I haven’t posted about my 6th grade and up class in a while. They have been working hard on their Chuck Close grid portraits. This project takes a lot of time but provides a lot of learning value. We first read about Chuck Close and looked at his work. I had taken pictures of each […]
Monthly Archives: December 2016
Watercolor Christmas Cards
This last week of class for the year, we made gorgeous watercolor Christmas cards. I love how they turned out, and we sure had a lot of fun making them. We got inspired by reading (singing) “Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” an illustrated version of the song. Then used Sharpie markers to draw our snow […]
Cutest Penguins Ever!
These penguins really turned out great! There were so many skills packed into this project. Last week, we painted our backgrounds with puck tempera and drew and cut our penguin shapes. This week, we drew and shaded the icebergs and cut out a beak and feet. After gluing everything down. Students chose scrap papers and […]
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