This is one of those projects that look simple but are filled with learning opportunities. Atmospheric perspective is creating the illusion of depth in a painting by simulating the effect atmosphere has on the color and detail of objects. Students began by mixing tints and shades of green to paint tall redwood trees. We began […]
I wanted to start this session off with a project that is fun and not too difficult. This was just perfect! We started off by reading the book Arlo Needs Glasses by Barney Saltzberg. It tells the story of how Arlo can no longer play catch; the ball keeps hitting him in the face. Arlo […]
Chalk pastel is so messy but so worth it! Last week we learned about Edgar Degas. We read Degas and the Little Dancer. Then we drew our ballerinas on colored paper with a light colored chalk pastel. Degas used diagonals a lot in his compositions. So, we created a diagonal floor line. Students were free […]
My K-2nd grade group finished their Paul Klee Cats today. These have so much character! We drew our cats with oil pastel on brown paper and colored them with chalk pastel. I think this is one of the only projects I have repeated. It is so simple and turns out so great!
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 […]
I can’t get over how gorgeous these chalk pastel birds turned out! As I said in my last post, one of my students had been asking me to do a bird project. I found a great calendar for inspiration and had the students use chalk pastel on black paper. My 3rd-5th grade groups really did […]
One of my sweet students has been asking me all year to do a bird project. He loves birds and loves to draw them. I found a calendar with gorgeous bird photos for inspiration. I cut these out and laminated them so that each student would have their own photo to work from. I love […]
Our second day of Underwater Adventures was jelly fish day. Our 2-D project was a mixed media painting. We started with a gradient background in either blue-ish or pink-ish tempera paint. Our goal was to learn how to blend smoothly, moving from one color to the next without a hard line. While our backgrounds were […]
This week students created these fabulous frogs with chalk pastel. I recently found a beautiful frog calendar and knew it would make a great art project. The frogs had such great shapes and colors. I also wanted to give students an opportunity to draw from a photograph. I laminated the photographs in the calendar so […]
We only had about 30-45 min to complete one last project for this session. Picasso Roosters were perfect. We looked at pictures of Picasso’s “Rooster” and talked about how he drew multiple views of an object at one time. The students enjoyed the animated look of the rooster. These were drawn in white oil pastel […]
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