Mr. Delahunt's

Fourth Grade Art Program

Lessons this year include:

1. Further study of the "elements of art".
   See the ArtPage article on the elements of art.
   
2. Further study of the "principles of design".
   See the ArtPage articles on the principles of design.
   
3. Arizona's art heritage. Fourth graders at Sonoran Sky will take a field trip to the Heard Museum to enjoy a program about the arts of two of Arizona's Native American tribes, the Hopi and the Navajo.
   See the ArtPage article on Native American art.
   
4. Realism and abstraction. Please visit a gallery of drawings made by students in groups A, B, C, D, E, and S when they studied realism and abstraction. Five pictures from those galleries are below.
   

    

   Trevor, An Eagle Landing on Snow, from Realistic to Abstract   

    

   Elysha, Brown and White Dog, from Realistic to Abstract    

   Kevin, Parrot, from Realistic to Abstract   

   
   

   Ben, Owl in a Tree, from Realistic to Abstract    

    

   Taylor, House Cat, from Realistic to Abstract    

1. Art in context.
   
2. Game theory & maze design.
   
3. Ceramics. Students will make pottery using pinch, coil and slab construction methods, and sculptures of desert tableaus with ceramic clay.
   First work on a potter's wheel. Our school has two potter's wheels, and every fourth grader works on those wheels once during an art class, and once with professional potter Lisa Howe, who has volunteered to work with fourth graders every year since 1997.
   See ArtPage articles on ceramics, pinch, coil, and slab construction; sculpture, tableau, and potter's wheel.
   
4. Drawing the human figure.
   See ArtPage articles on drawing, figure, and model.

Here are links to pages about the program for other grades, and what we emphasize in each grade:

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