Third Grade

Third grade completed their unit Inca, Maya, Aztec and created masks.  They were able to create masks based on their civilization. They also completed terracotta pinch pots as part of this unit.  

 

 

Third grade selected their favorite artist from the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist era.  They painted a canvas with acrylic paint.  Stay tune for Surrealism.

   

Second Grade

Second grade finished the 3-dimensional clay elephants from India.  Then they completed the Chinese kimono and hanfu using colored pencils and silk fabric. The second grade also completed the Chinese four season  with Indian ink, Chinese water colors, and spray bottles.

First Grade

The students studied Kandinsky in an individual and collaborative piece that will be up for auction at the Knight of All Knights Auction this weekend. They used watercolor pencils with watercolors on square hard stock.  Each student created their own Kandinsky-inspired square.

Preschool and Pre-K

The Preschool and Pre-K students used oil pastels with watercolor to create these images based on the book “Singing in the Rain.” The technique we used was to blow through a straw to create a splattered paint look.

   

The Pre-K students first drew a study of the giraffe and then moved on to watercolor hard stock. They recreated their giraffe with color pencils, watercolors and Mod Podge.

 

I recently was proud to present at the 2018 ICE Conference (Illinois Computing Educators) in Schaumburg, IL.  Our presentation was titled “Art & Music Meet Coding” and we had many art and music educators attend this conference.

The Quest Academy lower school student artists were featured at the Palatine Library for the months of February and March!

Third Grade

Students completed their stained glass while looking at Frank Lloyd Wright and Marc Chagall. We created both windows and candle vases for moms and dad. 

   

 

We currently are finishing up our mosaic’s while looking at the Inca, Maya and Aztec art. We are getting ready to start our masks in clay once mosaics are completed.

   

Second Grade

Students created Irises, borrowing from Vincent Van Gogh. The students used mixed medium painted tissue, oil pastels, and mod podge. This assignment will be used in a cross curricular project for coding with lower school Music. Second grade have been transported to India, studying elephants. We will be creating our elephants in both in paint and clay.

First Grade

Students read the “The Broken Truth” while creating their own Aboriginal influenced turtles in clay. First grade”s beautiful haystacks are displayed on the first floor, influenced by Claude Monet. We’ve also finished up our “Days the Crayons Quit” abstract trees. Stay tuned as these will be displayed for the Beluga Whale’s auction project. Currently first grade is completing our abstract Sunsets with mixed medium.

Kindergarten

Students completed their Pablo Picasso influenced Penguins. You are able to view your children’s art on the first floor. We have also completed our mixed medium, “The Goldfish”, inspired by Matisse. Students looked at Paul Klee’s abstract cityscape, borrowing shapes and perspective to create a oil pastel . Currently we are looking at Dr Seuss “The Cat and the Hat”. The medium the students will be using is clay. 

  

    

Pre- Kindergarten

Students completed their ”Starry Night” snow globes influenced by Van Gogh. They also completed their “What a Wonderful World” project using Japanese Marbling and glitter on scratch paper. Both these projects were cross-curricular with the space unit. Currently you can view “Blackbird Fly” on the first floor to celebrate MLK and Black History month. Students will be learning about Henri Rousseau and read Where the Wild Things Are while creating shapes first with pastels and then using strips of colored paper to create an rain forest.

Preschool

Students completed beautiful over sized mittens. This project was cross curricular with music and displayed at our winter concert. Children created their very own painted pinch pots which were sent home to mom and dads for the holidays.Students worked with Japanese marbling and made their own abstract art while enjoying  Japanese Meditation Music. Students also created Black Birds based while listening to the Beatles song.

 

Third Grade

Students have begun creating their cross curricular abstract maps while learning about Jasper John and his map of the states made in 1961. We covered what was taking place at that time in the United States touching on MLK and how that was represented through his art in representing the Southern States as  more chaotic. I asked the students to think about something they thought was relevant in our current world affairs such as a natural disaster or political conflict and then think about how you would represent that through color or brush strokes.The medium will be  a study in pastels, then large hard stock with acrylic paint.

   

2nd Grade

Students are creating shapes borrowing from Gustav Klimt.The students are going to transport in time while creating whimsical shapes painting with gold leaf. This assignment will be used in a cross curricular project for coding with lower school Music.The medium used will be acrylic paint on canvas.

    

1st Grade 

Students are learning about artist Henri Matisse’s cut-outs while learning about the human figure. Students will learn basic proportions while creating their own figures doing an action pose.  They all selected something they enjoy like dance, sports event or simply playing outside. Our next project we will begin exploring Japan and “The Great Wave of Kanagawa” This project will be mixed medium using some printmaking technique.

Kindergarten

Students are just finishing up our beautiful fall landscape, influenced by blue trees, borrowing from artist Gauguin. We will begin exploring the “Noisy Paint Box” while creating Kandinsky inspired shapes while listening to classical music.The medium used is large hard stock with acrylic paint.

Pre-K

Students will be learning about Kandinsky while creating shapes first with pastels and then with finger paint. We will be listening to Classical music while celebrating various shapes creating those shapes with our hands first in the air then on paper.

  

Preschool

Students will be looking at geometric shapes while borrowing from abstract artist Hans Hofmann. The medium used will be mixed medium both sand, paint geometric shapes created with different sponges.

  

We began this year exploring all our class animals by doing a charcoal study and then moving into a new medium. Third grade is currently working on their habitats, tree frogs are in a rain forest and wolves in a forest. They had an opportunity to use mixed medium: acrylic paint, Mod Podge, and textured paper.  They reviewed the artist, Henry Rousseau.

Second grade just completed their tiger sand pandas in Asia. They did vine charcoal study and then moved to canvas and acrylic  creating abstract animals . We reviewed Henry Rousseau and Picasso and African masks. We spoke about symmetry  and  creating our animal one dimensional We completed this project and have now moved into our Gauguin influenced cello. We are working with Indian ink and Chinese watercolor. This project will be a cross curricular project with Music where students will be receiving coding with chords with Mrs. Hasty.

    

First Grade started with looking at their Beluga whales and Dolphins using both pencils and watercolor . They created these animals in their habitat. We looked at Marc Chagall and some of his whimsical animals as we created our own animals. First grade then moved into portraits while looking at Modigliani, creating long S shaped curve similar to the trade mark of Modigliani portraits. We used mirrors attempting to replicate proportions. We looked at artist Chuck Close to create a graph to help with proportions. We did this in a wash using Indian ink.

   

   

We currently moved into figure looking at Henri Matisse  cut out’s. We are looking at ways to create  figure by using two contrast colors.