Third Grade Art

Ravinia Third Grade Art Thus Far...

Now that I have my blog up and running, I am going to show you what we've been up to so far this year.  It's been an exciting year so far!  Students studied Andy Warhol and made some amazing Pop Art postage stamps.  Around Thanksgiving we learned the song "Over the River and Through the Woods" and created some block prints to go with our song.

Andy Warhol Stamps

Andy Warhol is one of the most well known artists of the Pop Art movement. He changed the art world when he took common everyday items and exhibited them as art in and of themselves. His Campbell's soup can is one of his most popular pieces.

Students chose an everyday object and drew it onto a stamp and painted it with watercolors. By putting it on a stamp, we transformed it's ordinary quality to special. The Post Office only puts unique and special people and objects on their stamps!

Over the River

Third grade students studied the music set to Lydia Maria Child’s popular Thanksgiving poem, Over The River And Through The Wood.  The poem was divided into one sentence phrases and distributed among the students.  Using their special line as inspiration, students created a drawing to reflect the poem’s phrase.  Printmaking techniques such as positive and negative space, image transfer, reverse imaging, and inking/printing were applied to create their finished product.