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

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

So you are wondering "What is Square 1 Art?" Well let me tell you...
Square 1 Art is a unique and profitable Art fundraiser for our school. We send in the work which we have created in the art room to the Square 1 Art company. They copy the work into their programs and send each participant an order form with a free set of stickers of your child's work. You choose what you would like to order for yourself, gifts for family, gifts for teachers or a tile for our school which will be donated to the school and installed in a mural to allow your child's art work to be a part of our school forever. Send in your order either online or back to school. We then send in all orders and they arrive back at school before the winter break.
So where does the money we raise go...?
The money we raise goes directly to our art department. We use high quality products with our students here at Brownsville and the money raised goes towards purchasing products such as "primsa-colored art sticks", authentic drawing pencils, high quality markers, and oil pastels. Along with these supplies we also support our ceramics program with this money. Every year every student has the opportunity to create a ceramic piece and the money from this fundraiser helps support this program. If we do really well we have even been known to share some of this money with the classroom teachers so that they can buy art supplies for their own classroom.
So send in your orders as soon as you receive them and support our Art Program at Brownsville Elementary School.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Check out what we have been doing in the Brownsville art room...





Kindergarten paints pumpkins





3rd grade creates Secret Places


4th grade draws a Still Life

5th grade learns how to turn shapes into forms

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Kindergarten Apple Trees


2nd Grade landscapes


1st grade sea life




3rd Grade Self Portraits


4th Grade paper cut outs



EXCITING news! Square 1 Art is on its way to Georgia. It will arrive by the end of the week and they will start processing our work. The individual catalogs will be sent back on November 7th and sent home Monday, November 11th. Be on the look out!