SECOND SEMESTER 2020-2021
We are so proud of our students' accomplishments! Having work displayed in the annual school art show is an accomplishment in and of itself: only our best pieces went on exhibit and all the students had multiple pieces on display. I am very pleased with my students' commitment to excellence, respectful attitudes, and hard work! We have amazing kids at HCA!
Congratulations to the following students for their wins in our 2021 school art show! Many thanks to our judge who spent several hours choosing winners: Ms. Sharon Christman, retired art educator from Mountain Brook City Schools and university professor, UAB.
I am so pleased to see such beautiful works of art created during this year of all years. Covid tried to hold us back, but thanks be to the Lord, we made it happen anyway.
It was such a pleasure to teach these groups of students! Thank you, parents, for all of your support this year! We couldn't have done it without you!
For more information about what we learned this semester, please click on this link: 4th/5th Grade Curriculum Report Second Semester 2020-2021.
ART SHOW!
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1st Place Most Creative: Reed W, grade 5 (Landscape Painting in Orange and Blue)
2nd Place Most Creative: Cash N, grade 4 (Pixel Person)
3rd Place Most Creative: Caroline J, grade 5, (Snowflake)
2nd Place Sculpture: Cash N, grade 4 (Lego vehicle)
1st Place Mixed Media: Jackson B, grade 4 (Snowflake)
2nd Place Mixed Media: Harrison A, grade 5 (Aquarium Perspective)
3rd Place Mixed Media: Alden W, grade 4 (Pixel Person)
1st Place Painting Technique: Alden W, grade 4 (Acrylic Landscape on canvas)
2nd Place Painting Technique: Harrison A: grade 5 (Native American inspired design)
3rd Place Painting Technique: McKinsey H, grade 4 (Snowflake)
1st Place Drawing Technique: Ruth M, grade 5 (Aquarium Perspective)
2nd Place Drawing Technique: Caroline J, grade 5 (drawing of a person/McDonald's)
3rd Place Drawing Technique: Caden C, grade 5 (Psanky egg design)
1st Place, Best Use of 3D Space: Josiah K, grade 4 (abstract planet)
2nd Place, Best Use of 3D Space: Selah K, grade 4 (Sunset pastel)
3rd Place, Best Use of 3D Space: Ruth M, grade 5 (Flower painting)
AISA DISTRICT ART COMPETITION
ART SHOW!
For more information about this project, click on this link: God Calls Me Wonderful: Psalm 139
PAINTINGS INSPIRED BY THE ARTWORK OF GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
COLLAGRAPH PRINTS
LINEAR PERSPECTIVE AQUARIUM SCENES
PIXEL PEOPLE & LEARNING PROPORTION
FIRST SEMESTER 2020-2021
Welcome to our 4th and 5th grade art class! This is a sample of our talented students' accomplishments during the first semester. If you would like to see the entire set of Learning Targets, online resources, and state standards, please click on this link: 4th/5th Grade Curriculum Report.
I am proud of our kids and their commitment to learning, experimenting, and being creative. They have been a joy to teach all year long! I am very much looking forward to the spring semester with our 4th and 5th graders. Both groups have been among the most delightful groups I have ever taught.
I hope you enjoy this short virtual art show as much as I did in setting it up! It was such a joy to review the wonderful work of our young artists.
CHRISTMAS, PRINTMAKING, A LITTLE KINDNESS, AND THE GROWTH MINDSET
Printmaking With Foam Core, YouTube
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| Sadia, grade 5 |
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| Cash, grade 4 |
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| Reginald, grade 5 |
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| Christmas Nativity display by Jolene, grade 5 |
THANKSGIVING, DRAWING, AND SETTING UP 3-D SPACE IN AN ARTWORK
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| Raegan, grade 4 |
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| Jax, Grade 4 |
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| Hudson, grade 4 |
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| Jackson, Grade 4 |
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| Sawyer, grade 4 |
VETERANS DAY: DRAWING 3-D FLAGS AND REALISTIC EAGLES
One of our 5th grade students decided to dress up for Veterans Day!
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| 4th Grade |
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| 5th Grade |
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| 5th Grade |
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| Caden, Grade 5 |
PRINTMAKING, RADIAL SYMMETRY, VAN GOGH, & NATIVE AMERICAN ART
Students learned about radial symmetry for this project, experimenting with designs as well as applying color in an unusual way: printing with aluminum foil and markers! When I learned that the 5th graders were studying Native American art in their Social Studies class, I decided to have them research Native American designs before drawing their radial pattern. They enjoyed trying to guess which culture made a variety of art pieces; from weaving to Totem Poles to headdresses. The artwork can be differentiated by region: Southwest, Northwest, Plains, and Woodlands.
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| Sadia, Grade 5 |
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| Harrison, Grade 5 |
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| Reginald, Grade 5 |
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| 4th/5th grade shaving cream printed cards |
Who knew you could make art with shaving cream? Honestly, I didn't know about this until I saw an art teacher colleague post her video about doing monoprints with food coloring and shaving cream: I decided to give it a try! We will be doing this again - it was a huge hit with the kids!
