Open House 2015-2016

This year I am again attending the 5th Grade Open House night at Hillcrest. Below is what I am passing out to all parents who make it to my classroom:

5^th and 6^th Grade Art—Room 126—Miss Brown

Hello and Welcome to Art Class,

This is my seventh year teaching a Hillcrest Intermediate and I am excited to continue sharing my knowledge of visual arts with my students. I communicate via skyward and my blog about things happening in the art room. Please subscribe to my blog by clicking ‘Join this Site’ on the right hand side under ‘Followers’.

http://missbrownsartblog.blogspot.com/

I am also trying out Artsonia this year. It is a place where images of student artwork is uploaded and can be viewed through a personal student account. I am still in the process of loading my rosters onto the site. When I’m completed Artsonia should email you asking for your permission for the artwork to be visible. I copied a sample of what the email should look like below. You will just click ‘Activate Account’ and then enjoy all the perks Artsonia has to offer. It’s not only an online digital art collection of your child’s artwork, they also offer various items that the artwork can be printed onto for purchase. A small portion of the proceeds come back to the art room for extra supplies too.

https://www.artsonia.com/

I’m happy to announce that we successfully raised enough money for 5 iPads for the classroom! They should be arriving soon and we’ll start making art with them asap. Stay tuned to my blog to see what we do.

Please always feel free to email me with any questions you may have about my class.

Miss Molli Brown

Here is a slideshow of past student work for display while parents are walking through my classroom.
 

Start of the year...Quick but Awesome Projects

This year both grades did a quick one-day project to start the year off. Both served as a little review of info from last year and acted as a warm-up for the students' creativity. Sixth graders created symmetrical designs in 4 sections of a circle using oil pastel, cut them apart and placed them in various positions on a square of paper. When the designs were all put together they created one larger collaborative artwork. We also discussed two principles of design, unity and variety.

• Unity-Unity is achieved when the components of a work of art are perceived as harmonious, giving the work a sense of completion.
• Variety- Use of different elements of art to add interest to an artwork. Variety is a principle of design.
• Symmetry- exact balance on opposite sides of a dividing line of an item.
• Collaborative Art- More than one artist contributed to the resulting art piece. The artists involved worked together.

Fifth graders had a fun and messy color review. They also did great following the art room procedures that they are getting used to. They used only the primary colors and mixed them to create the secondary colors. Each color was stamped onto a collaborative rainbow artwork. They're really cheering up the hallways of the school too!

• color-  is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is).
• primary colors- are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors.
• secondary colors- are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet).
• color wheel-A circular organization of the colors on the color spectrum.