Op Art!

OP Art

Optical Art became popular in the late 1950’s when artists like Victor Vasarely began to show their artwork in galleries. Third graders learned to “trick the eye” by using converging lines, complimentary color and shading to create these amazing illusions.

Vanishing Point: The spot where all lines converge to show depth

Complimentary Colors: Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel.

Shading: Adding a shadow to make a drawing appear three-dimensional

Third Grade: Art of Ghana Unit

Inspired by the amazing work Rebecca Kuntz (daughter of Lincoln teacher Matt Kuntz) is doing to help build an educational center in Ghana, third graders learned about students in Ghana just like them who love to learn and play. Glazed alphabet tiles made by staff and students were sent to decorate the walls of the learning center, while others were sold at the annual carnival to benefit the cause. To connect the experience of the third graders to those of the children in Ghana, students learned how to weave based on Kente cloth and designed their own symbol based on on Adinkra cloth.

Please feel free to visit Rebecca's site to hear more about the amazing things that are happening for young people in Ghana:
http://www.together-we-are.com/tag/rebecca-kuntz/

No Ordinary Owls!

Second Graders made these shiny birds using tooling foil and sharpie markers. Intricate patterns were used to really make them pop.

Warm and Cool Fall Leaves:

First graders learned about cropping-something going off the page and overlapping-one thing a little on top of the other and used these techniques to make interesting compositions of falling leaves. Then they used their warm colors in the foreground and cool colors in the background to make the leaves pop off the page.

First Grade Learns about Kandinsky

Russian abstract painter Wassily Kandinsky painted his concentric circle pieces while listening to classical music. First graders did the same and came up with some interesting color combinations!

3rd Grade Perspective Pumpkins

Wow 3rd Grade! What do you get when you combine vanishing points, horizon lines, and diminishing size? Pumpkins in Perspective!