Harrington Art Class, Chelmsford

Monday, April 16, 2018

Primary Color Collage - Grade 1

Primary Color Collage in the style of Henri Matisse, Grade 1

Matisse working on a cut-out in his studio in Vence, 1947 (Financial Times).

Samples of our 1st Grade student artwork.

Check out this video of "Matisse's Cutouts" at the Tate Modern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLgSd8ka0Gs

The Snails (1953) by Henri Matisse

Author, Rob Buyea came to visit our 4th Grade!

Here are a couple of banners we created in the art room with Ms. Sullivan's class:

Mr Buyea with our Interim Principal, Ms. Tobin stand at center, surrounded by our wonderful fourth grade Team

Our students were all spellbound by Mr. Buyea's great storytelling skills as they were with his writing style!

Let this be the last snow you see this winter!

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Grade 1 stayed warm while creating these exquisite snow people - enjoy!

And here is a wonderful banner made just before the holidays by Ms Prussack's class

Mask Making as Abstraction, Invention and Expression - Grade 4

Mask Making in Fourth Grade

One of my favorite lessons in the year is mask making with my fourth graders! It's hard to describe the creative atmosphere in the art room when all my students are engaged in their own sculptural creations using paper pulp, paint and all the other materials at hand in my cupboards. So much fun for me!

I was especially impressed this year by the wide range of solutions to the problem presented. I told my students that they had to change the "form" of their paper mold in some way. Simple! The beauty of this material is that students can proceed at their own skill level while finding success in self-expression. Motivation for this project began with "Masks of Many Cultures" DVD.

We worked on studio habits of mind by experimenting with lots of different possible solutions, being diligent with craftsmanship and being sensitive to knowing when to stop.

Here are a few of our wonderful creations!

We would love to hear any comments you'd like to share!

Grade 2 Explores the Color Wheel while creating one of their own!

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Fun in the Art Room with Grade 2

How about learning color in song, video and play dough manipulation! Our 2nd graders can now identify their primary colors after learning our "Primary Song", but we also learned our secondaries by mixing two primaries and placing them correctly on a color wheel. We watched this YouTube video to engage and motivate all learners https://pin.it/swatt54nijbusuf

The Color Song
"Primary, primary, Red, Yellow, Blue,
All the other colors are made from you!

Secondary, secondary Orange, Green and Purple,
Place them in-between - we can make a big circle!

Color wheel, color wheel around we go,
All that luscious color makes the rainbow!

I devised a way to show my students that our water color pallets are in the order of the color wheel. The beads above are cut from pool noodles.

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Our 2018 District-wide, Youth Art Month opening date has been rescheduled to ~

Wednesday,

March 14th, 5 - 7pm

Harrington Artists chosen for our
~ 2018 Youth Art Month Show ~

K - Ryan Gladius

K - David Mathew

G1 - Camilla Marsach

G1 - Brenna Ayoub

G2 - Ben Friesner

G3 - Sara Bannerman

G4 - Brianna Cairns

G4 - Max Russo

2nd Grade "Art Dolls"
Trevor Bates, Isabella DeOliveira, Sophia Lin, Tristan Silva, Amber Talbot

Family Reception at Adams Library
Wednesday,

March 14th from 5 - 7pm

(Refreshments will be served!)

I hope everyone can find time to stop by the Adams Library during the month of March to see inspiring work from all grade levels throughout our Chelmsford schools!