Vincent Van Gogh "Cypresses" 1889

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City

Close up of painting

Look at the brush strokes

2011 Art Show

SPRING EXHIBIT

PAINTED BUTTERFLY

BASKET OF MARIGOLDS

FALL EXHIBIT

WINTER EXHIBIT

OP ART

DRY BRUSH PALM TREE PAINTINGS

STRING ART

PASTELS

DR. SEUSS EXHIBIT

2ND GRADE SHEEP

1ST GRADE HENS

KINDERGARTEN PIGS

WATERCOLOR

VAN GOGH INSPIRED

NOTANS

KINDERGARTEN'S BEE'S AND BEARS

SUNSET CANVAS PAINTING

FALL CANVAS PAINTING

BEACH CANVAS PAINTING

CLAY DUCKS

May's Mystery Masterpiece

Hint:   This artist was born in Ostend, Belgium, on April 13 1860 and — except for three years spent at the Brussels Academy, from 1877 to 1879 — he lived in Ostend all his life. In the 1880's, this artist style changed to a mixture of symbolism and expressionism. He took his subject matter principally from Ostend's holiday crowds. Portraying individuals as clowns or skeletons or replacing their faces with carnival masks.

Link to explore:

www.expressionism-in-art.org/artist-page-James+Ensor.html

April's Mystery Masterpiece Correct Answers

Artist: Marsden Hartley

Title: “New Mexico Landscape” 1919



1st grade Salt Dough Insects

We made salt dough in 1st grade. All students measured and mixed the ingredients.

Salt Dough Recipe

1 ½ cups flour

1 ½ cups salt

Scant 1 cup of water

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Mix flour and salt. Gradually add water and mix together. Add vegetable oil and mix. Sprinkle flour on work surface. Knead the flour mixture until firm. Wrap mixture in plastic wrap and place in plastic bag and place into the fridge for 30 minutes.


Roll the salt dough out on floured surface and floured rolling pin. Use cookie cutters to make your designs.


Leave the salt dough to harden at room temperature for several days. When dried you may paint with paint. You may bake them in the oven for 4 hours at 225 degrees.

 We used insect cookie cutters to cut out our salt dough.

Baked them in the oven for 4 hours at 225 degrees.

Then we painted them.

The students used alot of spring colors to paint with.

This bee is very colorful!

Look at those pretty purple eyes on that ladybug.

When dried we will varnish them to protect them.



April's Mystery Masterpiece

Hint: This was an American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist of the early 20th century. He was born in Lewiston, Maine,USA. he is a member of the regionalists, a group of artists from the early to mid 20th century that attempted to represent a distinctly “American Art”.
He began his art training at the Cleveland Institute of Art after the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1892.


Link to explore:
www.scholarsresource.com/browse/artist/582

March's Mystery Masterpiece Answers

Artist: Robert Gwathmey

Title: "Children Dancing"