Four Corners students explore art styles – Superior Telegram

SUPERIOR — Artists at Four Corners Elementary School have been focusing on the elements of line, shape and color, and exploring different art techniques. We have also been examining different artists and looking at and talking and their work.

Kindergarten artists have been drawing using lines and shapes. They created lions based on the art of Henri Rousseau. They also used watercolor techniques using cool and warm colors.

Students also had to draw a self-portrait and experimented with splatter painting to create a contrasting background with their black and white drawings.

Second grade artists have been using line and shape to draw monsters and used complementary colors. They also cut organic and geometric shapes to create collages based on the artwork of Henri Matisse.

Third grade artists had to carve their creature drawings into Styrofoam and used printmaking techniques to create a print of their creature using markers and water.

Fourth grade artists looked at the art of Chris Uphues to use line and shape to create different cartoon expressions and personify their objects.

Fifth grade looked at the art of Jasper Johns and had to create abstract numbers using abstraction and color.

Kerri Gordon is an art specialist with the Superior School District.

This story is part of the Telegram’s efforts to showcase the work of young people in the community. For more information on those efforts, contact reporter Maria Lockwood at

mlockwood@superiortelegram.com.