GRAPHIC ARTS . . . A digital "Love" sculpture!

In 1964, American artist, Robert Indiana, designed this Love design for the Museum of Modern Art as their Christmas card. The iconic image shows the four letters of the work LOVE stacked together with the letter "O" at a tilt. This same design became an image for a US postage stamp and then as a sculpture in 1970. His sculpted word designs are now on display all over the world. Fascinated with letters and numbers, Robert Indiana is a self-proclaimed "American painter of signs."

As graphic artists, we often look at letters and numbers as an important feature of any design. Each lower school graphic artist selected a four letter word, such as LOVE, that they identified with. Using Adobe Illustrator, we learned how to work with shapes, colors and text to create a colorful design with our words.

Just as Indiana transformed his flat design into sculpted art, we then used the tools in Adobe Illustrator to play around with 3-Dimensional images of our flat designs. In this digital transformation, we learned how to make objects move forward and back in their orientation, so that each part of our 3D design looks like it is supported by the forms underneath. Here are a few examples of our designs. To see all the graphic arts work, follow this link to the Ranney Home page of artsonia...
http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=114839

Ava G., 5th grade 

Ava G., 5th grade

Gwendolen K, 5th grade

Gwendolen K., 5th grade

Petra D., 5th grade

Petra D., 5th grade

Rianna K., 5th grade

Rianna K., 5th grade

Hamid K., 4th grade

Hamid K., 4th grade

PRE-KINDERGARTEN . . . Spring Flowers!

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso painted this sweet picture of hands holding a bouquet of flowers. With a few colors of paint, a small brush, and a couple of thin markers, Pre-Kindergarten artists created their own version of this famous bouquet.

We started off by tracing our hand on paper. Then we were each given a palette of tempera colors on a paper plate. We painted circles of color for the centers of four flowers. Using the brush, we painted lines around the centers just like you might around a sun. This gave us the same look as Picasso's flowers. We used markers to add stems, and as Picasso did in his painting, we added our signature at the bottom.



Here are a few more of our Spring bouquets! To see all of our flower paintings, follow this link to Artsonia.com  http://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=114839