Elements of Design
LINE, COLOR, SHAPE, VALUE, TEXTURE, SPACE & FORM
Encourage creativity
Encouraging your children to harness their creativity can be beneficial in so many ways. It can help them learn effective problem-solving skills and inspire new ways of looking at the world; it can also help foster mental growth. Allowing your children time to explore their creative interests, whether it’s art, music, writing, movement or something else, it will help them both in and out of the classroom.
~SES Art Programs Purpose~
The Art program is designed around the National Art Standards of learning. Student will have "I can" Statements they will try to accomplish through art. Students will have the chance to create & express their own style in art making. Students will also use their critical thinking skills to explore, connect and identify different art techniques and ways to use the Elements of Art in their art making.
Check out these fun ART web sites for Kids!
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​Jackson Pollock was an American artist, whose painting style combined the free flow of paint with flinging, dripping, pouring, and spattering on a horizontal canvas. You can follow his abstract example by doing your own splattering and spattering on the computer screen with a mouse. A click changes the color in this Flash game and you can wildly move the mouse around to create wonderful patterns
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​From one master to the next: Using this uncomplicated drawing app, you can create figures using elements of Pablo Picasso’s painting style. To get an idea, take a look at a few ‘Picassoheads’ in the Gallery section. Simply use the mouse to drag, drop, and arrange the elements to create heads.
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GettyGames (Getty Museum)​This art and educational website is part of the world’s wealthiest art institution ““ The J. Paul Getty Trust. If you are in Los Angeles, there’s the J. Paul Getty Museum to visit. GettyGames gives you four art games and one activity to spend time on. Detail Detective teaches you to pay attention to details; Math Madness is about memory skills; Switch is about spotting the differences; and the Jigsaw Puzzles are what they suggest. All games are based on images taken from the world of art and architecture.
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​The Met Museum of Art:​Come and explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art