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| By: Andrew., 1st grade art |
Welcome to the Elementary Art Room!
Watch for weekly additions and changes. You never know who or what will
be featured. Please be sure to check out the art gallery. It takes a few extra clicks, but there are great pieces
of student work to view. Please come back for a visit.
Mrs. Linda Davis, K-12 Art Instructor
 
ONLINE Interactive Art for Kids:
NGA Kids: The Art Zone--interactive art site.
Lots of fun to create and print. Requires shockwave.
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Meet Me at Midnight--interactive art mystery
The Modrian Machine--create your
own Mondrian artwork!
Cezanne's Astonishing Apples--read
about Cezanne's life, have a book "An apple a Day" read to you online, and go "Back to basics" to work with shapes and
forms in "Things to Do."
The Artist's Toolkit--from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Discover the elements and principals of art. Waltch real artist's at work. Create your own artwork online
A Lifetime of Color--interactive art fun with Carmine the salamander.
| Primary Lines |
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| Kindergarten Art |
| Geometric Shapes--Robots |
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| 5th grade art |
| Snow Mobile Trays |
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| 1st grade art |
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Elementary Art Units:
Elements of Art
Line Unit
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Five kinds of line: Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal, Zigzag, Curved
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Line variation: Length (Long and short), Width (wide and narrow), Color, Texture, Value, Degree
of curvature
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Lines create movement, pattern, texture, and shapes
Color Unit
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Primary colors are red, yellow, blue.
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Primary colors mix to create Secondary colors.
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Secondary colors are orange, violet, and green.
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Tertiary colors are created by mixing a primary with an adjacent secondary
color.
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Neutrals are black, white , gray and brown.
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Complementary colors are opposites on the color wheel: r-g, b-o, y-v
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Analogous colors are three colors next to eachother on the color wheel.
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Warm colors are red, yellow, orange.
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Cool colors are blue, green and violet.
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Intensity is the brightness and dullness of a color.
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Value is the lightness or darkess of a color.
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Color values: Tints=white+hue, Tones=gray+hue, Shades=hue+black
Value
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The lightness or darkness of a hue.
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Shading creates variations of value.
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Chiaroscuro is the contrast of light to dark.
Space Unit
Shape/Form Unit
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Shape is two dimensional
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Form is three dimensional.
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They may be natural or man-made.
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They may be geometric or free-form.
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They may be active or static.
Texture Unit
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Texture may be actual or visual.
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Texture may be smooth or rough.
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Everything has a texture.
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Artist Units
Kindergarten--Vincent Van Gogh, "Sunflowers"
First Grade-- Grandma Moses, winter landscapes, Piet Mondrian, primary color contructions
Second Grade-- Vincent Van Gogh, "Starry Night", "Sunflowers"
Third Grade-- Henri Matisse, "Goldfish Bowl", Paul Klee, "Twittering Machine"
Fourth Grade-- Piet Mondrian, primary compositions, Henri Matisse, Free form Constructions
Fifth Grade-- American Folk Art, "Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Signs"
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Western Barry Elementary School
Barry, IL 62312
Mrs. Linda M. Davis, art instructor
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