretty papers.
Winter Snowpeople Monoprints:
Kinder artists practiced drawing stacked circles for a snowperson. They drew a final one on a piece of foam and rolled it with an inked brayer. They made their own stamp! They then turned the foam face down and pressed it onto a sheet of blue paper and made a print. They also used corks and cubes to print a patterned frame.
Not a Box Collage/Drawing:
We read “Not a Box” by Antoinette Portis. A box is just a box . . . unless it’s not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboard box, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible.
Students glued a rectangular piece of graph paper to a manila paper background and imaged their own Not a Box creation and adventure.
Kinder Hearts:
In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we looked at the art of American Pop Artist Jim Dine.
Students loved how he used color, texture, paint, printmaking and sculpture to render colorful, irreverent hearts. We practiced drawing hearts using a cross made of dots that they could easily connect. They used oil pastels to add color but were encouraged to layer, blend and colors, break up their hearts and backgrounds into several areas.
Architectural Blueprints:
We read “Iggy Peck Architect” by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts and also looked the awesome flap book “See Inside Famous Buildings” from Art Usborne. We talked about the field of architecture and different types of buildings that not only architects people design but also all the variety of buildings humans find themselves in: houses, offices, schools, places of worship, etc… .. Students practiced printing buildings of their own design using cardboard, cubes and spools. They dipped them in acrylic paint and tamped them into different lines and shapes.
1st grade:
Robot Collages: We read the book “Robo-Sauce” by Adam Rubin and Daniel Salmieri. It is a hilarious book about a boy who not only turns himself into a robot but turns his family, his dog, his house and the book itself into robots. Students were inspired with their collage materials to construct their own robots,
Matisse Inspired Oraganic/Freeform shape Collages: We read the Book “Matisses’s Garden”. One day, the artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird from a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and didn’t want to throw it away, so he pinned it to the wall of his apartment. But the bird looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. He didn’t know it then, but he had taken the first step in creating a new form of art, one that would soon transform the walls of his studio into a blooming, vibrant garden. By Samantha Friedman, with illustrations by Cristina Amodeo and artwork by Matisse. Students were inspired by his bold cutouts and we discussed geometric vs. organic shapes and positive vs. negative shapes. Students then created collages using these concepts.
Chinese New Year Dragon Drawings: (Students took home)
2nd grade:
Collage Self Portraits with Words:
Mixed Media Cityscapes: Inspired by “The Trip” by Ezra Jack Keats One of Keats’s best-loved characters, Louie, stars in this poignant story about the loneliness of moving to a new place. Homesick for his old neighborhood, Louie finds a way to return by making a shoe box model of where he used to live, and pretending he is inside it. But soon, Louie will discover that he doesn’t need to use his imagination to find friends; in fact, they may be as close as his new front door. Ezra Jack Keats used cut-out and gouache collage to create cityscapes that carry a strong dose of urban reality: grime, graffiti, and a lot of energy.
Chinese New Year Dragon Puppets: (took home)
Alma Woodesy Thomas Inspired Collages:
Students learned about the amazing art and life of this America artist who is was and is an inspiration to children, educators, painters,female artists, people of color and elderly artists.The project was open ended but they learners could tear, cut, arrange and glue the colored strips of paper they were given into an abstract composition.
Alma Woodsey Thomas: 1891–1978
Alma Woodsey Thomas developed her signature style—large, abstract paintings filled with dense, irregular patterns of bright colors—in her 70s.
Thomas was born in Columbus, Georgia, the oldest of four girls. In 1907, her family moved to Washington, D.C., seeking relief from the racial violence in the South. Though segregated, the nation’s capital still offered more opportunities for African Americans than most cities in those years.
As a girl, Thomas dreamed of being an architect and building bridges, but there were few women architects a century ago. Instead, she attended Howard University, becoming its first fine arts graduate in 1921. In 1924, Thomas began a 35 year career teaching art at a D.C. junior high school. She was devoted to her students and organized art clubs, lectures, and student exhibitions for them. Teaching allowed her to support herself while pursuing her own painting part-time.
Thomas’ early art was realistic, though her Howard professors Loïs Mailou Jones and James V. Herring challenged her to experiment with abstraction. When she retired from teaching and was able to concentrate on art full-time, Thomas finally developed her signature style.
She debuted her abstract work in an exhibition at Howard 1966, at the age of 75. Thomas’ abstractions have been compared with Byzantine mosaics, the Pointillist technique of Georges Seurat, and the paintings of the Washington Color School, yet her work is quite distinctive.
Thomas became an important role model for women, African Americans, and older artists. She was the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, and she exhibited her paintings at the White House three times.
3rd grade:
Rainbow Fish Mixed Media Paintings:
We read the story Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister.
The Rainbow Fish is an award-winning book about a beautiful fish who finds friendship and happiness when he learns to share. The book is best known for its morals about the value of being an individual and for the distinctive shiny foil scales of the Rainbow Fish.
Students selected a sea creature of their own choice and design and used oil pastels to draw out their underwater scene. They watercolor and salt to paint the scene in and used shiny origami paper for the scales.
