Preschool Composition with String

 STRING ART

Preschool Artists created a composition by attaching yarn (various colors, textures and thicknesses) to contact paper. They practiced using scissors to cut the yarn into smaller sizes. The Artists chose a background color to complete their overall design.

Preschool Shape Collages

Preschool Artists listened to the story Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh. They observed the shapes in the illustrations and how different shapes placed together can create new shapes. 

                                                                                               

Children worked together to sort Triangles, Circles and Squares. They used the sorted shapes to design their own collage inspired by Mouse Shapes. 

5/6 Neurographic Art

Neurographic Art was designed and formalized in 2014 by Russian psychologist Pavel Piskarev. Pavel’s defined Neurographic Art as a creative method for self discovery. It helps to evolve our reality by engaging our emotional and aesthetic intelligence.

Pavel believed that creative processes engage additional neurons making new connections and that those connections create energy. There are multiple reasons behind the act of being creative. The process can enhance your ability to focus,  acquire new skills, improve decision making, and increase information retention—in all areas of your life. 

Fifth and Sixth grade Artists followed these adapted principles in a more simplistic and meditative practice. The process became highly relaxing and nourishing to our creative spirit.

Objectives

• Practice relaxation through art. 

• Experience a creative process that focuses upon the artist’s use of intuitive response to develop the imagery. 

• Create art using simple supplies and, if additional supplies are available, expand the project.

 

National Art Standards 

AI.1 The student will apply creative thinking to original artistic works. 

AI.2 The student will identify and apply steps of a creative process to develop ideas and artwork. 

AI.12 The student will select and apply elements of art and principles of design to communicate meaning in works of art. 

AI.15 The student will exercise increasing skill and control in the use of media and techniques.

 AI.16 The student will use a variety of two dimensional, three-dimensional, and contemporary media to create works of Art.

3/4 Stick Weaving - Ojo de Dios

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL MEANING AND ORIGIN OF An OJO DE DIOS (GOD’S EYE)?

Traditionally, a God’s Eye was a spiritual symbol, and the weaving process was reflective and meditative.  The points of a God’s Eye represent the four elements of nature: earth, fire, air and water, and the center of the ornament represents the eye of God, and is believed to have the power to see and understand things that the human eye cannot.  

WHAT IS AN OJO DE DIOS?

Ojo de Dios is Spanish for “Eye of God”.  

It is a spiritual ornament made by weaving several colors of yarn around a wooden cross. The cross is typically made from sticks found in nature or used with wooden craft sticks. 

Third and Fourth grade Artists practiced their weaving skills through this process.