Artist of the Week 12/13/17

There was a clear choice for this weeks Artist of the Week. Although the 4th Grade has been making some really awesome penguin collages that we should be looking for in the hallways, and 5th Grade snowflakes should be appearing shortly, 3rd Grade just created some really amazing collages using their experiments with color mixing. At this point 3rd Graders have a good grasp of the Primary Colors, Red, Yellow and Blue, and have mixed their own Secondary Colors, Orange, Green, and Purple. We used Orange for our class pumpkin patches and now have used Green and Purple for these first snow collages. When 3rd Graders mixed their purple I encouraged them to create Tints of Purple by adding White. Ben T. in Mrs. Walsh’s 3rd Grade Class did such an amazing job with his background I contemplated giving him the honor of Artist of the Week before he put all his pieces together! All 3rd Graders really impressed me with their collages, but I picked Ben T. as Artist of the Week, not only for his background, but for the trees he cut with different Greens and his intricate snowflakes. He’s also about as nice a guy as you could ask for in Art Class. Nice Work Ben!