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, April 28, 2015

WoW! May is almost here and we have been busy in the BES Art room...

Pre-school is learning about the earth and created "pet rocks" with paint and google eyes

Kindergarten created pictures you can SEE and FEEL based on the book, Lucy's Picture

1st grade made paper collage pictures inspired by Faith Ringold's book Tar Beach

2nd grade is finishing up their Egyptian Scrolls by making them look really old

3rd grade is starting to add raffia and beads to their African masks

4th grade learned about Amate Bark paintings and created one of their own with stylized drawings of animals and plants

5th grade has launched into their final project of their elementary school career by learning about foreshortening and creating a self-portrait with foreshortened feet and hands.

Everyone here is buzzing with excitement as the weather warms up and the thought of summer becomes a reality.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

THE CAVE!

Yes, you heard me correctly…we have a cave at Brownsville and the 2nd grade has been painting on the walls and ceiling of their cave. With our fearless Art Print parent leaders, the 2nd grade students have had the opportunity to experience what it would have been like to paint in a cave. Laura Allen (The Head of Art Print for Brownsville) and myself constructed the 14'x5' cave last Friday and on Monday morning students were trying out their painting skills on the bumpy walls and ceiling of the dark life-like cave. Check out...







With Art Print and Art working together the possibilities are endless (and sometimes dark)!