This week we have been learning about Impressionist artist, Claude Monet. These were done by my K-2nd grade group. They were so enthusiastic about this project and loved the results they could get from chalk pastel. I love that they learned about Impressionism, chalk pastel, and perspective while having a great time. Who wouldn’t want […]
I really love the work of Marc Chagall. I was fortunate enough to see his work in person in Mexico City years ago. They are absolutely magical! If you haven’t seen his work here is a link. My 3rd-5th grade groups made some “dreamscapes” based on the works of Marc Chagall. We began by reading […]
My 6th grade and up group have been working on these mixed media trees for the last couple of weeks. The focus of this project was recognizing complimentary colors, identifying the subtleties of warm/cool colors, and using gel medium with acrylic paint to build up layers. Students started by choosing a warm or cool color […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week my K-2nd graders painted sailboats. This project was a lesson on perspective, how objects appear smaller and move closer to the horizon line as they recede in space. We also read about Winslow Homer and looked at some of his seascapes for inspiration. We drew our sailboats with black oil pastel and painted […]
There are a lot of skills packed in to this fun project! We started with textured painted paper, which later would be sandy hills. Then we painted a colorful sunset sky. Clouds were added to the sky after a discussion about objects receding in space, how objects close to us appear larger and get smaller […]
So, with a few early finishers and most of the students still working on their rainforest collages, I needed an easy to set up project that wouldn’t interfere with the collage work. This project was perfect and taught about drawing buildings in 3-D. I first passed out an inspiration sheet with pictures of famous sky […]
The older classes started this session by painting landscapes in the style of Vincent van Gogh. I brought in several examples of van Gogh’s landscapes. Students each chose a landscape to use for inspiration. We mixed tempera paint with wheat paste to thicken it. Starting with just a few guide lines drawn in oil pastel, […]
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