Welcome to the 2015-2016 school year! Things have been very busy in art so far this year, our K-5 students have been creating lots of thoughtful, beautiful and exciting works of art! To kick off the year we celebrated International Dot Day back on September 15! International Dot Day is inspired by Peter H. Reynold's book, The Dot and is all about persevering, making our mark, and being creative! These are all skills we will use thorough out the year in the art room and was a great way to jump right back into all of the excitement of making art together. All of the classes read the book, The Dot together then discussed the story before going onto work with an assortment of materials to make their own marks!
We also listed to the song version of the story as we painted, printed, collaged and more!
Different classes explored making dots with different materials to make their dots, the 5th grade explored with some mono printing, first they painted a dot on tin foil then placed paper on top of it and pressed to transfer the image onto paper.
Some classes used water colors and others made collages!