We used liquid watercolor carefully dripped onto a pillow of shaving cream and then swirled with a toothpick. We pressed a piece of folded paper onto the surface, then scraped off the shaving cream to reveal a beautiful, turbulent design similar to the pattern in Van Gogh's Starry Night! Students enjoyed watching the paper marbleizing video so much that we watched it twice! They also enjoyed discussing Van Gogh's most famous painting, and the fact that scientists have learned more about turbulence through Van Gogh's representation of it.
Shaving Cream Printing, YouTube
Van Gogh Printmaking, YouTube
Van Gogh on Dark Water, Paper Marbleizing, YouTube
Monoprinting With Washable Markers, YouTube
PAINTING AND 20TH c. ARTIST GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
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| Caroline, Grade 5 One of the most famous artists of the 20th century was Georgia O'Keeffe. She is considered the "mother of American Modernism" because she painted such unusual abstract images of flowers, bones, and sometimes cities! Artists of her time were figuring out all kinds of new ways to create, and O'Keeffe was no different. She found unique ways of showing objects that most people wouldn't look at twice. Her flowers were shown very close, inviting you to get lost in the colors and lines. The paintings of bones were done to show how beautiful even these objects are! O'Keeffe wanted everyone to notice the beauty of things. Students chose to do several drawings of either flowers or a fascinating cow skull, donated by one of the 4th grade families (Thank you so much to the Nelsons!) They closely observed the shapes and relationships of each flower petal, leaf, bone segment, or tooth. Students revised their drawings before beginning to carefully apply paint. We also learned several painting techniques and about color theory: making colors from primaries, which colors make each other stand out the best (complementary colors), and how to make tints, shades, and neutrals. The Studio Habits of "Reflect, Observe, and Develop Craft" were used during this unit. |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1924 |
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| Georgia O'Keeffe, Ram's Head With Hollyhock, 1935 |
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| Reed, Grade 5 |
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| Ruth, Grade 5 |
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| Ruth, Grade 5 |
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| Caden, Grade 5 |
ABSTRACT ART, EXPERIMENTATION, AND 20th c. ARTIST WASSILY KANDINSKY
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| Josiah, Grade 4 |
Students discussed Wassily Kandinsky's famous abstract art after viewing the videos, "The Noisy Paintbox," and "Wassily Kandinsky Cover by Mozart, Piano Concerto #23." In the video, many of Kandinsky's paintings are shown while Mozart's piano music plays in the background. Students were surprised to see that Kandinsky painted both realistic scenes as well as abstract. Does a painting always have to be about a recognizable subject such as a person or place? No: It can be a simple composition of shapes, colors, and lines and still be an excellent work of art.
Kandinsky considered his paintings to be musical in a way: he had a condition called synesthesia: he saw colors when he listened to music. Each instrument had its own set of colors in his mind! So, he named many of his paintings after musical compositions.
Students used the print from their coffee filter designs as a starting point, adding more color or lines to experiment with the design. We cut these out along with other circles and arranged them in a collage. Finally, we decided what they reminded us of. Planets? Trees? Or, a beautiful design was enough for some. I think these are quite successful, representing creative decision making as well as a unique story. The Studio Habits, "Stretch/Explore, Envision, Express, Understand the Art World, and Engage/Persist" were practiced during this lesson.
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| Selah, Grade 4 |
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| Cash, Grade 4 |
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| Mara, Grade 4 |
Wassily Kandinsky, Several Circles, 1926
GOD'S MASTERPIECE, GLASS ART AND CONTEMPORARY ARTIST DALE CHIHULY
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| photo courtesy of Mindy Barber |
During the first week of school, students discussed the first chapter of Genesis and the fact that God Himself is the very First Artist of all time. He created us in His Image to be artists as well, gifting each of us with different abilities. Everyone is an artist, it just comes out of us in different ways! Some people express themselves through painting or drawing, others through song, poetry, story-telling, or even cooking! Everyone is creative in some way.
We are God's masterpiece and He is constantly creating something new - we can see His art in the sky, in the ocean, and even in the smallest of flowers.
We also learned about contemporary glass artist Dale Chihuly, viewing the video, "Shattering the Mold, Dale Chihuly and the Science of Glass Blowing." We then made a simple sculpture out of a coffee filter, markers, water, and some spray starch! Students added color with markers to a coffee filter and then observed the changes in color after spraying it with a light mist of water. The colors mix and swirl, transforming before our eyes. A bit of color theory was discussed: what happened when yellow and blue mixed? They made green, of course! When these dried, we carefully arranged them upside down on a plastic cup and added spray starch to stiffen them. The next day they could be removed from their armature (support) and displayed. We discussed what they reminded us of: alien life forms? Flowers? Sea anemones? Everyone had an interesting interpretation! All of these art pieces were exhibited in our hallway display case upstairs. Beautiful!
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| Glass Macchia sculpture by artist Dale Chihuly |
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| photo courtesy of Mindy Barber |
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| photo courtesy of Mindy Barber |
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