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

Thursday, May 11, 2017

Wild Things are in the BES Library

They are here... 
The "Wild Things" exhibit (a Kindergarten/Western Albemarle High School collaboration project) is in our library! We hope you can take the time to come see the amazing collaboration between our Kindergarten art students and the WAHS art students. 
Here is how it happened... 
The Kindergarten art classes read the book Where the Wild Things Are. Next they designed their very own "Wild Thing" using lines, shapes, color and pattern with crayons and watercolor. In the classroom the students use descriptive words to describe their "Wild Thing". Then the art teachers chose some of the "Wild Thing" watercolor projects from each Kindergarten class and took them to the WAHS art classes. At Western the art students choose the Wild Thing that they wanted to make into a 3D sculpture. They use the description and the painting to recreate the 2D project into a 3D project. They use recycled materials along with stitching and gluing to bring the "Wild Thing" to life. 
~Outstanding Artistry~






















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