This Year's Art Room Installation

By Brendan G.

Purchase School is so creative and imaginative that we make giant sculptures out of art materials. First it was the 2007 tree, the 2008 dragon, the 2009 bird, the 2010 lion, 2011 elephant, the 2012 giraffe and now… the 2013 Kangaroo with its own Joey. The kangaroo is made with chicken wire for its body and a carpet tube for its long neck and tail. Then three 5^th grade students (Maria D., Lucia D., Samantha A.) created the baby Joey with packaging balloons for its head, colored the eye and nose, and got cardboard for the body, feet and hands. They drew paws on the hands and feet using a black sharpie marker. So, what do you think next year’s will be?     

 

By Samantha A., Lucia D.,  Maria D.
We built a baby Joey out of brown construction paper, cardboard and other supplies like sharpies, markers and tape. We made a 3 dimensional head and a flat body of cardboard. The baby Joey has a hook on the back of him to make him hold on to his mom's paw. A special day will come where it will be baby Joey's birthday! We are working on things to make Joey's birthday a special day, it is his 4-month birthday party soon. We hope you can all attend Joey's birthday party (Joey does too!). It will be a fun day for Joey he’ll have on a party hat just to celebrate! 

 

 

* Click here to see last year's giraffe installation *

Flying Colors

 

"Study nature, love nature, stay close 

to nature. It will never fail you."

                                                                                         - Frank Lloyd Wright

WHY DO KIDS LIKE LEARNING ART?

 By Maya S., Tori F., Daniella Z., 4C

Art is a great way to express your feelings and show all of your imagination! This year the school had its first Art Museum, which was a HUGE success, we had many kids get super creative and use recycled items - from bottle caps to old pizza boxes! To get all these awesome artists' attention Ms. Palefsky says… “My hands are on my knees, I’m focused and ready!” and everyone sings back to her.

        In 2^nd grade everyone focuses on a big project, drawing their self-portrait. Drawing a self-portrait is looking in a mirror and drawing your face. You first draw an oval or circle. Then you place the ears on the side of your face. Ms. Palefsky always said to put your eyes by your ears. Then you add all the other features of the face. Then you end up taking home a masterpiece!
        

      Near and far, that’s what the 3^rd grade is doing. The 3^rd grade is working and learning about landscapes (near and far).  It starts out wide and biG until you can’t see it anymore. You can make train tracks or a road in L.A. To make something look near you, you draw BIG. To make something look far away you draw it small. At the end of the year you come out of school knowing a new technique in art!

       How do you make purple? The 4^th grade is learning the color wheel. To think of the color wheel, you can think of the fish swimming in the sea. There are 3 big fish which stand for the primary colors. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. Then there are 3 secondary colors. The secondary colors are purple, orange and green. This year all the 4^th graders will know how to mix colors and make other colors!

        5^th grade is the head of the school. Every year the 5^th graders make tiles. They can make it about anything they want. Like what they LOVE or a self-portrait.  Another reason why the 5^th graders make the tiles is to mark their remembrance. Whenever we walk down and up the stairs we see the beautiful tiles! We can’t wait until we get to hear everybody talk about our tiles!

       In all this work we’d like to honor Ms. Palefsky in helping us learn and do all this art. We’d also like to thank her for all the options she gives us. The art room is the place that we can express ourselves and express our feelings.  And with these skills we can make artwork for any occasion! J J  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”

                                                                                                               

                                                                                                            -     Charles Horton Cooley