Dubai in the Future: Creating Cityscapes

How can we use shapes to create a cityscape?

A warm up: creating building shapes with our bodies. 

Our window looks like this now! 

Using our imagination to draw what we think Dubai will look like when we are older: 

Grade 3 Urban Communities

During the Grade 3's Unit on Urban communities, all of the grade 3 classes came for an extra visit to the art room to learn about drawing cityscapes. They are doing swimming this quarter, so it was a treat to see them.

We looked at shapes in many of the popular buildings that are in Dubai today. We also looked at how they could use organic and geometric shapes to design new buildings that might be built in the future.  I challenged the Grade 3 students to draw Dubai in 5 years. Students then went back to their classes to finish their project with their classroom teachers. It was very exciting to see these grade 3 students this week coming into the art room with magnificent cityscapes!

Joan Miro Inspired Art

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After viewing some of Miro's art this week, Grade three classes were very excited to discover an artist that was so fun and intriguing! They loved that he used many kinds of geometric and organic shapes and many kinds of lines in his work. They noticed many other things about his work too. We did a visible thinking routine, See, Think, Wonder when we viewed The Garden. Below is an animated version of the original painting and some of the students thoughts:

• Black lines that make the bird stand out.' -They learned that it's called emphasis when an artist makes something stand out. 
• 'I see some of the shapes and colours in The Garden repeated' -This made their eyes look all around the painting. They decided that they would use repetition in their work too. 
• 'I see overlapping shapes.' -They were fun to make. Each time two shapes overlapped, they made a new one. 
• 'I wonder why he paints like this.' - Students thought he might have done this painting when he was just very young because they had learned that he was 7 when he started making art. They were surprised to find out that he was an adult when he painted it. Students loved how all of his paintings made them so curious.They had many ideas about what the symbols might mean! 

Here are some picture of the students Joan Miro inspired creations. We will choose our favorite parts and create a final piece of art next week.

Final Miro Art

Line or Shape?

Grade 3 learned the difference in a shape and a line this week. We used our bodies to make lots of lines. Some classes even broke out into a line dance! There was the peaceful-wavy-line dance and the energetic-zig-zag-line dance! What fun! In the end we took the start of a line and joined it to the end of the line and made a SHAPE!

A line has a start and an end point.

 

 

When we join them together we make a shape.

Here are some pictures of students completing a pipe cleaner challenge: Each student had to create new things with the organic shape that they made from a pipecleaner: Look at the creative responses!

 

Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life

What better way to review the ELEMENTS OF ART than to use them to make our own art! We looked at Gustav Klimt’s “Tree of Life” and noticed the tree’s spiralling lines, patterns, texture and shapes.

After a lesson on painting techniques, Grade 4 students went away to create their own tree. We noticed how the lines made our eyes move all over the page! Students learned how to make movement in their work.

Tree of Life -Gustav Klimt

Have a look at the display outside the new art room!

Landscapes of Dubai

Grade examined the lines and shapes in the Urban landscape of Dubai. We have been completing sketches and drawings in a variety of mediums such as pencil, oil and chalk pastel and marker. Below are some of our interpretations of what we think Dubai will look like in 5 years!

Matisse Collage

Students in Grade 4 classes studied Matisse's collages. We learned about composition when we made a class collage. Later, we used his style to make covers for our Art books. We also learned how to cut letters from paper and to overlap shapes and lines.

Dubai in 5 Years

Grade 3 s are currently investigating urban communities in their unit of inquiry. In art we are looking at the buildings in Dubai. Here we are drawing buildings that we see in Dubai and buildings that we imagine may be built in the future! We are using a new medium: oil pastels and chalk pastels to colour them in. Here is what 3JH completed in our first class. We will post the finished products when they are done!

Paul Klee Inspired Portraits

Grade 5 students are exploring the power that lines and shape have to create emotions in art. We have explored art by a Swiss expressionist painter and graphic artist, Paul Klee. We investigated the style shapes and lines that made us feel positive emotions and negative emotions. We are now using oil pastels to create our own self portraits.

• Below are two paintings by Paul Klee.
• What kinds of lines do you see?
• What kinds of shapes are in the art? How do the paintings make you feel?

'Woman in Peasant Dress'

'Siblings'

Share your answers in the comment box below!
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Here are a few pictures of some finished art!
Can you tell what the feeling is that the artist expressed?