3rd grade student in the Art Museum

Owen Combes, 3rd grade

March is Youth Art Month.  The Portland Museum of Art celebrates our state’s young artists by hosting a show of selected pieces, Kindergarten through 12^th grade.  Our school is represented by third grader Owen Combes.  Owen, along with over a 100 young artists in the state, will have his painting of a castle hung for the month of March.  Every Friday evening from 5-9pm the museum is free to the public!  If you get a chance, please check out the show and see the whole museum and the wonderful collections of art we have to look at right here in Maine.

Kindergarten Pinch Pots

The students made pinch pots to begin exploring with clay.  A pinch pot is one of the most basic forms of pottery and involves several skills that students need to use as they continue working with clay in later years.  We looked at many pictures of pottery made by different artists, past and present.  They discovered that clay comes from the earth and that the pots are fired in a kiln.  They each took a peak at the kiln here at school and thought it was really cool.  After these were dried and fired, they used colorful glossy glazes to decorate them.

 

A collection of Kindergarten pots waiting to be sorted!  Aren't they beautiful?

1st Grade Totem Pole Books

Emily, Mrs. Allen's class

The students looked at North Pacific Totem Pole art for inspiration.  They each chose either a bird or a four legged mammal for this project to make the top of their totem pole.  After the sections were constructed and paper mache’, they were painted using specific colors relevant to totem pole art. 

          

After these were sculpted, the students turned their totem pole into an accordion book.   The pages show different animal faces.

They are learning about:

          -Native American art

          -paper mache’

          -totem poles

Elements of Art: line, shape, form, color

Emily's opened

Mrs. Cole's class

Mrs. Cole's class

2nd Grade House Sculptures

Aidan, Mrs. Peavey's class

Each used clay to sculpt the façade, or “face” of their home.  They used slabs, flat pieces of clay, and pressed in textures to look like the building materials used to construct their house.  After the pieces were fired in the kiln, the students used acrylics to paint them.

They learned about:

            -new clay techniques

            -painting on clay

            -facade

Elements of Art used: form, shape, texture, line

Finn, Mrs. Peavey's class

Rylee R., Mrs. Peavey's class