Art Education

Ms. Brenna’s Artists Alley

Welcome back to Ms. Brenna’s Artists Alley!  What a productive month we’ve had. It is hard to believe that the winter break is nearly upon us already!

The Grade 1/2 students are working away on their “Sometimes I feel like…” Lego Prints! With most students beginning to transfer their rough copy plans into lego board designs. Meanwhile the grade 2/3’s have finished a variety of Fruit and Veggie Relief prints. Our next step as we look towards the new year is to design some pictures that use real fruit/veggie shapes to make their art. The grade 3/4 students are moving on from their Cyanoprint monoprints. We are moving onto layered monoprints. More on this in the New Year.

Highlighted in this month’s Artist Alley are the grade 4/5’s. They are currently working on some look – drawings of the plants they harvested and used to make their home-made inks.   These beautiful plant drawings are then being painted with the inks they have made from that plant. The results as shown are some striking yet subtle sepia tone paintings.  How beautiful to see these come to finalization.

The grade 5/6’s continue cutting out their stencils for the silk screen t-shirt designs. Several of them are beginning the silk screen process and have the first couple complete layers on their t-shirts. Hopefully we can continue this momentum as we finish up these T-shirts in the new year.

With so many exciting things on the go, it is hard to believe how quickly this first part of the school year has past! I wish you and all of your loved ones a very happy holiday time, no matter how you celebrate at this festive time of year. I look forward to seeing you all back in January!

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Ms. Brenna