What will I learn and do in ART in Elementary?
Drawing
· Hard and soft pencils
· Soft and oil pastels
· Charcoal, marker and pen
Painting
· Mixing colors and age appropriate color wheels
· Using watercolor and other paints
· Painting with a variety of materials: brushes, sticks, sponges etc.
Printmaking
· Mono-prints
· Printing designs with a variety of stamping tools
· Using brayers, barons, inks
· Registering and numbering prints
· Making linoleum and Styrofoam prints
Constructions
· Collage, sculpture, bookmaking, papermaking
· Paper Mache, cardboard, wire, and found object sculptures
· Stabiles, mobiles, figures, masks, puppets, dioramas, mixed media
Ceramics
· Slabs,coiling, pinch pots, hand-building, combinations
· Vocabulary- Score, slip, leather-hard, bone dry, additive, subtractive methods
· Glaze work
FiberArts
· Weaving,hand or machine sewing, radial and straight weaving, spinning and felting of fibers, basket-making, knit/crochet
· Vocabulary-warp,weft, loom, shuttle
Photography and Technology
· Photography as an art form
· Technology as used in art
· On-line art games, paint programs, Adobe Photoshop
· Basic animation- flipbook, thaumatrope
· Camera parts and simple functions
· Photo-manipulation, alterations, image transfers, compositions