What is art?

Art is a language that artists use to express ideas and feelings that everyday words cannot express.
Throughout time, the arts have been essential to human existence. When people create in images, they discover ways to shape and share their thoughts and feelings with others. The arts enrich quality of life. All students deserve access to the arts through creation, performance and study. The fine arts are fundamental ways of knowing and thinking. In addition to their intrinsic value, the arts contribute to children's development.
Works of art are some of the highest achievements of civilization. In school, students learn the language of the arts and how to interpret visual images. Because the arts are both universal and culturally specific, they are a powerful means of increasing international and intercultural awareness. Through the arts, students gain a greater understanding of their own cultural heritage, as well as a sense of the larger world community.
Source: isbe.net

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Shelly the Turtle, with a shell full of patterns!


Today we started a project that the children will be working on for two class periods. We began by drawing turtles (in honor of Shelly, the class pet) using permanent black marker. Then after having a discussion about what constitutes a pattern, the children divided the shell into sections and added patterns to each section.



The next step was to color the turtles using watercolor colored pencils. These pencils are almost magic because you use them like colored pencils, but then brush on water, and they turn into watercolor paints!




During our next art class, we will use crayons and construction paper to create an aquarium scene for our turtles. Stay tuned!

(Happy winter break!)

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