Cityscape Prints

First grade students studied about artist Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of cityscapes as well as the architect John Portman and his famous hotels that he has designed in Atlanta, Georgia. Next, students created their own cityscape drawings in their art journals and used recycled objects and black paint to stamp lines and shapes to make their cityscape prints. Color was then added with chalk pastels to finish their beautiful works of art!

Youth Art Month

Congratulations to three of our Barnwell students who have artwork that is being displayed during the month of March in the Fulton County Schools Youth Art Month Exhibit at our county administrative office. Our school, and especially their art teacher, Mrs. Nail, are very proud of these talented students! This is a huge honor for these students so way to go artists!!!

Isabella

 

Sireen (left) and Evan (right)

Evan's Cubist Style Reductive Print

 

Sireen's Modigliani Style Portrait

Isabella's Chihuly Style Bowl

 

 

 

Chihuly Bowls

Second Grade students have been learning about glass sculptor Dale Chihuly in art class as well as radial symmetry. Students first drew their own radial designs and then transferred the drawings onto clear shrink film. The film was then cut out and placed into a toaster oven to create our one of a kind faux glass bowls! The students are amazed by the technique and love seeing how each piece is so unique! Such a great lesson in creativity!

Radial design before heating in toaster oven

Finished "bowl" sculpture

Radial design before heating in toaster oven

Finished "bowl" sculpture

 

  

Winter Stamping Collages

Kindergarten students were read the stories Snowmen at Night, Penguins, Penguins Everywhere, and Snowballs in art class for inspiration for these delightful winter collages. Students demonstrated printmaking through stamping techniques as well as cutting and gluing skills in this lesson.

 

 

                          

 

 

 

 

Organic Wire Sculptures

Fourth graders learned about British sculptors Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and their abstract organic closed forms as they created their own abstract sculptures. Color mixing and blending was then demonstrated by students as they completed their unique works if art.

      

 

Beverly Buchanan Shacks

First graders learned about artist Beverly Buchanan from Athens, Georgia, and her drawings, paintings, and sculptures of shacks. Using their knowledge of 3-dimensional forms, line, color, and texture, students then created their own works of art.

Scan the QR code below to read more about artist Beverly Buchanan.

 

 

 

Cubist Reductive Prints

Fifth graders learned about famous artist Pablo Picasso and his cubist portraits that combine both a profile and a frontal view. They used this technique as their inspiration as they created reductive self-portrait prints.