Frosty Frames

First grade artists practiced painting, cutting, and gluing skills to create snowmen paintings. Second and third graders learned how to make their snowmen go "off the page" to create an interesting composition.

Colorful Creations

Primary students have been learning about color mixing. They created these compositions using only crayons in primary colors BLUE, YELLOW, andRED and their creativity. They then explored with color mixing to create the intermediate colors : PURPLE, GREEN, and ORANGE.

All about the Lines ! :)

At the beginning of the year, all students created sketchbooks to keep art class notes and sketches organized. Sketchbooks are also a place to practice drawing skills if students complete a project early. The first element of art that we learned about this year was LINE. NTA artists of all ages learned about many types of line and how this simple element can create amazing designs. Check out some of the drawings of our primary and intermediate students' sketchbooks.

Kindergarten

In October, kindergarten students read books in class about monsters. In art, Kindergarten and 1st grade students read the book "Jeremy Draws a Monster" by Peter McCarty. They learned about organic shapes and used yarn to trace random organic shapes on paper. They then turned these shapes into monsters using crayon.

Next, students learned how to create circles, rectangles, and triangles by cutting square paper. They learned about masks and created their own cut paper masks while practicing their cutting and gluing skills.

First grade students created their own masks using similar paper bending and folding techniques, but they also used texture rubbing to create bumpy looking faces for their monster masks.