Birch Trees in the Fall!

This art had lots of steps, but they were worth it! First we made trees with masking tape. Some of us added branches, if we wanted. Then we painted the background with watercolours. The next day, we used sponges and paint to create leaves at the tops of our trees. Once the paint dried, we removed the tape. Then we used oil pastels to make shadows and birch bark marks on the trees.

Hope you enjoy the video:

Funky Spring Birds

This week we did art. We painted birds like James rizzi. First we had to draw a rough copy then a good copy. We traced with oil pastel and painted the bird first. Then we painted the background then we let it dry. It was pretty easy. my favorite part of my art is the bird. I rate this art 4 and a half out of five stars.

By Dax

Birch Trees in Winter: art project

Our latest art project was admired by all families during student-led conferences this week! We used tape to mask off the paper for the birch trees. Then, the sky was painted with liquid watercolours. Some students sprinkled salt to get a bit of texture. On the next day, the tape was removed and oil pastel was used to add the birch bark marks and shadow on each tree. Finally, students added snow with white acrylic paint, if they wanted.

Check out the video to see the process:

Recycled Art!

For the last few weeks we have been working on a recycled art job in honor of earth day. It was a very complicated art job so we had to break it down into four steps. The first step was to do paper Mache with ripped up pieces of paper from an old book and glue them down onto a white piece of paper using a glue and water mixture. Once the glue dried we painted a sky and grass onto the paper. And once that dried the next step was to paint a tree onto the paper using black paint. But before we went in with paint we had to sketch out a tree on loose leaf paper with branches that looked like y shapes. Then for the last step we used all kinds of pretty fabric and cut out a whole bunch of circles in small, medium and large sizes. Once we had all of our circles cut out we glued the small circles onto the medium circles and then glued that to the large circles, last but not least we would glue all the finished circles onto the tree to look like leaves. We would rate this art job 5 out of 5 slurpies!:)

By: Katie and Livia

WSO Artwork!

 We listened to a Canadian composer Jean Coulthards song “The Contented House’’ we listened to the song first then Ms. Wasney gave us a black piece of paper then we listened to the song and drew with oil pastel what the song was like. Then we could do more if we wanted to and she put on the music over about 5 times. Everyone’s art was unique. Then when we were done it was time for the painting. It was like the same thing as the pastel except this time we were using white paper and paint. I think the paint was better than the pastel because the paint had more flow to it. Then the next day after everything was dry we took name tags and wrote our names and glued it to the back of the art. Then we would choose if we wanted to put it into the WSO art pile and the rest we kept. But you could only put one of your artworks in the WSO pile. Ms. Wasney has to bring them to the WSO drop off box and they pick someone’s artwork from the class. I really hope my art gets chosen!

By: Madelynne

Monster Selfies!

We made Monster Selfies for Halloween! The stuff we used was: water to wash our paint brush, tracers for the eyes, pencil to design, sharpie to go over, water colour paper and salt.

The first step was to draw out the shape of the monsters, then we traced different sizes of eyes, then we had to trace in sharpie, then paint it. When it was dry, we brushed off the salt and we thickened up the sharpie. It was hard but easy to do. Now you can make your own monster selfie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rhyann and Dylan

Bubble Mania!

We recently did a super fun art job with oil pastels to create bubbles! The students did an excellent job on it! Be sure to take a peek at Artsonia! We're ready to float onto the next grade! Ha!

On Friday June 3^rd we made bubble art it was so fun. Here are the steps

• 1^st you trace some circles but you might want to do different sizes.
• 2^nd you trace the circles that you made with white oil pastel. You may want to add a popped bubble you need to put a glare.
• 3^rd you take different colours of oil pastels and put them on the wherever you want.
• 4^th you put your name on the back.

We feel that the art was medium – both easy and hard and that it was very fun and turned out amazing and beautiful!

By: Gina & Kaitlyn .S. 

Funky umbrellas on a rainy day!

Well, we had a student complete their "Kidblog Homework" already! Thanks to Isabella for typing up a detailed list of instructions for our latest artwork!

Be sure to take a closer peek at the art on Artsonia! Check out the process that we used to create the art in the video below . . .

This week we started our Spring artwork! It was a girl/boy with its head under the umbrella so you do not have to draw the head. 

This is how you make them.....

