Art Smart – Creativity in the Fall Season

Madison students used their Art Smart moments to create fine fall works of art now on display in the student gallery.

• Kindergarten friends created a pumpkin patch utilizing the printmaking skills of Albrecht Durer.  
• Grade one students explored Georges-Pierre Seurat’s concept of pointillism to create solid space of color, fall leaves, using dots of two or more colors in an area.
• Super second graders worked magic with magazine photos and clippings to create their own masterpiece using the Romare Bearden concept of collage. Collage seems easy; placing and arranging layers of paper, paint and subjects on a piece of paper, but it can be a hard concept to grasp. They did a super job.
• Friends in grade three focused on a fall leaf project following techniques from Andy Warhol who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
• Pablo Picasso was one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, as well as the co-creator of Cubism. Students in grade four enjoyed this abstract style when creating witches.
• Our fifth graders learned some fabulous 3D drawing tips to make their pumpkins projects jump off the page.

Principal picks for this month are:

Zion Reed – Kindergarten

Lyla Frick – Grade One

Allison Schmidt – Grade Two

Nora Radar – Grade Three

Delia Heet – Grade Four

Kandice Ernspberger – Grade Five