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 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 […]
I was recently given a huge box of beautiful pears. I brought a bag in to serve as a simple still life for those who finished their blue paintings early. This project taught both contour drawing from observation and adding shading and highlights. Students drew with black crayon, painted with tempera paint, and finally added […]
Our theme this week was Picasso’s Blue Period. For the 3rd-5th grade classes, we did blue portraits, exploring tints and shades of one blue color. I went over proportions of a face but let them decide who the portrait would be of, themselves or an invented character. They also got to decide the location of […]
My K-2nd grade group finished their Spat the Cats this week. I love all the different scenarios they created for their cats. What creativity! Even though we used the same shapes and colors to make them, they each have their own personality. The google eyes were a big hit. : )
I don’t usually don’t do a “back to school” project, but this Splat the Cat project was hard to resist. I have several new students in my K-2nd grade class, and I wanted to put their minds at ease with a funny book and a no fail project. We first read the book, Splat the […]
Our last class of the World Traveler workshop took us to Tanzania. We read The Watcher by Jeanette Winter. This book tells the story of Jane Goodall’s childhood and her life spent living with and studying chimpanzees. Next we drew and painted a chimpanzee in a tree. We drew with a large black crayon and […]
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 […]
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 […]
For our last class of the year, I wanted to do something loose and fun. I’ve been wanting to do this one for awhile. Fred Babb was an artist from California. I purchased a book of his posters and placed some of them on the board. They are all bright and loose portraits and feature […]
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