Primary Art

Students in the K-1  art class with Mrs.Gardner began the year with an opportunity to really look at mirrors to see how their unique features line up to create their unique selves.  Children experimented with modeling clay to make clay balls, clay coils, clay spirals and clay slabs to reproduce their features on paper heads.   They later drew their faces on the heads with markers and are now creating box sculptures of their whole bodies utilizing those paper heads.  They are looking at the box sculptures by the Spanish sculptor Marisol and learning about shape versus form as well as balance as they figure out which boxes to use to get their sculpture to stand in space.   Soon they will be painting their sculptures and adding paper, yarn, and other collage materials to complete the appendages, hair, and hands.