Picasso One Liners

The 4th grade began the year by looking at Pablo Picasso's One Liners and trying their hand at drawing animals while keeping their pencil on the paper the whole time. They experimented with creating texture by varying their lines. Students had the option of adding color or leaving them outlined in sharpie. Through out the project we continued to look at examples of Picasso's work and read a few books about him including Just Behave Pablo Picasso, and Picasso and the Girl with a Ponytail. 

Welcome to Artventure. This blog is designed to give you a peek into the happenings in our elementary school art room. I hope you will visit from time to time to see what projects we are working on, the artists we are learning about, to get referrals for great books about artists and much much more! The art room is a wonderful and joyous place to spend everyday and I hope by visiting our blog you will get to experience some of the joy too!

Above is the main bulletin board in the art room that is tracking our Artventure throughout the year! When we learn about a new artist, we add an image of their work with a string drawing a line to where the artist is from.

Most classes have art once a week but a few have the fantastic opportunity to have it twice a week. The majority of our lessons are based around the elements and principals of design and are tied to artists. However I frequently work collaboratively with other teachers in the building to make connections to other curriculums including beginning to generate STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) based projects. It is always a work in progress and we are always striving to foster a love of learning, critical thinking, problem solving skills and of course a life long enjoyment of the arts.