Bacich Elementary Art Blog

TK: Winter Landscape with Bluebird With this winter landscape art project Transitional Kindergarten students explored texture painting for the bark and branches of birch trees. Students practiced scissor cutting, as well as gluing skills. Students created the blue bird out of one circle, cut in half, four and eight parts.  Using colored pencils, students added details to their personalized birds.  The Bluebirds are sometimes confused with other blue birds, but they can be distinguished without difficulty. The western bluebird has a blue (male) or gray (female) throat, the eastern bluebird has an orange throat, and the mountain bluebird lacks orange color anywhere on its body. It has a stocky build, and a thin straight beak with a fairly short tail. Its posture consists of perching upright on wire fences and high branches. The western bluebird pounces on the ground when looking for food, such as worms and berries. It also flies to cat...

Kindergarten:  Tree of Life inspired by Gustav Klimt Our Kindergarten students were introduced to the Austrian “Art Nouveau” painter Gustav Klimt (born in 1862). Klimt had created many world famous paintings such as “The Kiss” and the painting the Kindergarten students were introduced to called “Tree of Life”. Gustav  Klimt painted the Tree of Life, during his Golden Era of as seen by the extensive use of the golden color on this piece.  Gustav Klimt’s decorative art nouveau stile, with his use of colors and abstract shapes, is full of symbolism and can be interpreted in so many ways.   1st   GRADE:  Polar Bear Portraits To start this lesson we did a read aloud of the book: White Bear, Ice Bear by  Janne  Ryder. We also researched some polar bear facts, and found out that  polar  bears have black skin, and a group of polar bears is called a celebration!  Using white chalk on black construct...