Art in First Grade
The elements of art and principles of design are reinforced throughout the year through students exploring and engaging with a variety of projects. Exploration of combining art media is reinforced through students experiencing projects that require different media. Various artists continue to be explored in connection with projects.
Students will:
- Practice cutting, gluing, folding and the current placement of objects.
- Understand and practice with one and two-point perspective.
- Engage with imaginative use of color in an expressionistic composition.
- Enhance their painting skills by being introduced to the double-loading technique of blending colors in paint.
- Understand the concept of positive and negative space, as well as contrast, on all their projects.
- Practice their printing skills through a mixed media project.
- Understand and practice with three-dimensions in various media, including clay and paper, as well as use overlapping in composition to achieve the illusion of three-dimensional space.
- Understand the concept of symmetry while using mixed media in artistic composition.
- Understand multiple artistic techniques through exposure to a variety of artists and styles in conjunction with their self-made projects.
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