March is Youth Art Month!!

Students are creating wonderful works of art and photos will be up soon.
The HCPS Annual Youth Art Month Exhibit is on display at the Massanutten Regional Library in downtown Harrisonburg.  We have about 20 students from Smithland with artwork displayed. The show will be up until April 11th.

Smithland Artists in Action!

 3rd Grade is learning about the art of mud cloth from Mali!

2nd Grade is learning about secondary colors.  They have created a color wheel and are now learning how to draw from observation.  They will paint these drawings using secondary colors.

 1st Grade is learning about the primary colors and the artist Kandinsky.

Kindergarten is learning about cool rainy colors and sunny warm colors.  

January 2013

4th Graders are in the process of creating seascape paintings after learning about Picasso's blue period and looking at one of his seascapes.  They are also learning how to create tints and shades by mixing white and black with the blue paint.  They are off to a great start!

Our Current Projects

 

 4th Graders are creating space collages! They painted sheets of paper with various colors and added texture using different objects.  After creating this paper and a dark background, they are now in the process of collaging the paper to create the planets and other details. They are also learning about how to create an interesting composition. 

3rd Graders are in the process of creating a Greco-Roman town.  They are working collaboratively to create one artwork showing a variety of buildings and details with the style of architecture from Greece and Rome.

2nd Graders are in the process of creating a Native American parfleche, or "pouch".  They prepared brown paper bags to resemble rawhide by crumpling them and then we ironed the paper.  Now the students are drawing and painting their designs.  Next week we will add beads, feathers, and tie the pouch together using string.

 1st Graders are finishing their "Wild Things Collage."  They are creating this artwork based on the book Where the Wild Things Are.  Students have created their own wild thing and drawn it's habitat.

 

Kindergartners are creating a winter landscape and learning about the artist Grandma Moses.  They used two shades of blue to paint their creative sky.  They are now creating artistic evergreen trees, using a variety of shapes and lines.

Pre-K has completed their shape paintings.  The first day we learned about painting procedures and painted a variety of shapes.  The next day we drew shapes and lines on top of the painting.

Art to Remember Projects

For the last week and a half we have been working on artwork for our Art to Remember Fundraiser.  

4th Graders have created underwater scenes with watercolors.  

3rd Graders have created modern landscapes using oil pastels.

 2nd Graders created landscapes showing details and depth.

 Kindergartners created flowers.

 1st Graders created multiple flowers from a bird's eye view.

Kindergarten Robots!

Kindergartners have been learning about shapes and how to take care of the art materials this fall! Here are some delightful shape robots they have created.

Art Club is starting soon

Art Club will start next Wednesday October 3rd! We will begin with painting the snowplow for the city of Harrisonburg, then we will create some large scale artwork after that!