In the whole 5th grade we have been finding pictures of animals and drawing them in black and white. However, we didn't just start drawing a play dog standing in a land of grass, we had to base our drawings off the picture of the animals we chose. Here are some requirements for this project:
  • We had to have value, but not the money kind. Value is how light or dark an area in your drawing is.
  • We needed to draw the animal so it looked realistic so it didn't look like 2 un-even eyeballs, an oval body, and a weird looking tail. It needed to look like you took a picture of the animal and just outlined it with a sharpie.
  • Before we started this project Mrs. Minnick taught us 6 different techniques and we had to use 3 of them in our drawing. These were the 6 techniques:Cross-hatching, hatching, stipple, squiggles, and zig-zag.
  • In our pictures, we all had a background and it was very important that we had the exact background in our picture.
  • When we were creating our drawings we had a certain piece of paper that was a certain size, and when we were drawing we had to make sure our drawing wasn't too big or too small.
  • The last requirement we had to have was texture. This goes along with the requirements of being realistic and texture. Each animal everyone chose had a different type of fur, feathers, etc. So we had to use different techniques to make sure the fur looked realistic.
  • Lets not forget that every student had to have PRIDE IN THEIR WORK! Pride in work is when someone actually tries to have their drawing look nice and neat! By the look of all of the drawings I'm pretty sure everyone had pride in work.

Written By: Alex Gregory
 
We have had a busy few weeks with assemblies at school, the holidays and now outdoor school. When we have been able to have our regular art class, 5th graders have been working on a project to address the big idea: Art can teach us about other cultures and time periods.

They learned about Native American kachina dolls and are working on creating one of their own. Check out our progress!
Some final products!
 
We learned how to use 1 point perspective to learn how to make realistic drawings. We used vanishing point, horizon line and we had to add Autumn details.  Math was included in this technique by knowing how to use a ruler correctly and how to use angles to make the house connect to the vanishing point. 
Melanie Boschen(Tack), Photographer and Reporter
Alexis French(Tack), Photographer and Reporter
 
Kandisky was a very expressive man. If you  looked  at his paintings with another  person you would not see the same thing. You would almost think he was a little kid because of the way he explored color. The requirements for our project were to include at least 4 tertiary colors, pride in work, be thoughtful, variety,  lines,shapes,colors - and to be expressive! 
Post by Ruby Williams Grade 5 Leard
 
At first some students were not too thrilled about the theme of reptiles for their fundraiser project. I chose this theme because I knew it would give students the opportunity to explore colors and practice creating colors from the tertiary color family (yellow-green, red-orange, blue-green...). I think they didn't like the theme because they thought it was too difficult. I am very pleased with the results and students were too. They were very proud of their drawings!
Photographs taken by Melanie Boschen Grade 5