#1 Make a puddle and grass or just a puddle or just grass at the bottom.

 #2 Use a tracer or do a free hand sketch in pencil.

#3 Draw the jacket. If you want pockets buttons or a zipper draw it on.(if you want it to be a girl curve the bottom of the jacket or if you want it to be a boy keep it straight.)

#4 Draw the handle of the umbrella and make the girl or boys hand hold it!

#5 Draw the legs or pants.

#6 draw the rubber boots.

#7 Use oil pastels and color it in.

#8 Trace it all with black oil pastels.

#9 Paint the back-ground blue.

I think this is my favorite art we have done all year! I think this art was pretty easy!

By: Isabella

Lucky Art!

Last week we made a picture of a shamrock but not just any picture a picture of a 3D shamrock that was as simple as pie to make.

Steps:
#1. Trace a shamrock.
#2. Draw a dot under it.
#3. Draw lines with a ruler from the shamrock to the dot.
#4. Colour the shamrock in with a marker with a shade of green.
#5. Shade in between the lines with a pencil crayon with a green that looks good with the other green.
#6. Trace the outline of the shamrock and the lines in black thin tip sharpie.
#7. Repeat steps if you want to make another shamrock on page but if you do another shamrock connect the lines to the first dot. Do not make a 2nd dot.
#8 You are done!

If you want to know why I named this post luck in art it's because it looked perfect when I finished. Now that's luck in art!

By: Max

Heart Art

I really love how this art turned out! The colours and textures are beautiful! Be sure to take a closer look on Artsonia! Thanks to Laine and Katrina for explaining the art process so well. Enjoy the video!

Last week we did this art called Heart Art. There is A LOT of steps! First we a took some paper called card stock. Than you get some tissue paper and crumple it up. But make sure you don’t rip it. Then you UN crumple it and glue it to the card stock and make sure you don’t rip it. Then you let it dry. Then you paint the tissue paper and let it dry try not to rip it! After it’s dry, cut off the extra tissue paper that is hanging off the paper cut it right to the edge but not on the card stock. Then you take your favorite colour of pastel and rake the paper! But don’t use the same colour. (Have the pastel on its side that’s called raking) and then paint the heart whatever colour that you want, but don’t go to close to the top. Then let it dry and take a white and black pastel. Use the white pastel in the corner of the heart put the white on whatever side that you want. Then do a shadow on the other side of the heart with a black pastel. Then take the black pastel and do a border around the heart. And at the edge of the paper use the black pastel and go around the edge to make a border.

By: Laine and Katrina       

Frenergy!

Last week we did an art project in our class for the WSO! We were given the chance to create art that we made listening to the music that the orchestra will play in February. The song is called Frenergy, by Canadian composer; John Estacio. We think it sounds very good!  

We painted what we heard while the music played. Some people painted 2, 3, or 4 paintings! We rate this art 5 out of 5.

By Jack and Mackenzie A         

Pay special attention to the music of our video . . . it is "Frenergy" by John Estacio, the song we painted to! Look for movement and energy in each piece of art! Enjoy! You can check out our art on Artsonia! I dropped off all of the artwork at the WSO office today. Fingers crossed some pieces are picked to be featured in a slideshow during the concert!

Happy New Year!

We've had a busy couple of days, getting into the groove of school again! It was so nice to hear about everyone's adventures over the Christmas break!

We worked on some awesome art to celebrate the start of 2016. Be sure to check it out on Artsonia!

Today we got to make New Year’s firework art. We made the art by making 2016 tracers and chalk pastel. First we made tracers with hard paper and then taped it onto our paper. After that we made lines with chalk pastels (short lines). Third some of us did extra fireworks because they felt like it. Fourth we peeled off the numbers and then some people outlined it with sharpie. And then we were done. WE REALLY LIKE IT WE RATED IT FIVE STARZZZZ!!!!

• BY CARTER-B AND Dylan-H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ornaments on Pine Trees . . . colourful Christmas art!

Okay, who ever made up this art should get a standing ovation. We used oil pastels to create the whole art. First in pencil we would draw some branches and trace ornaments. Then we would go over the branches with brown pastel. Then we would draw pine needles on the branches going down. Finally we get to the fun part, making the ornaments! How we would make them is we took some oil pastels and made patterns on the ornaments. We then filled in the rest of the ornament, we had a choice of making one, two or three ornaments on your paper.

