Early in my first year here at Garland ISD I
volunteered to put our school’s artwork on display in district offices. David Sanders, Visual Arts director had a
call out for more 2D work. As a new
teacher to the district, I was not expected to participate in the rotation for
a couple of years. But I sent him our
K-2 Dots we did for International Dot day and he fell for them like I did.
Display at the Harris Hill Administration Building.
Older students made one cut stars and others made the paper
chains for them to assemble.
Younger students help make a quilt from the negative space
“leftovers”.
Since the TAEA met in Dallas this school year,
it was a privilege to attend their annual convention just prior to Thanksgiving
break.
Selfie from the Hilton Anatole
January I led the fifth graders on our field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art!
Right before Christmas break, Mr. Viernes told me about the Garland ISD PTA upcoming contest asking students to create artwork to be put on ceiling tiles in the Baylor Garland emergency patient rooms. In January our first art lesson was called Happy Thoughts to coincide with the theme for the contest. One of our Williams’ fifth graders won a spot with her creation and she was honored along with other GISD students at the reception in the hospital.
Denise is one of the winners!
4th and 5th did construction paper ones!
Third grade team made their self portraits with tints and shades
of their team's color. Self portraits started with an oval and
laying down light lines to place where the features should go.
2nd graders finished their self portraits around Valentine's Day.
We were inspired by what we learned about playing cards!
Most were either King or Queens of Hearts!
A few were P for Princess or K for Knight!
Still on Valentine's Day, 3rd graders were the first in the school
to use air dry clay. They made hearts with a hole to string on yarn.
Many took them home to mom!
Next group up for clay was the 4th and 5th graders.
Pop Art Clay Self portraits! We learned about
Andy Warhol and he inspired our color schemes!
Up close with these three girls. You start with a
B&W photo and lay it on the clay.Transfer process.
Here are pictures of two of our kindergarteners at the annual
elementary art show on display at the South Garland library
for two weeks in April.
This proud student knows she made the two secondary colors-
green and orange by laying down and blending two of the
primary colors at a time.
This kindergartener knows the order of the rainbow
as Roy G. Biv. She made the little man, too!
She is joined by a second grader showing off
her understanding of one point perspective inspired by a
autumn painting done by Van Gogh.
This first grader also was inspired by Van Gogh in this multi-media
creation. We used pencils ands rulers to make our horizon line and to
create the one point perspective. For color we used
oil pastels, tempera paint and crayons!
Older students had printmaking artwork on display
from an abstract assignment.
Fifth grader uses the negative and positive space of hearts in her
abstract printmaking piece!
Fourth grader calls her piece 'Sleeping cat' as she took pieces
from her printmaking paper and cut them and
glued them down to make the finished piece!
This year we used watercolor as well. On this winter scene with
white birch trees, first and second graders learned about masking
paper with masking tape so the white would stay white while we paint.
Another technique we learned in this project was using salt on top of the
wet watercolor paint to see how it changed the surface of our paintings.
Most students had time to add red cardinals for a pop of color in this
cool winter scene!
