Creating art is like baking a cake; you start with the ingredients and you mix them together in a certain order to gain the best results. In art class, students are taught the ingredients for art, or what we call the elements of art (line, color, shape, texture, pattern, value and form), and how to use these ingredients/elements. Students are also taught the recipe's directions of how to compose the ingredients in their work, with the principles of art as guidelines (balance emphasis, movement, rhythm, unity and variety). First trimester, all students focus on baking art cakes with a drawing unit. Below shows what ingredient or recipe each grade level is currently using to create their masterpieces.
First grade focuses on the ingredient/element of art, line. Currently, they are creating ocean paintings using different types of lines that we practiced to give their paintings visual texture and interest.
Second grade is focusing on shape as their main ingredient, with a hint of value. They study organic and geometric shapes, and they have been creating geometric shape robots and organic shape pumpkins.
Third grade is learning about how to use the elements of value and color theory in their artwork. They learned about Pop artists like Andy Warhol and created pop art emoji drawings incorporating this color family and value knowledge in their art.
Fourth grade is learning about composing an artwork using the art principles of balance and radial symmetry. They created radial balance name designs, mandalas, or dreamcatchers.
Fifth grade is learning about composition, variety, and typography through a graffiti unit.
Sixth grade is learning about the art element called value, along with the art movement surrealism, creating dreamlike images from the imagination. They are currently in the process of shading their drawings using pencil or colored pencil to create different tints and shades to make their drawings look more 3 dimensional and realistic, even though the content is fantasy-like.
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