Erickson Art February 2025

 February has been a fun month for art at Erickson as we work our way toward a clay unit coming up in the next few weeks. We once again have been working this year to bridge what the students are learning in the homeroom class with what we are learning in art class.  


In Kindergarten we had a busy month. We started off by doing a Romero Britto inspired Valentine Heart project and are now reviewing weather with a silly drawing inspired by the book "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs"  by Judi Barrett. 



First grade spend some time creating some incredible solar systems with their own chalk pastel planets. These really turned out to be amazing! Our sweet first graders are now working on a super secret first step to an upcoming clay project (this is sure to be a sweet gift for the family). 



Second graders spent some time doing valentines lessons inspired by artist Chris Uphues and are now finishing up with their Ghanaian Kente Cloth inspired paper weavings. 




Third grade has been working very hard learning about symmetry and specifically radial Symmetry. They are taking their time to create super cool optical illusion using their own name. I have been really proud of the hard work of these amazing third graders. 




fourth grade has been taking some time to explore various art blending techniques as they learn about gemstones. Students have been blending different gemstones with different art tools. We have used colored pencil, oil pastel, watercolor, acrylic paint and crayons to create these super cool gemstones. Next week we will begin designing their big clay piggy banks that we will spend the month of March working on. 



Fifth grade has been studying the great renaissance artists in their homeroom class as well as the concept of perspective. We have combined these two topics and are digging a bit deeper in the art room and are having students create their own museum by using one point perspective. They will then add either their own artwork or artwork of their favorite artists they have learned about in this renaissance unit. Up next students will begin their bobble head clay project!





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