4th Quarter Wrap Up!

Art Show!

West Ridge had about 30 artists represent our school at the 2018 District Art Show! Four artists walked away with awards! Way to go Wildcats!

5th Grade Art: For the 5th graders final project they created "Snapchat Selfies." They were able to trace facial features, then they were on their own to shade and create backgrounds. 

 

4th Grade Art: 4th graders created mini-self collages. They were busy finding just the right paper and cutting details to create their portraits!

3rd Grade Art: Third graders were tasked with creating art that would welcome our student back to school next year. They made self portraits inspired by the book "Wonder." 

 2nd Grade: Second Graders created illustrations inspired by Faith Ringoldd's book "Tar Beach."

1st Grade: First graders had their first experience with clay. They created birds with lots of texture!

Kinder Art: Kinders got to show off their painting skills on their painted gardens. 

4th and 5th Grade Art Clubs: Our final art club project was a Picasso inspired mask. We used found items in the art room to add detail. 

Wow! What an amazing year!! Have a wonderful summer Wildcats!

Special Art Guests

Art Club has Two Special Guests...

The 4th and 5th grade Art Clubs had the privileged of having two guests visit us. 

The first one was Marie Gibbons. Marie is a local sculptor and teaches classes all around the Denver area. She taught the students how to trophy bugs. Marie uses the black wash method for painting, which the students loved!

Her website is: http://www.mariegibbons.com/ 

 Our other special guest comes right from Brighton. Jim Peters is the proprietor of Main Street Creatives Galleryand heads up the Art Academy of Colorado, which offers a variety of art classes for kids and adults. Jim came and did a animation demo on the computer. Then the students made Zoetropes as their own animation.

His websites are: https://theartacademyofcolorado.com/  
http://www.mainstreetcreatives.com/

Second Quarter Amazing Art

Amazing Art!

Kinders have been hard at work creating color wheels. They have been exploring how to mix colors and painting basics. 

We got our inspiration from the book Mouse Paint. After break we will create color wheels. 

1st graders have been hard at work creating Story Collages. These are inspired by Ezra Jack Keats books, who uses collage and drawing to create his stories. The first graders came up with a story with a setting and characters. Then then painted their backgrounds. They created a collage on top of their backgrounds to match their stories. Then then drew and attached their characters!

 2nd Graders have been exploring the elements of art: texture, shape, color, line, and form. They will create a piece of their choice using all the elements after break. So far they have used, line, color and texture. 

 

3rd Graders have been using teamwork and problem solving skills to plan and create murals for our school. They had to come up with a message and target group. Then they drew out their ideas. After break they will be drawing and painting the murals to hang up around our school. 

4th Graders just finished a fan favorite: Pinch Pot Creatures! They learned how to form their creature and add details in clay. They are painting them with lots of colors and details!

 
5th Graders finished up their favorite medium projects a few weeks ago. They were able to choose their favorite medium to work in and their subject matter.