As they year wound down 4th Graders finished an epic Color Theory/Value Study Unit in which we also learned about the artist Louise Bourgeois. For this unit 4th Graders learned about primary, secondary and tertiary colors, created a color wheel out of colored pencil, created a value scale out of pencil and then put them together in a color wheel/value scale spider web with value scale spiders out of pencil. For their color wheel they used primary and secondary colors "out of the tube" and mixed those colors for the tertiary colors. For their spiders they were asked to create form out of 2D. They are beautiful pieces!! Here are a few examples and some details:
3rd Graders created Six Sided Sikulis which was a fun alternative to the typical 4 sided Sikuli's. Sikuli is the name that the Wixaritari people call Ojo de Dios, in English: God's Eyes. The third graders really love this project and just love weaving so much! So many of the kids would bring in stick weavings they did at home to show me.
And then 2nd Graders studied the art of Yayoi Kusama. She is considered by many to be the most important/popular living Contemporary Artist in the world. We are lucky in Phoenix to have a permanent exhibit of hers, an Infinity Room, at the Phoenix Museum of Art. 2nd Graders loved learning about her.
We are on to a lot of fun new projects right now so I will post as they come up!
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