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

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Dear Brownsville Families,
Our first art projects are well underway and some of the grades have even finished and are on to the next. In grades K and 1st we intermingled the project for Square 1 Art with other projects because we had to let the paint dry. In 2nd through 5th grades the pictures have many steps involved so they tend to take a bit longer, plus the students are studying a concept so they must understand that first.
By the 2nd week October  we should be wrapping up all the projects for Square 1 Art and shipping them off to the company.
At the beginning of November the personalized order packets arrive at school and we will send them home with each child right away. Enclosed in each packet is the custom catalog and child's free set of stickers with easy order instructions: paper and/or online.
By middle of December all online and paper orders will be sent to school and distributed by our Square 1 Art volunteers.   
With your support this will be our best year yet.

Artfully yours,
The Brownsville Art Department
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