Week of 1/16/23 - 4th and 5ths - Clay and Digital art

 4ths returned this week and painted their Batik projects from last week. We used watered down acrylic paint - I demonstrated how to paint over the glue lines and cover the entire fabric with color. Each 4th grade class had 3 colors. We will wash the fabric next rotation to reveal the bug in white!!

4th grade students also created public art digital explorations! After looking at examples of public art from around the world and having a class discussion about what we noticed and wondered, students created Kusama-style mushrooms on Sketchpad, varied and repeated sizes. They superimposed them on photographs of places in our school's neighborhood - parks, libraries, and a coffee shop! It was neat to see what images students picked and why it was important to them.

 

5th graders worked on CLAY! They created spoons incorporating coil and pinch technique as well as additive and subtractive processes. They also used scoring and slipping to add decorations. There is so much learning in one lesson and I love seeing how unique each piece is!!

I gave each student a chunk of clay that they wedged and changed into a sphere. Next we sprayed our fabric with water and rolled out the clay into a cylinder the length of a plastic fork. We used a pinch technique to start creating the curved part of the spoon on one end of the cylinder and pinched the handle to make it long. Students had the option to make the handle curved, spiral or leave it as is. They then used score and slip method to add decorations or use the carving tool, pencil tool and/or  fork to remove clay using a subtractive technique.

 I plan on having students glaze pieces this year!