Salem Hyde Art Display at District Office

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Art Lessons Displayed

Kindergarten

Giraffe Paintings - Students viewed and discussed folk paintings of giraffes from Tanzania. They learned how to draw giraffes using line, shape, color and pattern. The background was painted using tempera paint. A frame was made of construction paper using either printmaking or drawing to create pattern.

Sunflower Paintings - The lesson began with a Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) discussion of the sunflower paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. Students used collage techniques to create the background and vase. Pattern was used decorate the vases. Sunflowers and stems were created using tempera paint and oil pastel.

First Grade

Lion Paintings - First grade students viewed and discussed lions in paintings by Edward Hicks and Albrecht Durer. They compared the similarities and differences in the two artworks. They then learned tempera painting techniques and created their own lion paintings. They used the art elements of line, shape, color and texture in their paintings. Symmetrical balance was also incorporated in these paintings.

Second Grade

Owl Collage -  Second grade students viewed photographs of owls in their habitats. They used collage techniques to create their own owl collages. Torn paper was used to give the owls the texture of feathers.

Poison Dart Frogs - In the beginning of the lesson, students looked at photographs of poison dart frogs from the rainforest and discussed their colors and patterns. In their paintings, the children could choose to create a cool color frog on a warm color background, or a warm color frog on a cool color background. Students created pattern on their frogs by inventing their own shapes in black tempera paint.

Third Grade

Watercolor Whales - Third grade students discussed artwork depicting whales by the artists J.M.W. Turner and Rockwell Kent. They learned to draw whales in black crayon using the art elements of line and shape. The artworks were painted with watercolor paint incorporating the primary, secondary, tertiary and analogous colors.

Complementary Color Zebras - Folk paintings of zebras from Tanzania were the inspiration for this lesson. Students discussed the way that Tanzanian artists stylized depictions of zebras in their paintings. After learning how to draw zebras utilizing the art element of line, students colored their pictures using complementary colors. In the final step of the project, watercolor paint was added to the background.

Fourth Grade

Owl Print Collage - Fourth graders participated in a Visual Thinking Strategies discussion of a woodblock print, Owl in a Pine Tree, by the Japanese artist, Hiroshige. They created a printmaking plate depicting an owl on a styrofoam tray. From this tray they printed an edition of prints which were cut out and glued into a collage background showing the owl's habitat.

5th Grade

Animals of the Rainforest Biome Drawings - Part of the fifth grade science curriculum is learning about the biomes of the world. Students learned about the tropical rainforest biome by reading the story, The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry. After reading the story and discussing the illustrations, students chose a rainforest animal and created a drawing of it utilizing pastel techniques.

                                                                                                                          

History Comes Alive Through Art Finished Tiles

Here are some pictures of our finished tiles for our tile murals!

                                          Pegasus, created by a group of four sixth graders
                                          who worked together.

Greek Temple, created by a group of four sixth graders.

Minotaur, sixth grade

The Trojan Horse, by a group of 2 sixth graders

Statue of Liberty, Grade 5

Langston Hughes, grade 5

Louis Armstrong, Grade 5

Salem Hyde display at the Syracuse City School District Educational Foundation Breakfast.

The Great Migration, Grade 5

The Great Migration tile was inspired by this painting by Jacob Lawrence.

                                       
                                          Pegasus, 6th Grade



History Comes Alive Through Art

   Fifth and sixth graders are currently working on a special project entitled,
History Comes Alive Through Art. This project was made possible by a grant from the
Syracuse City School District Educational Foundation. It is an interdisciplinary lesson connecting the fifth and sixth social studies curriculum with art. The cross-curricular connection encompasses both district curriculum and Common Core Standards. Students have researched history topics related to their curriculum content and are each  producing an approximately 6"x6" tile to contribute to two large tile murals; one for the fifth grade and one for the sixth. The theme for the fifth grade is United States history and the theme for the sixth grade is Ancient Greek history.

                                          Statue of Liberty, Grade 5

 
Students began by created a drawing on a paper the same size as their tile. This drawing was then transferred onto a ceramic clay tile.

                                         
                                         Greek Temple, Grade 6

   Sixth grade students are using terra cotta clay, the same type of clay used in ancient Greece. Some students worked in groups of two or four to create larger images such as this Greek temple. Sixth graders are creating tiles with themes such as Greek gods and goddesses, myths, historical figures and other aspects of ancient Greek life and culture.

                                          The Great Migration, Grade 5

   Fifth grade students have researched and are creating tiles depicting many different aspects of United States history such as the Civil War, Underground Railroad, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights Movement, the Westward Expansion and the Women's Rights Movement. Some of the tiles depict historical figures including Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and Langston Hughes.

After transferring the drawing onto the clay tile, students created a relief sculpture of their image by adding pieces of clay. They learned that relief is a sculpture that stands out partially from the background.

   Next, glaze was added to the relief tile.

                                          Trojan Horse, Grade 6

                                         Minotaur,  Grade 6

                                        Greek Helmet, Grade 6

Owl Print Collage

       Fourth grade students created these multi-media artworks portraying owls in their habitats. The pictures combine elements of printmaking and collage. Students viewed and discussed a woodblock print of an owl by the 19th century Japanese printmaker, Hiroshige. They also looked at photographs of various species of of owls in nature.

       A printmaking plate was created using a styrofoam tray. After printing the owls using brayer and ink, a background was made using collage techniques. The owl prints were cut out and glued into the background.