By: Katrina and Rebecca

Birch Trees in Winter . . . the prettiest art!

Making this birch tree art was really fun. Our first snowfall inspired us to make it. What we did was we got water colour paper and we cut pieces of masking tape and we cut it into shapes of trees and we also made branches. Then we pushed down the tape with all our might so the paint wouldn’t leak underneath it. After that we got water colour paint and we could either blend a few colours together or just have one colour on it I did two colours blue and purple. Then (this was optional) you could sprinkle bits of salt on it to give it that snowy look.

Then we removed the tape and did oil pastel. The first step for oil pastel was the bark, what we did is we got black pastel and put lines to resemble the black lines on birch trees. Step two was to do the shadow so we got gray pastel and on the opposite side of the black pastel we did gray to resemble the shadow on the trees from the sun or moon. 


Ms. Wasney has really good ideas for art and this was one of my favourites.

By: Carter Grace

Magnificent Moons and "Spooktacular" silhouettes . . . an awesome Halloween art job!

Last week we did our Halloween art. This is how we made it… First Ms. Wasney gave us a coffee filter and we folded it so it looked like a small ice cream cone. Then we used non washable markers to colour it so there were no white spaces. Then we used a spray bottle with no soap and sprayed it so there are no dry spots. Then we had to unfold it and peel it apart without ripping it. Then we put it on a blank piece of white paper to let it dry. Then we started to practice sketch out our Halloween themed design. Then the next day if we like our rough copy of it we had to fill it in with black sharpie. Then we had to retrace it on our coffee filter.

Happy Halloween!

By Isabella

Fall Leaves in the Wind . . . Amazing Art!

I absolutely LOVE fall! And I adore this art we did over the last 2 weeks, especially because each piece of art is totally unique. Students were asked to collect at least 5 non-crunchy leaves. We traced them onto watercolour paper, and carefully added the detail of the veins. Then, all the pencil lines were traced over with a Sharpie. Next, students used oil pastels to colour in their leaves, layering shades, if they wanted. Finally, the sky background was painted with liquid watercolours. You can see the art on Artsonia by clicking HERE. We've received loads of compliments from everyone that sees the art in the hallway!  :)

Check out the process of making this art by watching the video . . .

 

Open House BBQ

Thanks to so many families for making our first ever Open House BBQ a success! It was a beautiful night to spend outside and devour a hot dog! I loved seeing families sitting together on the grass; visiting and enjoying the playground!

If you didn't get a chance to sign up to provide treats for one of our class parties, and would like to, please contact me!

I also heard lots of "oooohs and aaaaahs" when parents saw our Name Art out in the hallway. You can check out the creativity in our Artsonia art gallery by clicking HERE.

Thanks for supporting your child's learning!

Ms. Wasney  :)

Mother's Day Art: Abstract Wildflowers

I really hope all the moms from our class and beyond had a wonderful Mother's Day! We appreciate  you more than words can say. I hope you loved the abstract wildflowers artwork as much as I did! Each one is unique; just like you. Please be sure to check out the art on Artsonia! Ms. W  :)

This week we have been working hard starting and trying to finish our Mother’s day art. We are giving our Moms a card and a framed picture of our most recent art work. The art piece that we have been working on is called wild flowers art. It is a really funky looking piece of art but still looks fabulous. Here’s what we did. Step 1 we had to splatter paint on canvas paper. It looked like a bunch of blobs but in the end everything looked good, you will see. Step 2 we had to take a thin tip Sharpie and make flower designs on the splatters of paint. There were some very creative flower designs. Some people even created a flower with super cool designs, so cool that you wouldn’t understand at first. After we were done making the flowers that first looked like odd blobs we made the stems of the flowers and some people thickened their stems, LIKE ANDREW, and some people made faces LIKE ANDREW! But it still looked great. Once we finished our art Miss Wasney put it in a picture frame and we wrapped it up with the well known, super awesome, confetti like wrapping paper. I LOVE wrapping paper. Caeden said that he loves it because it comes in all different colours at the store, and Andrew LOVES it because it comes in pink. I rate this art 5 out of 5JJJJJ. #WRAPPINGPAPERJ P.S. we also love smiley facesJJJJJ!   

By Caeden and AndrewJJ!