I recently came across Patty Baker‘s beautiful paintings on Pinterest. I loved her painting of a sunset with birds in silhouette. I thought the telephone poles going off in the distance would be a great opportunity to teach my older class about spacing in one point perspective. We started by painting a sunset with tempera paint. I […]
This week, the K-5th grade classes drew scarecrows and learned about mixing secondary colors. I did a guided drawing of the scarecrow on the board to get them started. They were only given the primary colors, white and black. Their assignment was to mix all the secondary colors to paint their scarecrows. Some students really […]
This week both my 3rd-5th and my 6th and up groups learned about pop artist, Roy Lichtenstein. We looked at his work and discussed the graphic line and how he showed emotion in his cartoon-like faces. I showed students the basics of facial proportion to get them started. We looked at ways to show emotion […]
My Kindergarten -2nd grade group have been working on Pop Art Self Portrait Collages. We began by drawing a self portrait on white drawing paper. Then, we cut out our face, hair, and shirt to make templates for collage. Since we were studying Pop Art, students were free to use whatever colors they wanted. We […]
I love how these clipper ships turned out! The drawing of the ships was a bit more technical than our usual projects, and watercolor is much more difficult to handle than most people think. Even with those challenges, both classes did a fabulous job! I guided them through the drawing of the boat but allowed […]
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