6th Grade Art

    The sixth graders started off the year learning about the Elements of Art with an emphasis on Line. They created Optic-art drawings where they had to draw a single curvy line across their paper and add 7 dots. Then they took a sharpie and connected the dots until the entire paper was covered with lines creating Dr. Seuse-esque drawings. Then they colored them in with colored pencil. This was a fun project and the students really enjoyed it!
     After this project students made amazing watercolor stained glass paintings by drawing with Elmer's Glue that had been dyed black. Then they took watercolor using the wet on wet technique and colored in the sections different warm and cool colors. The results for this project were phenomenal!
     After the watercolor artwork students learned about symmetry and created symmetrical drawings that had their names repeated over and over. These turned out great also!
     Currently, sixth grade is working on making T-shirts and also designing a puzzle piece that will be put back together to create one large collaborative work of art! The puzzle artwork will be for sale at the Veterans Day event as a fundraiser for the art room and pictures of it will be posted on the blog as soon as they complete the project.

    

Examples of Op-Art:

Symmetry Artwork: