April 9th
We have been very busy creating art cards. The students voted to keep their original art card and decided to display their designer art cards in a poster format. This allowed each of the students to take their original art card home to their parents. Here is a preview of our three posters that are named: "Artspiration 1", "Artspiration 2", and "Artspiration 3" . ( I must say that I learned a lot about scanning the art cards, formatting the images and printing the pictures on glossy paper, and the quality time it takes. I have another skill set now. ) We will be submitting our posters to support the up and coming Auction for the new Playground Project and for Colton's Crusaders Cancer Drive.
Your child will able to identify their work. The original art cards are signed by the artists (your child/ren) on the back. Ms. Jordan , our grade 3/4 teacher and artist, was gracious enough to let us borrow her professional sets of water colour pencil crayons. Each student used water colour pencil crayons, skinny markers and the fat smelly markers to colour their images. They loved the water colour pencil crayons. They liked going over the water colour pencil crayon areas in their work with clear water and brush to smooth out the colours. They thought it was like magic. The inspiration for these pieces of art came from their drawing books. Each day we do ten to fifteen minutes focused on drawing strategies that artists use to create images. Choices of drawing activities ranged from flowers, sea creatures, animals, skylines, and mountains. Some of the students used a Ted Harrison style to create their piece of art and others took a realism or impressionism approach. We hope you like our work.
As we engaged in activities focused on the First Nations Culture, we researched the history of Dreamcatchers. We collected information through experts at the new Downtown Library, books, articles and a recent staff Professional Day workshop focused on the First Nation's Culture. We used fishing twine, beads, and hoops to create three dreamcatchers. The third one will be completed soon. The names of these pieces are: Winter, Summer and Rainbow (still being developed).
Winter
Summer
The dreamcatchers were used to teach natural wisdom. They used twigs, sinew and feathers to create their dreamcatchers. They were created to give infants peaceful and beautiful dreams. Bad dreams cannot find their way through the web and are trapped there until the sun rises and then they dreams evaporate. Good dreams know the way to the dreamer and descend through the feathers. When a feather moves, it indicates the passage of another beautiful dream. Here are the meanings of several of the feathers........
White feathers -Protection, love, and hope
Red feathers-The colour of the source of energy
Blue feathers -Truth
Yellow feathers - Cheerfulness
Green feathers -Love
Orange feathers -Positivity
Pink feathers -Caring and friendship
See you at the Art Auction...........
