Art Smart

CIPLC Students had a great first few weeks back at school and are finishing up their first unit! Our Early Childhood students are busy experimenting with different media, and this week they continued to work with collage and paint, but Kindergarten also started papermaking!  First Grade students finished their warm and cool cactuses this week, making them truly multimedia masterpieces with liquid tempera paint and real  sand. They have also started working with creating different types of lines! Second Grade students finished their Matisse Collages and have started working in small groups to create self portraits and printed fish! Keep an eye on instagram for some works in progress.  Third Grade students are learning about color theory and using analogous colors to fill in their continuous line owls.  Fourth Grade artists are studying Modern Artist Hundertwasser, and created drawings with his signature hidden faces and eyes, contour lines, onion d...

CIPLC Students had a great first few weeks back at school and are getting into their first projects! Our Early Childhood students are busy experimenting with different media, and this week they worked on collages and played with paint! First Grade students played with analogous colors and line to paint and begin to assemble mixed media cactus. Fluffy clouds and sandy foregrounds will be added next week.  Second Grade students continued to work on their Henri  Matisse inspired collages. Students will be embellishing the collages with their names.  Third Grade students are working with continuous line drawing, or drawing an entire image with one line! They are super excited to start adding color.  Fourth Grade artists are studying Modern Artist Hundertwasser, and created drawings with his signature hidden faces and eyes, contour lines, onion domes, and other elements.  Fifth Grade artists have been looking at the work of Paul Klee, and using ...