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 […]
Over the last few snowy/icy weeks, my 3rd-5th grade groups painted these amazing giraffes. Students drew from photographs of giraffes. I am trying to wean this group from directed drawing. There is a lot of groaning when they hear they have to draw on their own, but they almost always surprise themselves. We drew these […]
This week two of my classes finished their chameleon collage project. To begin this project, we read The Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle. We then created painted papers, one in cool greens and one in warm colors. The next step was creating our rainbow backgrounds. We used my favorite new art supply, Stabilo Woodies to […]
I knew this project would take some time, but the recent snowy weather didn’t help. After working on them for one last class, I decided to send them home. Even unfinished, though, I think they turned out great. They came up with some great patterns in their squares.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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