3rd grade artists
Royal Self-Portraits- description coming soon!
Weaving- description coming soon!
Optical Illusion Art- description coming soon!
Monochromatic Fish! Students learned a lot about tints, shades, and mixing paints. They learned that tint is adding white to a color and a shade is adding black to a color. They soon discovered how many different tints and shades they could mix. First was drawing their fish. They talked about the simple shapes that could be used to draw a fish. When they were drawn, it was right onto painting with tempera paint. They got to pick a "base" color which could be any color of the rainbow. They started by mixing tints. Taking white and adding their base color, more base color, and more base color to keep making the tint darker. Once about half of their scales were painted with tints it was onto shades. They took their base color and added a tiny bit of black, more black, and more black and watched the shade get gradually darker. They could paint the face, tail and fins any color or pattern they wanted. This project took great painting skills and brush control. We really talked about loading the brush with paint, sneaking up on those lines, and pulling the brush. Pulling the brush creates nice, smooth lines, unlike the spiky lines we get when we push the brush. Pushing the brush also gives it a bad hair day and we like our brushes to have good hair days. At the end of the project I loved looking at all of the fish and seeing all of the fun personalities and characteristics the fish had. Some were very serious, some were curious, some were very happy, and some were a little mean looking. All of these different expressions and details show the unique creativity of each student.
Please refer to the project below for more information on Tap Taps. Once the students were complete with their 2D paper Tap Tap, they went on to make a clay Tap Tap. Some of the details are outstanding!
Haitian tap taps have been the buzz in 3rd grade! 3rd grade watched a video about Haitian tap taps and learned more about the culture and their use. Tap taps are Haiti’s taxis, but they are bright and beautiful. Unlike our stereotypical yellow cabs that we know, Haiti’s tap taps are decorated with the drivers interests and a fun sense of color. The students first made a list of their interests, turned them into pictures, drew their tap tap, and colored. Just looking at the tap tap you could see what the students were interested in. They also used an incredible amount of bright colors! These tap taps turned out amazing and can be seen displayed on a road in the 3/4 pod. Play the slideshow below to see some of the students' tap taps.
3rd grade students learned about African American and Native American cultures and why these cultures use masks. They then made their own symmetrical mask. Students created masks that represented animals and had human representations.