HMS Gallery

Gardner Public Schools

Art Department

Helen Mae Sauter School Art Gallery

2003-2004

The following are selected pieces of artwork by students in grades 1, 2, and 3. If you would like to see the artwork of HMS students from other years, click on the following links: 2004-2005, 2002-2003, and 2001-2002.

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Ruth Suyenaga, Art Teacher

Learning about Chinese New Year dragons

In this multicultural and interdisciplinary lesson, students viewed a video on the way Chinese New Year is celebrated in New York’s Chinatown. They studied prints and pictures of dragons and used their imagination to draw and paint their own dragon.

Standards: 1.1 Variety of materials, 2.1 Color, 2.3 Texture, 2.4 Shape, 3.2 Abstraction, 3.3 Memory and imagination, 8 Concepts of style-historical periods, cultures and genres, 10 Interdisciplinary learning (social studies and art)


*Erika*	Kayla	*Connor*	*Douglas*

Chayne

Daniel

Jeong-Ki



*Jozef*	*Kaitlin*	*Joey*


*Stephanie*	*Tiffany*

Lesson on landscape and the style of Vincent Van Gogh

Students studied about Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, "Starry, Starry Night". They learned about the parts of a landscape (foreground, middleground, background and horizon line), and created a landscape in the style of Van Gogh’s painting.

Standards: 2.1 Color, 2.2 Line, 2.3 Texture, 2.6 Composition, 5 Critical Response, 8 Concepts of Style


*Alicia*	*Carrie*	*Olivia*

Lesson on color mixing, types of lines and shapes

Using tempera paint, students learned about mixing primary colors and painting shapes. Some of them then drew straight, zigzag, and curvy lines on top of the shapes.

Art Standards: 1.1 Variety of media; 2.1 Color; 2.2 Line; 2.4 Shape; 2.5 Pattern; 2.6 Repetition/Composition

Alivia

Andrew

Daynah

Joey

Lesson on drawing animals through observation

Students learned about living things and their habitats in science class. In art class, they learned to draw animals by observing the curvy, straight and zigzag lines and outlined the shapes with their fingers first. They then did a contour drawing of the animal. The model they used was borrowed from Mr. David Beauregard, biology teacher at Gardner High School.

Art Standards: 2.2 Line, 2.4 Shape, 10 Inter-disciplinary learning

Science Standards: 7 Life Science: living things and their surroundings

Emily

Seamus

Lesson on portraits

After viewing portraits painted by the Masters, second graders examined their own facial features in individual mirrors. Using these observation skills, they drew these self-portraits.

Art Standards: 1.3 Art vocabulary; 2.2 Line; 2.4 Shape; 3.1 Direct observation; 5.0 Critical response; 5.2 Classifying art into categories; 5.3 Describing differences and presenting a personal response

Jaime

Painting and drawing

These are a variety of paintings and drawings that were created in art class.

Art Standards: 1.1 Variety of media; 2.1 Color; 2.2 Line, 2.4 Shape and form, 2.6 Composition, 3.3 Memory and imagination

Donghyun

Nicole

Jaime

Emily

Thomas

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