3-Third+Grade

//** This year 3rd grade will be studying four units throughout the school year. These units are: **// //** Realism **// //** Impressionism **// //** Expressionism **// //** Abstraction **// Each unit is a study of an art style and will consist of several projects completed throughout the marking period.

In Quarter 1, students will begin with both a study of Realism and the work of Wayne Thiebaud. Using a crayon resist technique, their first assignment was to create cupcakes similar to that of the artist. Examples can be viewed below.

__**Thiebaud Cupcakes:**__

In continuing with a study of Realism, students created Landscape portraits in which they indicated a specific foreground, middle ground, and background. They also utilized a monochromatic, or values of one color, color scheme.

__**Monochromatic Landscapes:**__



In moving on to a study of Impressionism, students were introduced to the work of Gustav Klimt. They were instructed to recreated their own versions of Klimt's "Tree of Life" using only Sharpie, black and white, and warm colors. See examples below.

__**Tree of Life Composition:**__

In beginning a study of Expressionism, students in third grade created a warm/cool color composition in which they drew an animal of their choice and colored the animal in warm colors and the background in cools. Examples of completed works can be viewed below.

__**Expressive Animal Compositions:**__



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