Reductive Print Self Portraits:
Reduction method is a printmaking technique when a multicolored print is made with the use of a single block. Through a series of progressive cuttings, inkings, and printings, the image slowly emerges while the actual block is destroyed. A reduction print can therefore never be reprinted. The main advantage of reduction method is perfect registration.
Students practiced drawing self portraits using proportion. They they transferred their image to a piece of printing foam. The rolled white ink onto their “stamp” and made a print. They then cut their “face” out of the foam and rolled blue ink into the remainder of the foam. They printed the blue inked foam directly onto the white print creating one multi color self portrait!
4th grade:
We read the Book “Matisses’s Garden”. One day, the artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird from a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and didn’t want to throw it away, so he pinned it to the wall of his apartment. But the bird looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. He didn’t know it then, but he had taken the first step in creating a new form of art, one that would soon transform the walls of his studio into a blooming, vibrant garden. By Samantha Friedman, with illustrations by Cristina Amodeo and artwork by Matisse. Students were inspired by his bold cutouts and we discussed geometric vs. organic shapes and positive vs. negative shapes. Students then created collages using their names and these design concepts.
Expressive Chalk Pastel Self Portraits: Students learned about facial proportions and how to render facial features.
They practiced drawing sketches of themselves first.We then looked at the artwork of German Expressionists. Students created a final self potrait using chalk Pastels and Sta Flo starch.
Lois Mailou Jones Masks: As an extension project after they finished their self portraits, students could create a mask inspired by the art of Lois Mailou Jones. They were encouraged to blend and layer oil pastels to create tints, shades and new colors.
Lois Mailou Jones was one of the premier African American artists of the 20th century. Her paintings incorporate African, Caribbean, and African-American influences and themes. They are featured in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Portrait Gallery, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the National Palace in Haiti. In addition to her career as a painter, Jones was a professor of art at Howard University, teaching there from 1930 to 1977.
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5th grade:
Finished Textured Landscapes:
Students looked at the rural drawings of Vincent Van Gogh. We discussed his use of line in his works. Students identified the foreground, middle ground and background in their compositions. Learners could draw inspiration from images of landscapes torn from magazines or could imagine their own landscapes. Many students use their imaginations and memories from past trips as inspiration. Students had to create 2 pieces of art on black paper. They drew an initial sketch using white oil pastel and then a final piece using white tempera paint and oil or chalk pastels. They had to use line to create perspective and texture.
Surrealist Collages: We looked at the artwork of Salvador Dali and how he used dream imagery to create his surrealist images. We then looked at some artwork by Collage artists who use images and text found in magazines and books to make culture or consumer clashing statements.
5th graders were then encouraged to mine for images from magazines. They were encouraged to play, move images around and juxtapoze images and meanings.
Postcard Collages:
Students used mixed papers, found text, old calendars and ephemera to create Postcard Collages. Students were encouraged to tear, cut, overlap papers.
If you didn’t get to make it to Family Art Night on January 27th don’t worry…we will do it again next year! For those who attended, it was such a pleasure to meet you and to see so many families making art together 😉 It was a wonderful night of community, creativity and conversation. Thank you for coming and sharing your love of art and Brookside. This event was created by the art teachers of RVUSD to extend the art experience to the whole family and to enjoy the creative process together.
THANK YOUS: Thank you to Lily and Kristin Broll, Norah and Emily Elder, Sarah and Jenna Wulff, and Kylah Seely for helping me prep materials one sunny Saturday. Thank you to Aida and Sophia Lopez, Stacey Quinones, Jenna and Sarah Wulff, Sloan and Tatum Korty, Lili and Kristin Broll and Jose our super day custodian who all helped with transforming the MPR into a massive art studio. It was a lot of work. Thanks to the Broll, Offord, Hogan, Andrade, Waterford, McBride, Chukreef Shafer, Wulff and Nieves families for lending a hand during and after family Art Night. Thank you to Principal Van Adelsberg for taking time out of your busy non-stop day to spend some time with us that magical evening. Thank you to our super night custodian Rodney for helping out at the close of the evening.
Enjoy the images from a really sweet and colorful night….
Kindest Regards,
Jasmine Gavam
Brookside Elementary Art
Welcome back! Here is a look at the young artists at Brookside have been working on. Here is a very brief (not too much writing this time) description of projects. Enjoy!
Kindergarten: Where the Wild Things Are
Kindergarten: Family Portraits
1st grade: Tree Sculptures
1st grade: Snowflake Cutting
1st grade: Matthew’s Dream Collage
We read Mathtew’s Dream by Leo Lionni. It is the story of a mouse who is searching for truth and inspiration is his little world. His life and mind are transformed during a class visit to an Art museum. He sees paintings for the first time and his overwhelmed with joy and peace. He also has a special encounter with a girl mouse named Nicoletta. Art and life mix when he declares himself a painter and becomes one years later and also marries Nicoletta. The students learned about different genres of art: Abstract, Still Lives, Portraits and Landscapes.
2nd grade: Outer Space Forms
Students drew their value scales first.
3rd grade: Landscapes (Warms, Cools, Tints)
3rd and 4th grade: Tin Ornaments
4th grade: Value, Shading and Forms
4th grade: Trees
4th grade: Xavier Castellanos Inspired Landscapes
5th grade: Color Wheel Hands (Primary, Secondary and Complementary Colors)
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Art in the Key of We 