Welcome

Welcome to the Brownsville Elementary School art blog. We hope you enjoy exploring the art gallery created by the students in grades Preschool - 5th. The art projects we do with our students allows everyone to experience art through different mediums...

DRAWING

pencils, pens, crayons, markers and colored pencils

~Students start out in the lower grades learning how to draw animals using shapes. Then in the upper grades they learn proportions of the human face and figure. Then they learn how to shade and add value to make their drawings look realistic.

PAINTING

watercolors and tempera paint

~Students start with painting in Kindergarten and build on these skills all throughout elementary school. They learn how to properly use the paints and take care of the brushes.

SCULPTING

clay, wood, wire and found objects

~Clay is a favorite medium in all grades. Each year our clay projects build on each other so that by the time you are in 5th grade you use all the skills to create your sculpture. Kindergarten also uses found object to make faces. Second grade also uses wood to make Kachina Dolls and 4th also uses wire to create wire figures.

PLUS A FEW EXTRAS

print making, weaving and stitchery

~We print in many ways but mostly in 2nd grade, in 3rd grade we love to weave and in 4th (or 5th) we learn stitchery.


All of our students get to be in the studio for 45 mins. a week but they are constantly creating throughout every day.


Artfully yours!
your art teachers, Shannon Horridge and Tetyana Wittkowski

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Off to a CREATIVE START in 2013

We are off to a very creative start in the art room at Brownsville Elementary. We have jumped right into our projects that we had left back in 2012.
5th grade is glazing their hand built sculptures, 4th grade is glazing their clay pockets, 3rd grade is creating their background for their explorer ships, 2nd grade continues on their Native American projects, 1st grade imagines what their tooth fairy looks like and they use glitter paint to make a portrait of their tooth fairy and Kindergarten draws with oil pastels on black paper and discovers how white paint can be sponged on to look like snow.
Lots of creative juices are flowing make sure you ask your students what they are creating in the art room!
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