6th+Grade

=6th Grade =

===During the sixth grade year George Wolf students will begin to utilize their refined artistic skills through independent and creative projects. ===

=== Lessons include proportion and portraits, sculpture, painting, color theory, global art, mathematical and linguistic integrations, and critical thinking activities. The students will also participate in classroom discussions, brain storming sessions, and observations of famous/historic artworks. ===

===The goals of my sixth grade curriculum are to strengthen the student's fine motor skills to an advanced point as well as improve their problem solving and independent thinking techniques. I place a high importance on encouraging students to take personal confidence in their artwork during this age. ===

Sixth Grade Projects 2010

The sixth grade discussed and observed paintings by the French artist __Georges Seurat __. He is most famous for his dot style of painting called __Pointillism __. Here are two of the paintings that the sixth grade observed. They discovered that the millions of dots of paint that Seurat used were mixed __optically__ by the viewer.

Here is a great video of some of the completed pointillism projects: media type="custom" key="5746169" align="center"

Plaster Masks

The sixth grade created these colorful masks using strips of __ plaster __. After laying the wet strips of plaster over a plastic face mold, the students waited for it to dry. After the masks were dry, the students painted them with tempera paints and adorned the masks with feathers and sequins. Enjoy! media type="custom" key="5746049" align="center"

Value Scales + Spheres <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sixth grade students have just started a new project about __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 168%;">value __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> and __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 168%;">shading __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">__.__ They created a gird on a square pieces of paper and then traced round tracers for the __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 168%;">spheres __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">. Next, the students began shading __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 168%;">value scales __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> in each of the squares of their grid system. Next, the students colored in the __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 168%;">spheres __<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">, creating one light course, with colored pencils. The students then mounted their own projects using two pieces of paper and a hole punch.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Here is a slide show of some finished projects. media type="custom" key="5618165"

<span style="color: #0058ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 142%; text-align: center;">Van Gogh Style Drawings <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">

The sixth grade has just completed a study on <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">Vincent Van Gogh <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">. After observing <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">landscape <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">paintings by Van Gogh, the students participated in a guided <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">drawing <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> practice. They discovered how they can thoughtfully draw lines in order to dipict <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;"> dark <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;"> and <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">light <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">. [i.e. lines that are far appart appear lighter than lines that are closer together] After the practice, the students chose a black and white photo copy of one of Van Gogh's paintings. They looked at the <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 144%;">lines <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%;">and the different types that were present. Then each student used their newly aquired skill to create a drawing, with marker, in the style of Vincent Van Gogh. media type="custom" key="6167571" align="center"