Co-op Art

We are in our third week of co-op classes. My art classes have been going well. I am teaching one class of 4th and one class of 5/6th. Our first week we worked on portfolios and lettering. My example for the portfolio referenced two artists, Jasper Johns and Wassily Kandinsky.

We talked more about these artists the second week and looked at examples of their art, especially Johns' Numbers series and Kandinsky's "Squares with Concentric Circles". Jasper Johns is an American contemporary artist that uses common symbols such as letters, numbers, maps, flags and bullseyes in his art. Kandinsky was a Russian artist who was the first recognized abstract artist. The kids were able to make their own versions of a Johns or Kandinsky during the second week. (Some kids combined both styles into one artwork.) The third week we took time to finish up these two projects.

Below, you will see the project the upper grades did last week. Mrs. B-H had them doing chalk pastels of early Christian symbols. They were beautiful! Daughter L.'s is the blue, orange and green one.