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

Monday, February 25, 2013

Mosaics in the 3rd grade




The 3rd graders have been creating mosaics. We looked at some of the mosaics found in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. The students were amazed at how grand the Basilica is and how many mosaics there are in this one place. So we hopped on our imaginary airplane and flew to Rome, Italy. Got in a bus and went to St. Peter's Basilica (all in our minds of coarse). The children got to choose weather to help repair the floor, wall, altar or ceiling mosaic. They got a good feeling of what it must have been like to create these mosaics hundreds of years ago. Once our time was up we headed back to Crozet, VA and made it to PE on time. Just another day in the Brownsville art room. 
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