Original Works- Deerfield

Original Works

Original Works is a fundraising program that transforms each child’s artwork onto individual, quality products that could be shared with family and friends. Below is a link to the website. The money earned will return back to the Deerfield School.

 https://www.originalworks.com/about-original-works/

Students worked on the following projects:

1. Kindergarten self portraits

2. First grade- Patterned Fish

3. Second grade -  flowers

4. Third Grade- Family portraits 

4. Fourth grade - Optical Illusion or Choice

5. Fifth Grade - Choice

Fifth Grade- Hogwarts Ties

The Fifth Grade at Hanlon has been reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. At the end of the reading unit, students celebrate during Hogwarts Day. This day is composed of a series of events related to the text just read. In art class, students designed ties for each house. The ties were worn during the Hogwarts Day activities.

 

5th Grade Gelatin Printing

Gelatin printing is a form of monoprinting in which a gelatin slab is used as a printing 'plate' in along with  standard water soluble printing inks to create images. We used tempra paint to create our prints. When textures and stencils are applied to the plate it leaves marks on the inked plate. Overlapping multiple colors and textures allow for the prints to become more and more interesting.

TRY THIS AT HOME 

You can use any shallow container.  

We used these 25oz. containers from Stop and Shop.

You want your gelatin plate to be about 1/4 thick, so for these containers we used the following recipe:

• 1/2 cup glycerine (you can find a small bottle at CVS or a large one online)

• 2 tbsp unflavored gelatin

• mix the gelatin and glycerine together, then add

• 1/2 cup boiling water

Stir gently to avoid making bubbles. Let your gelatin harden overnight, or speed up the process in the refrigerator. If your plate breaks while you are using it, simply wash off any extra paint and pop the jello in your microwave for about one minute.  Allow it to harden before you use it again.  Because of the glycerine, these plates will last for months without refrigeration. 

5th Grade-Fall Leaves

Fall Leaves

In these Works of art students in the 5th grade classes focused on one of the Principles of Art -emphasis. Emphasis is defined as the focus point in an artwork. An artist can create emphasis through cropping, color choice, and direction of line to name a few.

In this art project students chose an image of fall leaves. They were asked to crop the image using a viewfinder to create a point of emphasis. A viewfinder is a tool used by an artist to look through to help focus on the object they are drawing.  After the sketching, students used marker and oil pastel to enhance their artwork allowing the point of emphasis to clearly stand out.

5th Grade Perspective Drawing

Perspective Drawing

In this project 5th grade students learn about one-point perspective.

Students gained inspiration for their cities from the contemporary artist Stephen Wiltshire. Mr. Wiltshire is an artist with autism who has the amazing ability to draw landscapes from memory. Using the rules of perspective drawing, Mr. Wiltshire creates large-scale realistic drawings of cities.

Using the same rules of perspective, the fifth grade-students created their cities. First students created a vanishing point in the center of their page. Students learned that in a one point perspective drawing, the sides of the buildings should be drawn as through they are converging together towards the vanishing point. Students also noticed, as objects went back in space, or closer to the vanishing point, they appeared smaller.