Welcome to the Art website! 

Our students have been getting ready for the Katy ISD Houston Livestock and Rodeo Exhibit.

Kinder

The students have been practicing their drawing and cutting skills.  We start with basic shapes; circles, squares, ovals, and rectangles and they learn to cut circles from squares and ovals from rectangles.

They have also been busy learning about the color wheel. We learned that the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue.   The warm colors, (red, orange, yellow) remind us of fire and the sun.  The cool colors (purple, green, blue) remind us of the water and forest.

Kinder kids drew some beautiful owls and learned how to use tempera paints to paint them.

1st Grade

The students created splatter cows.  They splattered black paint to make the spots for their cows.  Do you know the primary colors?  The students mixed primary colors and used painting combs to make the backgrounds.  After they cut out their cows they glued them down to the backgrounds. 

2nd Grade

Do you know what a collage is?  The students made a scarecrow collage by drawing with soap on colored paper.  The areas were colored in with construction paper crayons and when finished coloring cut out the scarecrow.  A background was made using a painting roller with blue and white tempera paint.  They then cut out corn and stalks to glue down in front of the scarecrows.   

3rd Grade

The little Indians are everywhere.  Third grade created some beautiful sunsets using chalk pastels.  They used coffee filters to make Indian blankets and made Indians to wear the blankets.  These were another form of collage.  

4th Grade 

Coffee filters have been a big hit with us this year.  The students painted a coffee filter with markers to make a desert landscape.  Using a black Sharpie details were added.

5th Grade

Space Cowboys is the theme for fifth grade.  We made cowboys in space doing all kinds of things.  Some of the cowboys are fishing in the balck hole, cooking sausage on the grill, hanging from the moon playing a guitar.  We used tempera paint and crayons. 

Colorfully yours,

Suzan Soltero