Pinch Pot Animals

First grade students used pinch pots and a variety of hand building techniques as they created a variety of clay animal forms in art class.

 

 

 

 

O'Keeffe Inspired Flowers and Leaves with Percolator App

4th grade students first studied the life and artwork of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Students studied images of flowers and leaves and created their own close up drawings using water soluble oil pastels. Next, students uploaded their drawings into the Percolator app using iPads in the art classroom to create these fabulous digital art images!

Johns Creek Holiday Card Contest

Seven of our talented Barnwell artists' holiday card contest submissions were chosen as part of the 2013 City of Johns Creek Holiday Card. Congratulations to our students on your success!

Eric Carle Collages

Kindergarten students learned about illustrator Eric Carle and how he makes his collages for his book illustrations. Students then created their own painted papers while exploring color mixing and texture. Next, the student made papers were used to create students' own collages inspired by Eric Carle's storybook characters.

       

       

Starry Night Collages

Second grade students learned about artist Vincent Van Gogh and his landscape paintings including the famous painting, Starry Night. Students then used their knowledge of perspective to create a community collage using details to tell a story about their scene.

Zoes Kitchen Community Art Exhibit

Twenty-four of our talented Barnwell students participated in a special art display this fall at Zoes Kitchen restaurant on Haynes Bridge Road. Here are some photos of students who attended our opening reception as well as students with their canvas paintings they created.

Pop Art Portraits

Fourth graders learned about British pop artist Andy Warhol and his paintings and screenprints of popular everyday objects as well as his portraits of celebrities. Students then created their own pop art inspired styrofoam prints while exploring color theory, repetition, and proportion in their art.

                                        

 

                                        

Modigliani Inspired Portraits

Third grade students learned about Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani and his stylized portraits. Students shared their opinions about the emotions the artist showed with his famous tilted heads, elongated necks and hollow eyes of his subjects. Students then created either a portrait of another person or a self-portrait using some of the same stylized elements of Modigliani's work.

       

 

 

 

Kandinsky Paintings

First grade students learned about active and calm lines in art class and created their own active lines paintings while listening to a variety of jazz music. Next, they demonstrated their knowledge of mixing the primary colors to create secondary colors as they painted inside the shapes they created. Students also learned about the Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky during this lesson on lines and color.