3rd Grade- Stone Paintings

We learned about people from many cultures who use natural resources for art. Artworks made from natural resources can serve both functional and decorative purposes. Our stone paintings are simply decorative.

The stone paintings we have made are inspired by prehistoric artworks, such as cave paintings. Without altering their natural shape, we have transformed our stones into beautiful art works.
ART ROCKS! Just ask a third grader!

3rd Grade- Mexican Foil Tooling

We learned about the art of foil tooling from many cultures and time periods. With Cinco de Mayo rapidly aproaching, we've decided to celebrate Mexico through our artworks. After evaluating the use of symbols in Mexican culture, we chose symbols to represent different festivities, foods, and historical events of Mexico.

We planned ahead for our symbols by sketching out what we wanted our designs to look like. It's always a great idea to have a game plan.

We used wooden tools to push and pull pieces of foil to give our symbols form. We used permanent markers to give them color. These images are a low-relief sculpture. Aren't they maravillosa?!

A.C.E. - Plaster Mask Portraits

This project was our magna opus or “big work” in ACE this semester.  We used plaster gauze and plaster of paris to create these 3-D portraits. 

We discussed the beauty of the human face. There is not only one kind of beautiful.  Even though there are many different colors, and sizes of facial features, and hairstyles, they are all wonderfully made.  

Some of these artworks are self-portraits, while others are in honor of people we admire.

A.C.E. - Papier-mâché Lanterns

We used colored tissue paper, wheat paste, colored wire and a balloon for this festive project.

Our lanterns are not unlike those that you might see during a Chinese New Year celebration.

A.C.E. - 3-D Collage Boxes & Scrap Paper Collages

3-D Collage Boxes

Collage is overlapping paper.  For this project, we recycled tissue boxes and cut symmetrical shapes out of construction paper.  We overlapped the paper and voila!

Scrap Paper Collages 

Not a single piece of paper was wasted in these projects.  We used the shapes that we cut out for the 3-D collage boxes to create a second collage.  Can you tell which scraps came from which box?

A.C.E. - Cave Paintings

We heard a true story about how, not too long ago, four children in France discovered a cave full of paintings that were over 15,000 years old. 

Cave people did not have art supply stores, so they had to make their own paint.  We did too! We were scavengers and found different things outside to mix together to make our paint. Our paint is made of finely crushed dirt, grass, flowers, and leaves.

Miss Frerking turned the art room into an underground cave system, and we had to crawl under tables to paint on the inside of the dark cave walls.  These paintings have been extracted for you too see.

 

A.C.E. - Straw Blown Color Mixing

For this project, we learned about the primary and secondary colors in a fun way! 

 We dripped the primary color paint- red, blue, and yellow- on our papers and used straws to bloooooow the paint.  The paint ran together to make secondary colors- green, orange, and violet.