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, March 29, 2017

Here's what's happening in your neck of the woods...

The art show is over but the art projects continue on at BES! Here is a sneak peak at what the students are working on in the art room as well as in the classroom...






3rd Grade paints landscapes inspired by Wolf Kahn
They discover what color can do as well as gain the understanding of 
background, mid-ground and foreground.










1st grade uses their imaginations when showing the viewer 
an image of their very own Tooth Fairy! 
Each students draws and writes about what their 
Tooth Fairy looks like, how it travels around, and
what type of tooth holder it carries. 
Using patterns, shapes and color
each Tooth Fairy turns out unique. 

























In the 4th grade students have been working very hard in their classrooms at school as well as at home to complete a Virginia Animal project. They did research on the animal of their choosing, wrote reports, drew pictures and made sculptures of their animal. The joys of learning are here in the 4th grade. Now they will present their projects to their class. Wow! AMAZING!



Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Final Week of the ACPS Art Festival

This is the final week of the ACPS Art Festival! Please stop by Fashion Square Mall this week to Check out the amazing art work from the 26 ACPS. Or join us for the Closing Ceremony on Sunday, March 26th at 5pm at Fashion Square Mall


Tuesday, March 14, 2017

ACPS Fine Arts Festival March 12th-26th Fashion Square Mall

Please go the the Fashion Square Mall to see over 1500 pieces of art work for Albemarle County Public Schools. The show will be up March 12th through March 26th. All ages from the 26 county schools are represented in this show.
Brownsville has 72 pieces of work in the show. If you go you will find out work displayed in front of Eddie Bauer and J Crew. The following students are in the show this year...

ACPS Fine Arts Festival 2017
Pre-K
Bella Gibson
Grace Winn

Kindergarten
Jack Schropp
Ty Palante 
Austin Perpetua 
Gabe Weis 
Austin Carroll 
Bristol Hux 
Nuala O’Loughlin 
Matt Henderson 
Austin Lemon 
Morgan See 
Brady Sowers 
William Wegner
Paisleigh Payne 

1st grade
Shane Patel 
Mary Smith 
Lyla Jankins 
Willow Phillips
Noah Estes 
Garrett Frye 
Sage Evans 
Jacob Deaton 

2nd grade  
Kaleb Estes 
Riley Warnick 
Jonah Venables
Kennedy MacCleery 
Lacey Mauldin 
Alice Maples 
Ella Muro 
Hunter Stumpf 
Sami Looney 
Alana Wood 
Wesley Petty 
Sam Sorrentino   
Zachary Tueting 
Amelia Hodson 
Naomi Anderson 
Emelia DelCarmen
Kathleen Wyatt 
Maddox Nauman
Gabe Villanueva-Martin 

3rd grade
Quinn Eliason 
Chloe Sachno 
Clemente Norambuena
Townsend Stumpf 
Mo Sandborn 
Lindsey Corbeil

4th grade
Madison Brown 
Ketner Pleasants 
Shi Lu DeBerry 
Miles Lindquist 
Riley Evans 
Emily See 
Aynsley Mauldin 
Lily Pallante 
Ava Nauman 
Hanna Rohde 
Elsie MacCleery 

5th grade
Mathew May
Sabrina Glover
Mia Ashbaugh 
Rafael Ibanez 
Katherine Alhusen 
Sara Moore 
Bryce Taylor
Aubrey Benton 
Noah Westenberger
Aneesa Chandra 
Thatcher Healy 
Riley Henschel 


Saturday, March 11, 2017

ACPS Fine Arts Festival

The Art Show is being installed this Sunday morning, March 12th and will remain at the Fashion Square Mall until the afternoon of March 26th. We hope everyone can come out to see all the amazing artwork from Albemarle County Public Schools! Over 1,500 pieces of art from 26 schools will be at the mall for all to see.
If your child's art work is in the show we will be sending a letter home in the Monday folders.
Support the Arts and go check it out!