Art in Action has been very busy teaching in-class sessions at Lambton Kingsway Junior Middle School. We have had the pleasure of teaching students in grades 1, 2 and 5.
We begin our in-class sessions with a presentation of the artist that is inspiring the artwork. This week it was an American painter and photographer, Charles Sheeler. He was born in 1883 in Philadelphia. He is credited as one of the founders of American Modernism and developed a way of painting called Precisionism, that is realistic like a photograph. Students also learned what a still life means in art, a picture, drawing or painting of objects that are still and do not move. Popular still life subjects include flowers, bowls or arrangements of fruit and other inanimate objects.
During the art class we used many materials and techniques. Students learned how to use a chalk pastel for the background and smudge it into the watercolour paper for the background of the painting. They then used a variety of acrylic paints and different sized paint brushes to create the tulips, stems and leaves. We finished off the painting by working on the vase and adding a few highlights to the flowers.
They did such an amazing job!
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