Arts Night 2016 Activities

Local Contemporary artist, Patrick Smith created portraits of students!

Check out his artwork http://patricksmithart.com/

Families and students painted with watercolors !

Families and students drew with sidewalk chalk, painted with water and blew bubbles!

 Students explored the Music Jungle, playing drums with Ms. McDougle!

 Students learned a different way of painting, with palette knives on canvas, with artist, Meghan Narayan!

 Students explored the comics and music of Brandon Combs!

 Our talented musicians, dancers and actors performed in the Talent Show!

Check out South Lake Students' Artwork at Lakeforest Mall's MCPS Arts Festival April 19-24th

2nd Grade Skyline Cityscapes

Second graders began by discussing what they knew about communities, and what makes up communities. Then they looked at artworks noticing all of them were pictures of citscapes. This inspired them to design their own community as a city. They named their cities and then transferred them to a printing plate. Then they looked at artworks that showed skylines and reflections in the water, noticing that they were symmetrically balanced.

Then students created a background using watercolors to convey a time of day. Students used an incised printmaking process to add their cityscape. They added one print on the skyline and one flipped for a reflection.


Then students collaborated to add their mini communities to create a class community 

Stephen Wilshire creates city drawing sfrom memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryQ0tfjXnkY

Art Speaks

1st Grade Reggie Laurent-Inspired paintings

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First graders learned about a contemporary abstract artist who was also a self-taught artist: Reggie Laurent. They analyzed his artwork finding different elements of art: line, shape, color. Students followed Reggie's process for creating his paintings. 

To learn more about Reggie & see more of his artwork